Ketamine is the only legal psychedelic currently available to use outside of clinical trials. It’s a unique medication in that it’s a dissociative anesthetic with psychedelic properties at higher doses. Ketamine is one of the most widely used drugs in modern medicine, and is on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines. In the last two decades, ketamine has been increasingly clinically applied at sub-anesthetic doses as an off-label treatment for various chronic and treatment-resistant mental health conditions, such as depression, substance use disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety disorders, and other psychiatric diagnoses.

Paired with therapy, ketamine can be an especially powerful tool to process stuck emotions, lower defenses, decrease symptoms, and increase neuroplasticity. This training will help providers learn about how to provide ketamine assisted therapy with clients who qualify for ketamine to support their mental health symptoms through a trauma-informed lens.

This online training program is primarily for mental health practitioners (psychologists, therapists, social workers, counselors, and psychiatrists). Pre-licensed mental health practitioners who are graduating from their masters or doctorate programs within a year are also welcome to join. Other health professionals and masters-level spiritual counselors are eligible as long as they have had training in mental health. Please contact trainings@alchemytherapy.org if you’re not sure if your license applies.

All sessions will be held live via Zoom. Readings, presentations, and recordings of the sessions will be available online through a user-friendly learning management software, which will also include a space for discussion. Optional weekly home groups with two of our facilitators will also be available for those who want to practice what they learn and deepen into community.

We care deeply about making this work affordable and accessible: it's why our nonprofit exists. Our class fees are not only lower than others, but we also offer payment plans at checkout, to spread the cost out over a few months.

If you are low-income and the class is still inaccessible to you with the payment plan, we may have partial scholarships available: please contact trainings@alchemytherapy.org

This training will not include a ketamine experiential. However, this is something we may consider offering for those who fully complete our training and have a qualifying mental health diagnosis. We will, however, have an experiential “active imagination” workshop, which will give participants an opportunity to engage with their subconscious without active medicine.

Yes! The $2,500 cost includes 35 Continuing Education Credits.

More information on CEs:

• This course requires live virtual attendance for at least 10 out of 14 Zoom classes over the 7 weeks (each Saturday has two classes). Attendance includes active engagement in the live training and remaining on-camera for the duration. We will be tracking attendance. All required readings must be completed and virtual quizzes must be passed. CEs cannot be made up by watching a recording of the training. If you do not attend enough live trainings to fulfill the CE requirements, you will not receive any CEs because partial credit is not allowed. Being more than 15mins late counts as an absence. All required readings must be completed and virtual quizzes must be passed.

• CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is co-sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

• The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by sponsors of CE who are approved by the American Psychological Association.

• LCSW, LPCC, LEP and LMFTs, and other professionals from outside of California need to check with their state licensing board as to whether or not they accept credits from programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.

• SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes. Nurses outside of California must confirm acceptance with their licensing boards.

• For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Alchemy at trainings@alchemytherapy.org

• For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly.

• For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at info@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.

After completing the training, you will receive a certificate of completion, which some malpractice insurance companies may ask for. This is not the same as becoming “certified” in KAT, because there is currently no official certification board setting the standards.

We hope this training gives you enough of a foundation to decide if this is a path you might want to pursue. If so, we hope that you seek more support and clinical consultation as you step into this work with clients, including reaching out to us for co-therapy opportunities, role play feedback, recorded session feedback, and continued training.

If you’ve been an Alchemy client but no longer are now, you’re welcome to join. If you are a current client, we’d also love to have you, but we encourage you to talk to your therapist so we can minimize dual relationships when possible. You’re also welcome to reach out to our Clinical Director at irina@alchemytherapy.org if you have any questions or concerns.

Alchemy is committed to providing high quality trainings to participants in our program. Our trainers have had experience training intern therapists and licensed providers since 2019, when we opened our clinic doors. If you are ever unsatisfied or would like to offer feedback, please email trainings@alchemytherapy.org

For live training programs, participants must cancel 3 weeks before the program starts to get a full refund. If canceled within the first week of the program, participants can receive a 50% refund (minus a $25 admin fee and payment processing fee). If canceled after a week, participants cannot receive refunds. In the case of an emergency cancellation, participants can ask to extend the time the class recordings are available in order to still receive a certificate of completion (without CE credits).