$2,000 (no experience)

This includes:
- 3-day training
- Training materials and templates
- Lunch on Thursday, Friday & Saturday
- Snacks/Drinks
- One post-training cohort group check-in

$2,500 (with experience)

This includes:
- 3-day training
- 4th day Ketamine experience
- Training materials and templates
- Lunch on Thursday, Friday & Saturday
- Snacks/Drinks
- One post-training cohort group check-in

*Cost of Psychiatrist meeting/obtaining Ketamine prescription is separate.

YES!
You will receive 18 CE credits and a certificate of completion

ReWriting Stories: Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Training has been approved by NBCC for NBCC credit. Sessions approved for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Stories Counseling, PLLC is solely responsible for all aspects of the program.NBCC Approval No. SP-4943 .

For any licensed provider:
Licensed Therapists/Counselors
Social Workers
Psychologists
Life/Health Coaches**

**If you are not licensed (life coach, health coach, etc) and you are interested, please apply below and we will have additional questions to verify eligibility**

This training is designed so that participants will be able to:

• Describe and discuss the historical developmental use of psychedelics (specifically Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy) in medical and mental health practice. 

• Identify how KAP has been useful for impacting clinical therapy work and describe the differences between recreational and clinical medical/therapeutic use of ketamine. 

• Discuss the recent research, statistics and treatment outcomes surrounding KAP to potential clients. Assess client experience and effectiveness of KAP treatment based on intentions set for goals within sessions. 

• Analyze ways in which integrating spiritual experiences during NOSC in a ketamine session may be difficult and also may be helpful for clients and describe what philosophical influences of indigenous spiritual traditions have impacted the development of KAP. 

• Prepare, design and explain the blueprint to future KAP sessions and the importance of ecology in the process. 

• Identify diagnoses’ that would be appropriate for ketamine treatment, develop treatment plans for KAP sessions, identify clients who would and would not be good candidates.

• Describe ways to psychologically and physically prepare a client for a ketamine session and understand ways in which trauma may surface in a ketamine session.

• Prepare to utilize interventions, such as IFS, grounding, somatics and breath work, in treatment during a ketamine session with a client to help regulate the nervous system.  

• Analyze and discuss the components and experience of a ketamine session from start to finish, including intention setting, integration and set, setting and dosing protocols as well as the various routes of administration for KAP.

• Demonstrate application of knowledge and tools learned surrounding KAP, while working with non-ordinary state of consciousness and summarize details of a KAP session experience in documentation to provide to a client.

• Demonstrate ability to assist a client in integrating KAP individual and group session experiences into client conscious state that assists client in meaning making of experience. 

• Identify the process for administering ketamine medicine and recognize factors that indicate ineligibility for ketamine session and understand the possible side effects of ketamine and how they are managed. 

• Describe ways in which a clinician can help mitigate the risk of ketamine addiction and analyze ways in which countertransference may occur during a ketamine session.

• Recognize potential risks involved with KAP and explain boundaries that must be communicated prior to a ketamine session.

• Identify the legal and practical hurdles in accessing KAP treatment for their clients and organize a list of resources to secure necessary items to have available for a ketamine session. 

• Organize and prepare necessary documentation and insurance requirements before taking on KAP clients, as well as describe considerations and boundaries surrounding marketing and advertising KAP treatment. 

• Assess, prepare, apply and integrate KAP for future clients, as well as prepare their clients for integrating the experiences for KAP sessions into their larger therapeutic goals.

• Prepare clients psychologically, emotionally and physically for KAP and take a client through a KAP protocol from start to finish, as well as account for necessary set up requirements and have identified resources for trouble shooting through out the protocol.

For information on provider policies regarding fees, cancellations, refunds, disputes, confidentiality, accommodations, etc. Please see the attached PDF below

Provider Policies

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

For an additional fee (see “Cost of Training” above, you can return for a 4th day for just a few hours and take and experience ketamine yourself.

We believe that in order to lead someone in this journey, you should know what it’s like.