Hello,
I'm Dominique Rae Cautivo
AMFT #149470
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy · Complex Trauma · Somatic and Relational Therapy
I’m here as your supporter, advocate, and listening ear. Someone who sees your strength, your longings, and your beautiful imperfections. Someone to breathe with and feel safe with through confusing and painful times. You don’t have to do this alone. When you’re ready, we’ll figure it out together.
Hello,
I'm Dominique Rae Cautivo
AMFT #149470
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy · Complex Trauma · Somatic and Relational Therapy
I’m here as your supporter, advocate, and listening ear. Someone who sees your strength, your longings, and your beautiful imperfections. Someone to breathe with and feel safe with through confusing and painful times. You don’t have to do this alone. When you’re ready, we’ll figure it out together.
My Approach:
I blend trauma-informed, culturally responsive, somatic, relational, mindfulness-based, and skills-based work. Pain can pull us away from connection and self-understanding. It can also show us the way back.
Some sessions we listen to the body: sensation, emotion, deeper longing. Some sessions we work with the mind, noticing the thought patterns that shape your choices. We might explore your history, your relationships, or the ways you learned to protect yourself. Sometimes we simply talk through the week or try a new skill. We follow what matters most to you.
KETAMINE-ASSISTED PSYCHOTHERAPY (KAP)
Some pain doesn’t loosen through talking alone. Old protective patterns, deep shame, and trauma stored in the body can stay locked in place even after years of insight. In carefully prepared, low doses, ketamine can soften those defenses long enough for something new to be felt.
My KAP work draws on parts work (IFS), AEDP, somatic awareness, and sound. The aim is the same as in all of my sessions: meeting the parts of you that have been protecting you, with curiosity instead of force.
How it works:
- A consultation with me to see if KAP fits
- An evaluation with our partner psychiatrist, who prescribes the medicine
- Preparation sessions to build safety and clarify intentions
- 2 to 3 hour KAP sessions at our Campbell office or in your home
- An integration session after each one, so what opens up can take root
KAP is available for adults.
I WORK WITH:
Trauma and relationships
- Complex trauma (developmental, relational, systemic, collective)
- Emotional neglect, manipulation, and abuse
- Attachment and relationship patterns
- Adult children of emotionally immature parents
Inner life
- Shame and low self-worth
- Anxiety, depression, and anger
- Highly sensitive people and empaths
- Financial stress and scarcity patterns
Crisis and intensity
- Self-harm and suicidal thoughts
- Borderline personality patterns
Soul and intuition
- Inner child and shadow work
- Soul work and retrieval
- Developing intuition
Also
- Children and teens with behavioral challenges
- New and early-career therapists
Credentials:
- Master’s of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Santa Clara University
- Bachelor’s of Science in Health Education, San Francisco State University
- Community Public Health Emphasis with a Double Minor in Holistic Health and Women’s Health Issues
Experience and Training:
- Spiral Process Method, with Dmitry Vulfovich, LMFT and Nadia Vulfovich, LMFT
- Psychedelic Process Training: Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
- Internal Family Systems (IFS) and AEDP, with Karla Amanda Brown, LMFT
- Hypnosis in Counseling and Psychotherapy, with Jerold Lee Shapiro, PhD
- Psychodynamic Therapy and Object Relations, with Teri Quatman, PhD
- Integral Sound Healing, Level 1, Sound Healing Academy (Level 2 Sound Bath Certification in progress)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Foundations, Psychwire
- Crisis Counselor, San Francisco Suicide Prevention and 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
- Child-Centered Play Therapy, with Allison Harre, LMFT
- CBT and Solution-Focused Brief Therapy, Sunnyvale School District
- Ahimsa Model, Seneca Family of Agencies
Therapy Options:
In person in Campbell, CA. Virtual throughout California. KAP sessions at our Campbell office or in your home.
Supervised by Dmitry Vulfovich, LMFT #95964