Ketamine-assisted Therapy Training

A psychedelic experiential training taught and led by experts in the field. This training touches on the clinical, mental, physical and spiritual aspects of providing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and is held in a small container promoting community and deep connection.

Participants will take a deep dive into the skills and ethics of ketamine-assisted therapy and integration work for enduring change. This training includes two experientials with ketamine in low dose oral form. Open to clinical professionals from counseling, psychology, social work, health or mental health backgrounds. Click "Show More" below to read more details and pricing.

At the end of this training participants will be able to:

• Understand the essentials of ketamine-assisted therapy, including dosing, routes of administration, uses and indications, contraindications, and clinical assessment
• Explore the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of ketamine therapy in an intimate container that promotes community and deep connection
• Take a deep dive into the skills and ethics of ketamine therapy and integration work for enduring change
• Gain firsthand experience through two experientials with ketamine as a psychedelic tool
• Navigate the terrain of transpersonal and psychospiritual experiences in ketamine therapy
• Managing common challenges and difficult experiences in ketamine therapy
• Describe the essential components and purpose of set, setting, and container as applied to ketamine-assisted therapies
• Explore topics of consent, touch, and an understanding of power in psychedelic spaces
• Understand the essential components of integration, and explore verbal and non-verbal modes of integration that might be useful in your practice
• Examine the nuances of working with marginalized communities (e.g., women, LGBTQIA, BIPOC) and apply anti-racist and feminist theories to your psychedelic practice

Participants will check-in the evening of Sept 4th and checkout is mid-morning on Sunday Sept 8th. A limited number of tickets include on-site lodging in a shared cabin with two people per cabin. Cabins have full kitchens, living rooms, and two small bedrooms with a queen/full or twin bed.  Alternatively, you may choose to stay in nearby Allenspark at an airbnb or other lodging option of your choosing. Have a RV or car camper? You can stay on-site with us and pay for a self-lodging ticket. No hook-ups for water or sewer are available but you can plug an extension cord for power if needed.

In either case, please start by purchasing a "reserve your spot" ticket with a $500 deposit and let us know in your registration form if you plan to stay on-site or off-site. We will follow up with an invoice accordingly to complete the remaining registration amount. If you participated in one of our 2024 workshops, be sure to use the discount code provided at the workshop for $100 off your registration!

Onsite Queen/Full Room: $2900 

Onsite Twin Room: $2750 

Self-lodging: $2350 

All tickets include meals with our private chef, medical safety evaluations for ketamine, and all training activities. Participants may need to additionally pay ~$60 for a ketamine prescription for the training. Refunds are available up to 30 days prior to the start of training. 

If we are sold out of tickets, please register still for a "wait list / interest list" ticket and we will let you know if a space becomes available for the Sept training, as well as notify you when dates for the next KAP training are announced. We generally offer two KAP trainings per year.

For licensed social workers, marriage and family therapists, addictions counselors, psychologists, and licensed professional counselors, a certificate of completion will be provided for 32 professional development hours that can be used toward demonstrating continuing professional competency for licensure renewal in the state of Colorado.

For questions, please email us at: info@elementalpsychedelics.com

Participants also have the opportunity to join ongoing group clinical supervision cohorts and consultation groups to stay connected to a thriving practitioner community and expert consultation for your KAP practice.

About the Trainers

Dori Lewis, MA, LPC, LMHC

Dori Lewis (she, her, hers) is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC-S) and Clinical Supervisor with a Masters in Education (EdM) and Masters in Psychology (MA) from Columbia University in New York, NY. Dori is a co-founder of Elemental Psychedelics and the owner-operator of Reflective Healing in Fort Collins, CO, a psychotherapy group practice that specializes in psychedelic therapy using ketamine, integration therapy, transpersonal psychotherapy, and providing clinical supervision. To date, she has stewarded nearly 100 ketamine therapy sessions and countless more individual and group ceremonies. Dori is currently in an apprenticeship with a mushroom medicine elder from the Zapotec lineage in Oaxaca, Mexico. She has also received shamanic journey training from Sandra Ingerman and practices this style of altered states work in her clinical practice in Fort Collins. Her clinical background includes having earned two master's degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University, in counseling education and psychology.

Dori feels strongly that the shamanic teachings she has received and the indigenous wisdom she is currently receiving, help her bridge traditional counseling practice with the shamanic realms that hold incredible meaning and connection for psychedelic therapy and education. Dori has come to deeply value a slow and embodied approach to working with plant and psychedelic medicines – an approach that she believes helps move us from the conceptual, into the body to support a more integrated life. Additionally, she has come to honor all the pathways that bring us into our own right relationship with the natural world, including that of the medicine paths. As interest in psychedelic medicine continues to grow, Dori feels it is the responsibility of those who have a voice in the professional and psychedelic communities to stay informed and intercept as well as challenge disinformation and questionably ethical practices that are being put out into the public arena. She also firmly believes that those with power and access in this space aim to use those platforms to raise up the voices of those who carry indigenous knowledge and wisdom.  Dori@elementalpsychedelics.com

Dr. Craig Heacock

Dr. Craig Heacock is an adolescent, adult, and addiction psychiatrist in Fort Collins, Colorado and he also hosts and co-produces a psychiatric storytelling podcast called Back from the Abyss. He has a special interest in the use of ketamine and psychedelics to treat mood disorders and PTSD. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and did his psychiatry training at Brown University.

Bri Bendixsen, MA

Bri Bendixsen (she/hers) is a psychotherapist practicing Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) and psychedelic integration at Reflective Healing in Fort Collins, Colorado. She is also a MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) certified therapist on the Phase 3 clinical trials for MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD. Bri is a founding member of PRATI (Psychedelic Research and Training Institute) and previously served as a lead faculty member, teaching on ethics and integration, and helped coordinate trainings for hundreds of mental health professionals from around the country in the clinical application of KAP. She completed her own KAP training with Dr. Phil Wolfson and the Ketamine Training Center in 2019. Bri is a current Board Member with The Nowak Society, a volunteer-run non-profit committed to psychedelic education, advocacy, and community outreach. Aside from talking about psychedelics, Bri is fueled by practicing yoga, snowboarding, devouring books, and playing in nature.

Joy Gribble, LCSW

Joy Gribble is a licensed clinical social worker and also has another Master’s degree in Culture and Spirituality and a Doctorate in the Ministry Engaged Wisdom, where she studied dream work, native traditions, religions of the world, cosmology, and other esoteric topics. She is currently a psychotherapist at Reflective Healing in Fort Collins, Colorado. She has been practicing ketamine therapy for several years, teaches enneagram workshops, and is certified as a naturopathic practitioner. She is passionate about this work because she sees clients being able to finally shift patterns that they have been stuck in for years, and truly create a life that they want as the ketamine helps to cut the ties that bind them.