Meet the Doctor

Hello. I am Norihide Ensako, Director of HIKARI CLINIC.

For many years I have practiced as a specialist in psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy within contemporary psychiatry. Yet I kept asking whether I was truly reaching the root of grief and pain, for patients and for myself. I still feel that limit.

I turn to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) and psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) to offer a more essential option for people who have not improved enough with prior care. It is not medication and done. Prepare, experience, and integrate into daily life. At HIKARI CLINIC we intend to offer that whole process as treatment.

Much of psychiatry has focused on easing “symptoms” such as anxiety and depression. That work matters. Yet I believe recovery often turns on a deeper layer: how a person senses the world, and how they narrate themselves within it.

Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy can temporarily shift consciousness and gently loosen rigid patterns of thought and self-image. In a safe setting with professional support, that experience can be woven back into life afterward. Not merely suppressing symptoms, but carefully reweaving a person’s story. That is how I understand this care.

This view is grounded in my own practice. I have spent hundreds of sessions in our floating tank (a quiet, light- and sound-reduced space) to understand, in the body, how consciousness and the mind move, not only from textbooks.

Traveling the world, I also encountered forms of ancient wisdom: a Mayan shamanic psilocybin ceremony in Mexico, ayahuasca in the Peruvian Amazon, and psilocybin treatment and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) in Oregon, among others.

Diving into the sea of my own consciousness, I came to understand meaning, transformation, and reconnection with the world around me. I brought that home and learned how it can inform psychiatric care. It is a universal kind of experience, one of the most important in a human life.

Each of you has a life that is irreplaceable and singular. If I can help you reclaim its meaning as your own story, and live a life filled with light, that is what I hope to offer.

Of course this treatment is not effective for everyone, and it does not replace standard care. That is why careful assessment at the first visit matters: taking time to see whether it may be right for you.