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

  
  

Participants will check-in the evening of October 15th and checkout is mid-morning on Sunday October 19th. 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.

Onsite Queen/Full Room: $2950 

Onsite Twin Room: $2750 

Self-lodging: $2450

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 May 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

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 was 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.

Dr. Katie Fassbinder

Katie Fassbinder, M.D. (she/hers) is a practicing psychiatrist in rural and urban Wisconsin over the past 20 years, with a focus to foster healing and wholeness through authentic connection.  Her work has largely been in the public sector, where Katie has served as the Medical Director for mental health services in four different counties in Southwest Wisconsin.

Inspired by the re-emergence of psychedelic medicines in the realm of psychiatry and the profound opportunities that these medicines offer for transformative inner work, Katie founded Inner Guide Integrative Psychiatry in Viroqua, Wisconsin.  There she provides individual and group ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, in addition to adult psychiatric care, Reiki, and auricular acupuncture.  She also serves as a co-facilitator for ketamine group work alongside the Integrata team under the clinical direction of Dr. Chantelle Thomas at the Usona Institute’s immersive psychedelic training programs in Madison, Wisconsin.

As one of the physician instructors at the Elemental Psychedelics ketamine training, Katie aspires to provide clear, evidence- and practice-based, up-to-date, pragmatic clinical information that will help prepare both prescribers and non-prescribing mental health professionals for their own ketamine-assisted therapy practices

Rob Colbert, PhD, LPC-S

Dr. Rob Colbert (he/him/his) MA, PhD, LPC-S is therapist and owner of An Enduring Love, Co., in Fort Collins, Colorado.  Dr. Colbert is trained to work in collaboration with medical prescribers to support Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) for recommended clients, and was a sub-investigator in the MAPS Phase III clinical trials for MDMA-assisted Psychotherapy for PTSD. He is also a clinical supervisor, consultant for Lykos, and published researcher on therapeutic and social uses of psychedelics. Dr. Colbert recently served as the cohort supervisor for the psychedelic-assisted therapy program offered at Naropa University and teaches in Naropa's psychedelic program. In his community work, Dr. Colbert is a co-founder of The Nowak Society 501c3, providing education and community organizing around psychedelic reform.  Dr. Colbert specializes in integrating “big state” experiences, whether related to psychedelics or other substances or intense life experiences.