Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy: What Every Therapist Needs to Know
Description
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is increasingly becoming a treatment tool sought out by clients. Clients often turn to known mental health professionals to help them assess if this is the right treatment for them. This webinar will leave you well equipped to conduct thoughtful conversation around ketamine assisted psychotherapy and leave you feeling confident to help others, or yourself, navigate the discussion surrounding whether KAP is the correct treatment tool to implement. This webinar can also help you decide whether you would like to begin working yourself providing ketamine-assisted therapy to your clients. This course provides an overview of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) where topics include: history of psychedelic assisted therapy, ethical considerations, current legal considerations, routes of administration, anatomy of KAP treatment, mental health challenges and issues which may be helped or improved by KAP, harm reduction, cultural/racial concerns and considerations, and the importance of increased accessibility for underserved populations. Resources for further learning and how to get started building your KAP practice will be provided.
Learning Objectives
- Participants will come away with an ability to articulate and discuss the history of psychedelic work in the field of mental health and what KAP treatment consists of, including the importance of preparation and integration work.
- Participants will be able to articulate at least three mental health concerns which may be improved by ketamine assisted psychotherapy.
- Participants will be able to explain and discuss the different routes of administration of ketamine and its FDA approval status.
- Participants will come away with the knowledge of how to get trained further in KAP work and where to get started in adding KAP to their practice.
Instructor Bio
Rena Beyer opened Fostering Greatness, a mental health private practice, in 2016. Rena offers traditional talk-therapy sessions and ketamine-assisted therapy sessions (IV ketamine and Spravato esketamine). Rena was the first psychotherapist on the east coast to provide Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), as she started working with ketamine in her practice in 2017. Rena is a relational, trauma-trained therapist and uses an eclectic and personalized approach in her therapeutic work pulling from Internal Family Systems (IFS), Mindfulness-Based Therapy (MBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), and Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Rena is trained in ketamine-assisted therapy, as well as MDMA-assisted & psilocybin-assisted therapies, by Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI) [Cohort 1, 2023] and Polaris Insight Center [2020]. Rena’s therapeutic style is solution-focused, non judgmental, and empathic. Rena has been working as a licensed therapist since 2013 and her background is in both Psychology and Social Work. In addition to her clinical work, Rena is a former member of the board of directors for the American Society of Ketamine Physicians, Psychotherapists, and Practitioners (ASKP3) and founded the Therapist Advisory Panel within ASKP3, which represents therapist’s interests and needs in the ketamine treatment space. Rena is also a former board member of the New Jersey Psychedelic Therapy Association. Rena provides training to therapists on ketamine-assisted therapy and offers consultation to therapists providing this treatment. Rena also educates in the field on ketamine-assisted therapy, trauma informed care, and effective emotion management skills.
Ms. Beyer has no conflicts of interest for this webinar.
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