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Prepare Your Self, Your Client, and Your Practice for Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
It is exceedingly easy to add psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy to your outpatient practice. Not what you’ve heard or imagined? Let me change your mind. For licensed clinicians, it is simple, easy and fast. These medicines fit into our existing work, be it psychoanalytic psychotherapy, DBT, CBT, IFS, mindfulness-focused, somatically-based, narrative therapies, all of it. No need to let dread of extensive training/education derail you from this wildly fabulous new opportunity for the enrichment of your work. Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) isn’t a developmental or practice theory requiring a two year advanced-clinical training/education program. It is simply a potent, novel, user-friendly tool to incorporate into your existing practice/approach.
KAP Onboarding Support Packages
Are you a Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapist in a solo or group practice?
Looking to integrate KAP into your services with confidence and clarity?
Need help ensuring you’ve covered every detail—ethically, legally, and clinically?
We’ve created three ready-to-use support packages to help you onboard KAP clients ethically, safely, and with ease:
Consent Forms Package $65
The Most Legally Sound KAP Consent Package Available
Why Invest in These Consent Forms?
In the evolving field of Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), we operate in a gray area where the legal and ethical landscape is constantly shifting. Your top priority should always be protecting yourself, your practice, and your clients. That’s why we’ve created this consent package in collaboration with our legal team. Unlike many templates circulating online, these forms have been professionally reviewed by legal experts to ensure they meet essential standards for compliance, clarity, and liability protection.
What’s Included in the Package:
– At-Home Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Consent & Participation Agreement. Covers expectations, responsibilities, and safety measures for at-home KAP sessions.
– Cheat Sheet: Consent Walkthrough: A reference guide with talking points to help you confidently review consent with clients during sessions.
– Informed Consent & Release Agreement – Risks and Benefits. Clearly outlines the nature of KAP, potential risks, benefits, and client acknowledgments.
– KAP Therapeutic Touch Consent Form: Provides clear boundaries and consent for any physical touch used in therapeutic settings.
– KAP Treatment Safety Precautions and Procedure Consent: Details safety protocols and procedures to maintain best practices during treatment.
Protect yourself, your clients, and your practice. These forms are designed to support ethical, compliant, and transparent care in KAP—because doing this work responsibly is the greatest investment you can make.
Role-Play Demonstration Video Pack $36
KAP Session Demonstration Videos
We have found in our years of training psychotherapists to work in KAP that folx really value a chance to see what KAP actually looks like and how to do it. These are a collection of videos we use to train psychotherapists in working with Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. They are role-play demonstrations of intake sessions, preparation sessions and medicine session journeys.
Initial Intake (20 Minutes)
This video walks the therapist through an initial conversation with several clients interested in KAP. It demonstrates ways to manage fear and expectations, differentiating ketamine from other psychedelics, educating the client about the effects of the medicine, and explaining the KAP treatment process. The video offers snippets of new clients, old clients, stuck clients, harm reduction models, TRD protocol conversations, etc.
Consent to Treatment (7 Minutes)
This is a video demonstration of walking a client through all the nitty gritty details of consenting to KAP treatment, including touch and at-home use protocols. (see consents package for more information)
Touch Refusal Exercise (5 Minutes)
Some KAP clinicians use various forms of touch during medicine sessions. After client and therapist have a consent plan, this is a due-diligence exercise of practice with your clients if you are offering touch as part of your treatment model.
Medicine Journey Session (16 Minutes)
Karen and Sophia role play the beginning of a medicine session, reviewing with the client the details of medicine sessions, managing expectations, fears and anxiety, reviewing protocol for taking the medicine, locking in on their intention, short meditation, taking the medicine, and settling into the journey with occasional check-ins.
Medicine Journey Session Part II (11 Minutes)
In the previous video we demonstrated how most first medicine sessions begin. This video offers examples of when there are some difficulties in the clients settling into the session, and ways you might navigate that.
KAP Client Preparation Package $28
Client preparation for psychedelic assisted psychotherapy begins before the first intake consultation. Providing clients with supplemental psychoeducation at various junctures in the onboarding process significantly beefs up and simultaneously shortens client preparation.
This package includes the following in PDF format for digital sharing during the onboarding process with clients:
Intake
– Clinical Eligibility Intake
– Annotated Intake (Detailed explanations of each item of Clinical Eligibility Intake)
– Pre-Intake Psychoeducation
Why Ketamine?
– 3 Ways Ketamine Can Help
– Pre-medicine Session Psychoeducation
Prepare Yourself For a Fruitful Journey
– Guideposts for Your Journey
– Support Person Guide
– Week of/Day of Guide
– Sample of Conversational Journal Prompts for Group Retreat
Buy all three for just $103
Consents Package: Legally Prepared, Ethical, Official, for all KAP Scenarios $65
KAP Client Preparation Package: Intakes, Candidacy and Client Psychoeducation Documents $28
Role Play Demonstration Videos: Walk through Intakes and Medicine Journeys $36
Buy all three for just $103 (save $25)
Everything you need to launch or refine your KAP workflow—all created by seasoned KAP clinicians.
Clinical Supervision
Karen provides clinical supervision in individual and group formats. Her offerings are focused on:
- Using analytic/object relations/relational theory to deepen clinical work
- Supporting therapists incorporating ketamine assisted psychotherapy into their practices
- Collaborating with therapists whose clients are doing psychedelic assisted psychotherapy with other providers
Curious About How to Prepare for Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy?
A Practical Overview
Date: Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Time: 6 PM – 8 PM ET
Presenters: Dr. Sophia Brandstetter, LCSW, PsyD & Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW
Presentation is FREE. There is a small charge for CEU credit. Registration is required.
KAP Bootcamp for Psychotherapists: Concrete, Practical, Detailed Nuts and Bolts in 6 Packed CEU Hours
When – November 9th 9am to 4pm
This condensed intensive is packed with all the practical/ concrete/ ethical/ legal/ clinical/ administrative/ nuts and bolts of offering Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in your solo and group practice. We will walk you through each step of the process of offering KAP: obtaining medical prescriber relationships and malpractice insurance, evaluating clients for clinical candidacy, establishing meaningful consent, understanding dosing protocols and options, building rich set and setting, intention setting, handling medicine journeys, monitoring successful integration, and shaping treatment protocols as you help your client seek healing. These are 6 content-dense KAP education hours. It is not a discussion-based format, but rather a didactic format meant to help you up and running in your KAP practice.
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: How Therapists are Using Ketamine to Transform Care – 3 CEUs
When – Friday, October 17th 01:00pm – 4:15pm
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is an emerging, evidence-informed treatment approach offering new possibilities for clients struggling with depression, trauma, grief, addiction, and chronic stuckness. As interest in psychedelic therapies grows, so does confusion especially around ketamine’s role compared to other psychedelics, medical models, and recreational use.
This workshop provides a clear, accessible introduction to the clinical foundations of KAP, including when it’s appropriate, how it differs from traditional therapy, and what responsible implementation looks like. Whether you’re curious about integrating KAP into your practice or simply want to better support clients asking about it, this training will equip you with the essential concepts and considerations needed to move forward confidently.
From Start to Finish: Onboarding Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) in Your Solo or Group Practice
When – WINTER DATES COMING SOON!!
This training provides a step-by-step guide to onboarding Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) into your practice, covering everything from intake to preparation, treatment planning, medicine sessions, and integration. The course includes business coaching, operational strategies, conceptual frameworks, and clinical tools to build an effective, ethical KAP program. Whether you’re new to KAP or enhancing an existing practice, you’ll leave ready to integrate KAP confidently, reduce uncertainty, and grow your practice in the psychedelic space.
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