Finding and Making Paths in KAP: Supervision/Consultation Group
Supervision/consultation for psychotherapists trained and actively working with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
Some of our clinicians are in the first months of using KAP as a tool in their practice, and some using it for years. What we share in common is we are seasoned clinicians, interested in talking about this tool, and how to leverage it in our very different practices and therapy approaches.
I can operate as a supervisor in the space, responsible for a KAP knowledge base (with contacts for deeper dive questions), but the group operates more as a consultation group, as the expertise we will all be relying on is our years as therapists, with this new shiny tool.
This is for Trained KAP Clinicians
This is for clinicians who have already taken some basic education and training in KAP* and has started to work with KAP clients in their practice. KAP might be new, but you are not a new therapist…just new to this particular tool.
This is the group where we think about protocol approaches as relates to how often our clients do medicine journeys, if they do them live and monitored with us, at home protocols, psychedelic versus psycholytic uses of the medicine, whether they are on journeys to collect data or take in somatic truths, and on and on. Like, the therapy part.
*If you aren’t trained yet, please schedule a consultation with me before you sign up for some multi-month/year multi-thousands of dollars of programming for people other than licensed clinicians. We need wildly different, wildly specific and wildly less training.
The Consultation Group
Finding and Making Paths in KAP is a virtual consultation group for psychotherapists trained in KAP. The design is simple: a small group of differently trained, differently leaning clinicians, sharing how we are using this tool with clients and thinking together about what we encounter.
My practice frame is analytically oriented psychotherapy. Every cycle of our group has included a full array of somatically oriented clinicians, EMDR, DBT, mindfulness practices, IFS, and otherwise trained and curious therapists. Each frame brings something. The conversation is richer for it.
Format
Each 90-minute session gives a couple of participants the chance to bring a client, a question, or a concern to the group. We identify the theme so everyone can link their own cases into the conversation — not formal case presentations, but live clinical thinking together.
Here is what that looks like in practice:
- Bill brings in a case where his client is struggling to drop in, or has a lackluster session, or is convinced they aren’t getting anything out of KAP. We unpack Bill’s case, but with everyone’s similar cases in mind, so the thinking serves the whole room.
- Barbara’s client is starting to bubble over in rage at her family during the week between KAP sessions. We think together about dislodged emotions, how to help clients manage new feelings and truths surfacing between sessions — using Barbara’s client as the entry point while everyone tracks their own.
- Baxter isn’t sure how to use the lucid dream quality of the medicine experience to understand what his client is working through. We explore how to read the symbolism and somatic experiences of the medicine and post-medicine period — specific to Baxter’s client, useful for everyone.
The first 75 minutes are the group. The final 15 minutes are open for anyone who wants to stay on with practical or procedural questions about KAP practice.
The Details
- Virtual, every other Tuesday, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM.
- $360 for 6 sessions.
- Maximum 8 participants.
- Participants must be trained in KAP with at least one or two active KAP clients.
- Rolling Admissions…whenever the group is below 8, we will be open to new participants.
Do You Need an Experiential First?
If you still need an experiential and want the chance to watch an expert onboard a group of ten participants through preparation, medicine journeys, and integration — our upcoming Becoming Your Own Ally group retreat is worth considering.
Do You Need KAP Training First?
From dipping your toes in by buying my book, through trainings and supervision options, learn more below.
Case Consultation
Have a case related to KAP you want to think through? One or two consultations may be exactly what you need.
Case consultation is a good fit if you are:
- KAP trained and want to think through a specific case and protocol options.
- Wondering whether your client is a good candidate for KAP and how collaboration would work.
- Needing someone to think with about a client who is doing psychedelic work — with you or separate from you.
- Not looking for ongoing supervision, just a focused conversation with someone who knows this work.
Individual Supervision
I also provide ongoing individual supervision related to both KAP and my practice frame of analytically oriented psychotherapy. If you are looking for regular, sustained support in either or both of these areas, individual supervision may be the right fit.
How to Get Started
For any of the supervision and consultation options — the group, a case consultation, or individual supervision — let’s start with a quick video chat. We can figure out together what makes sense for where you are in your KAP work.
Or email Karen: info@fullliving.com
*Trained in KAP means having completed a formal KAP training program. If you are unsure whether your training qualifies, or are interested in the training I offer, bring that question to the video chat.