Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Education
We offer support and education to those looking to add ketamine to their practice.
Expand your practice with ketamine
The best professionals are constantly learning. There are always new techniques and information that would allow you to better assist your clients. We welcome those who are getting ready to add ketamine services to their practices, or are joining a ketamine practice, and who are currently providing ketamine infusions and want to learn how to add ketamine assisted psychotherapy.
Ketamine has been increasingly prescribed as an off-label treatment for various chronic treatment-resistant mental health conditions, such as depression, alcohol and other substance dependencies, post-traumatic stress disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, and other psychiatric diagnoses. It is distinguished from other psychotropic medications by its rapid onset, often producing transient relief in as soon as a few hours.
Ketamine's dissociative effects create a time out from one's habitual ways of thinking and ruminative worries; this tends to disrupt patterns of negative feelings and obsessional preoccupations, and creates opportunities to explore novel ways of being.
In lower doses, some people experience empathogenic (similar to MDMA) effects, with a relaxing of typical defenses, which can greatly enhance a psychotherapy session. At higher doses, ketamine acts as a potent psychedelic and dissociative agent, often facilitating a profound transpersonal or mystical peak experience.
These sorts of peak experiences have been shown to expand one’s sense of self and understanding of existence, and are particularly well-suited for exploration with providers who are open to transpersonal inquiries. The emergence of core emotional themes can also provide a wealth of material to work with in therapy, especially in the context of a long-term therapeutic relationship.
2019 Annual IFS Conference
Dr. Robert Grant
Watch a video of Dr. Robert Grant's Ketamine Assisted Internal Family Systems talk at the 2019 annual IFS conference.
Expand Your Ketamine Education!
If you enjoyed Dr. Grant's Ketamine Assisted Internal Family Systems talk, then you may want to sign up for our Advanced Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: Focus on Internal Family Systems Course after you complete the 101 Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: Getting Started Course.
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If a participant or potential participant would like to express a concern about his/her/their experience with a Healing Realms Psychotherapy, Inc course, he/she/they may email [email protected]. Although we do not guarantee a particular outcome, the individual can expect us to consider the complaint, make any necessary decisions, and respond within 28 working days. Due to the electronic delivery of this course, refunds will not be issued.