Ketamine-assisted Therapy Training, Wisconsin

Elemental's ketamine-assisted therapy 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. In April 2026, we are excited to offer another of our in-person KAP trainings with expert faculty in Wisconsin!

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 experiential ketamine sessions with lower dose oral ketamine and/or the option of intramuscular ketamine. Open to clinical professionals from counseling, psychology, social work, medicine, health or mental health backgrounds. Click "Show More" below to continue reading.

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 facilitating and receiving two experientials with ketamine as a psychedelic tool

• Navigate the terrain of transpersonal and psychospiritual experiences in ketamine therapy

• Manage 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 April 22nd and checkout is noon on Sunday April 26th. Total registration fee is $2,700 for shared occupancy or $3200 for single occupancy. Most rooms are shared occupancy. Registration includes lodging, meals, medical safety evaluations for ketamine, and all training activities. Participants will need to additionally pay ~$60 for a ketamine prescription for the training.

Register here and submit your non-refundable $500 deposit. We will follow up with you shortly to confirm remaining details and invoice the remaining amount. If you would like to pay in installments, we are happy to work that out with you if you email us your request. Full payment must be received 45 days in advance of the start of training. Refunds (minus the $500 deposit) are available up to 45 days before the training start date. No refunds are available within 45 days of the start of training. 

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.

For questions, please email us at: admin at elementalpsychedelics dot com

About the Trainers

Katie Fassbinder, M.D.

Katie Fassbinder, M.D. (she/her) is a practicing psychiatrist in Wisconsin with over 20 years of experience, focused on fostering healing and wholeness through authentic connection. Much of her work has been in the public sector, where she served as the Medical Director for mental health services across four counties in Southwest Wisconsin. She currently serves as the Director of Mental Health & Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy at the Promega Corporation in Madison, WI. In this role, she is developing and implementing the world’s first in-house corporate KAP (Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy) program for Promega employees, embedded within the on-site Wellness Center. She also directs group KAP experiences at the Usona Institute’s immersive psychedelic training programs.

Katie’s work in psychedelics is inspired by the re-emergence of psychedelic medicines in psychiatry and the profound opportunities they offer for transformative inner work. In addition to individual and group KAP, her practice incorporates psychiatric care, Reiki, ecstatic dance, and auricular acupuncture.

As a physician instructor at Elemental Psychedelics’ ketamine training program, Katie aims to deliver clear, evidence- and practice-based, up-to-date, and pragmatic clinical information to prepare both prescribing and non-prescribing mental health professionals for their own ketamine-assisted therapy practices.

Erin M. Curtis, MD

Dr. Erin Curtis, MD is a psychiatrist and clinical educator with 20+ years experience who is NBPAS certified in general and addiction psychiatry. Her practice is currently in community mental health, residential addiction treatment,  private practice, consulting, brief psychotherapy, and ketamine assisted psychotherapy (KAP). 

Dr. Curtis  has collaborated with her colleagues at Integrata and Usona to develop group ketamine assisted psychotherapy models. She enjoys supporting KAP practitioners as a prescriber. She is an enthusiastic supporter of medical professionals who are innovating ways to work outside the corporate managed care health industry. In that spirit she happily offers psychiatric consults for family doctors practicing in a direct primary care model. 

Dr. Curtis' teaching and clinical style is creative, collaborative and practical. Dr. Curtis' professional interests include trauma, addiction, health equity, DBT, family constellations, somatics, integrative medicine, and psychedelic medicine. She has unique experience helping people with medical trauma.

As a clinical educator Dr. Curtis offers individual and group consultation and teaching. Her clients are other health professionals and clinical trainees seeking to expand their skills, develop their career paths, and deepen connections within local networks of practitioners. Typical clients include physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, social workers, therapists, nurses, psychedelic guides, and peer support specialists.

Dr. Curtis' love of nature, history, and the humanities informs her clinical practice and teaching. Community relationships, connection to nature, and creative expression are key in her work. She appreciates that spirituality and cultural connection are profound aspects of healing for many people and is interested in integrating clients' cultural and spiritual beliefs and practices into their care. Dr. Curtis also enjoys working with individuals who prefer to not incorporate spirituality or cultural specificity in health care, whatever the reason. Dr. Curtis has strong familiarity and personal experience with  atheism, skepticism, animistic paganism, mythology, Episcopal Christianity, Irish Catholicism, classical philosophy, yoga, Tarot, and queer culture.

Dr. Curtis was born in Washington DC and raised in northern Virginia. During undergrad at Virginia Tech she studied psychology, biology, chemistry, and classical studies. She graduated from University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and moved to Madison, Wisconsin for residency at University of Wisconsin. She completed fellowships in Addiction Psychiatry at UW and Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona. Her family remains on the east coast in rural Appalachia, New York City, Northern Virginia, and Nantucket, and she is glad to call all these places home. She lives on Ho Chunk land in Madison, Wisconsin with her husband, 2 kids, and 2 tiny dogs.

Rob Colbert, PhD, LPC-S

Dr. Rob Colbert (he/him/his) 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, former training consultant for Lykos, and published researcher on therapeutic and social uses of psychedelics. Dr. Colbert has served as the cohort supervisor for the psychedelic-assisted therapy program offered at Naropa University and taught in Naropa's psychedelic program and Elemental's KAP training program. He holds a NMIT license in Colorado for facilitating legal psilocybin mushroom sessions. 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.