Transform Your Mind with Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Where Science Meets Soul
Therapy + Ketamine: A Safe Pathway Toward Inner Awakening
In collaboration with a medical team, Origem integrates psychotherapy and FDA-approved ketamine, creating a supportive space for insight, growth, and meaningful change.
Research shows this approach can be especially effective for persistent anxiety, depression, OCD, or PTSD, harnessing ketamine’s potent antidepressant effects and expanded consciousness to shift stuck patterns and foster internal groundedness.
Studies show that KAP can be especially impactful for individuals experiencing persistent anxiety, depression, OCD, and PTSD, helping them move forward when traditional treatments fall short.
Ketamine is a safe, legally prescribed medicine known for its rapid mood-lifting benefits, which combined with expanded states of consciousness and therapeutic support, help foster new perspectives and disrupt stuck patterns.
With the support of a medical team, Origem supports clients through their inward journey towards self-knowing and meaningful changes.
How it Works
Step 1
ESTABLISH TREATMENT
Step 2
TREATMENT COURSE
Step 3
OUTCOME MONITORING
Meet with your therapist to establish care and connect with the medical team at Journey Clinical (link). They handle eligibility, ketamine prescriptions, and medical oversight, while Origem leads the therapeutic portion of your treatment.
After a few sessions to build connection and review safety, your first ketamine dosing day is scheduled. Lozenges are delivered to your home for use on dosing days. Following each dose, preparation and integration sessions help you process insights, emotions, and patterns, with Origem guiding your therapy. Journey Clinical monitors your medical response.
Together, you and your therapist explore ways to integrate ketamine experiences into daily life and reinforce progress. Dosing sessions are typically every two weeks, adjustable based on your personalized plan to support lasting benefits. Journey Clinical monitors medical outcomes and collaborates with Origem to tailor care.
Meet Your Therapist
INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
CAMILA DE AZEVEDO
LCPC, CCATP
Welcome! I’m Camila, psychotherapist and founder of Origem Psychotherapy. Origem, or “origin” in Portuguese, grew from my belief that healing happens when we connect to our many roots.
Blending my theoretical foundation and a radical humanistic approach to therapy, my intention is to challenge rigidity, conformity and oppression. Instead, I invite us both to put on our loving, exploratory hats and dive into your inner landscape together.
I firmly believe that no one is a diagnosis; we carry stories and experiences in our bodies, and we are all afflicted by social pathologies. My role is to be a supportive container, a curious ally, and a gentle nudger, as you lead the way towards a meaningful, aligned life.
My therapeutic lens is rooted in humanistic foundations, with person-centered, narrative, and existential therapy as core pillars. I have formal training in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused CBT, and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). Although, through my own process of liberation, I’ve continued to move away from traditional Eurocentric practices with the intention of reducing harm and stigma in the field of mental health. Today, my work aims to integrate more holistic approaches, incorporating mindfulness, somatic and attachment-based therapies, as well as Internal Family Systems (IFS).
It is important to me that clients feel deeply seen as whole individuals, including the intersectionality of systemic forces that impact their existence. Guided by radical compassion and a mirroring presence, I value bringing all parts of my identity - as an immigrant, woman, lesbian, mother, Latine, and neurodivergent human. Other key aspects of my practice include intentional living, reparenting work, integrating the unconscious, and embracing the delightful absurdity of one’s life into self-created meaning.
Psychotherapy sessions are primarily offered in person at my office in Andersonville, where you may occasionally meet my highly affectionate cat, Mico. Sessions in Portuguese are also available.
Let’s Connect
5412 N Clark Street #201
Chicago, IL 60640
(312) 219-2476