Rachel Boyer, LMHC

Rachel Boyer, LMHC, is a licensed mental health counsellor based in Berlin, Massachusetts, who provides online therapy to adolescents and adults across the state through her practice, Insightful Solutions Therapy. She also offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) with Journey Clinical.

Approach

She has worked in the field for almost 20 years, in outpatient, inpatient psychiatric, residential, partial hospital and day programmes. Her therapy is integrative and action-oriented, drawing on cognitive behavioural and dialectical behaviour therapy, motivational interviewing and solution-focused therapy, with assignments inside and between sessions. She holds a master’s in counselling from Framingham State, is a Certified Professional in Mood Disorders and has trained in KAP through Fluence. In KAP a preparation session comes first. At the dosing session the client takes ketamine lozenges at home while she stays on video throughout, and a talk therapy session follows a day or two later. Dosing and integration sessions usually repeat every two weeks.

Who it is for

She works with adolescents from 13 and with adults, mainly on anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and eating disorders, and has experience with dual diagnosis and psychosis. Services are for people in Massachusetts.

Practical details

Sessions run by video only. A free 10-minute consultation comes first, and private-pay fees run from $110 for a 40-minute session to $160 for the 55-minute intake, with group sessions at $40. She is in network with Aetna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Optum, United Healthcare and others, but not with MassHealth.

Care and safety

For KAP she first reviews history and goals, then refers the client to Journey Clinical’s medical team if it is clinically appropriate. A support person must be at home during each dosing session.