Continuing Education (2 Units) and Lunch
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Friday, September 13, 2024 from 11:30 am-2:30 pm (check-in 11:15 am)
at the Las Posas Country Club: 955 Fairway Drive, Camarillo, CA
for our Chapter Meeting and Continuing Education Speaker Event
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Understanding Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy:
An Introduction
Speaker: Rachel Bornfeld, LMFT, ATR
NOTE: LOCATION CHANGE
Los Posas Country Club
955 Fairway Drive, Camarillo
Course Description: This introductory course explores the emerging field of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), focusing on its therapeutic potential for various mental health conditions. Participants will learn about the indications for use, including treatment-resistant depression, anxiety disorders, and PTSD. The course will cover appropriate treatment settings, such as clinical environments, private practices and retreats, and discuss the various routes of administration, including intravenous, intramuscular, and oral ketamine. Students will learn about foundational principles of KAP, including protocols and responsible applications that support its use in psychotherapy. The course will also explore the potential impact on the therapeutic process, including enhanced therapeutic relationship, deeper emotional exploration, heightened capacity to tolerate feeling states and enhanced flexibility in perspective. Additionally, participants will gain insight into a range of potential experiences and outcomes associated with KAP, including both psychological and physiological effects of ketamine. By the end of the course, attendees can make an informed decision about their own need or desire to pursue further training and education in the growing field of Ketamine and other Psychedelic Assisted Therapies. Instructor Information: Rachel Bornfeld, LMFT, ATR, is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Registered Art Therapist with over 20 years experience in providing psychotherapy to individuals, couples, families and groups in her private practice located in Westlake Village. In the past four years she has collaborated with a local anesthesiologist, providing Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy, primarily in a medical setting. Rachel is a recent graduate in the fourth cohort of the Integrative Psychiatry Institutes, Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Certification and Training Program.
Educational Goals: This workshop is intended for licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals with the goal of offering an introduction to the process and guiding principles of Ketmaine Assisted Psychotherapy (kAP), including practical and theoretical application, and a brief explanation of the science associated with Ketamine use in treating mental health. Participants will become familiar with treatment settings and routes of administration of medication, as well as gain understanding about varying types of KAP protocols, experiences, outcomes.
Educational Goals: This workshop is intended for licensed and pre-licensed mental health professionals with the goal of offering an introduction to the process and guiding principles of Ketmaine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP), including practical and theoretical application, and a brief explanation of the science associated with Ketamine use in treating mental health. Participants will become familiar with treatment settings and routes of administration of medication, as well as gain understanding about varying types of KAP protocols, experiences, outcomes.
Measurable Learning Objectives
● Participants will acquire a basic understanding of how Ketamine is used in treating mental health disorders, treatment protocols and basic psychological and physiological signatures of the medication.
● participants will distinguish between at least two types of non-ordinary states and potential roles they play in the therapeutic process.
● Participants will be able to identify three treatment settings where KAP is currently provided.
● Participants will be able to distinguish between four routes of administration of Ketamine.
● Participants will be able to state 3 key components of KAP treatment, including preparation, medicine and integration sessions, as well as understand the treatment protocol
● Participants will be able to name four different principles associated with KAP treatment, including the concept of set and setting, reverence for clients inner healer, use of music in treatment, and role of therapist.
Outline: Understanding Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: An Introduction
1. Introduction to KAP
a.) Overview/Indications
b.) Protocols
c.) Signatures of Ketamine as a dissociative and antidepressant
2. Non-ordinary States in Therapy
a.) Definition of non-ordinary states.
b.) Distinction between dissociative, psycholytic and psychedelic states
c.) Possible challenging experiences
d.) Potential therapeutic role of these states
3. Treatment Settings for KAP/Medical Providers
a.) Medical Setting/clinic
b.) Therapeutic Setting
c.) Group/Retreat
d.) At home
4. Routes of Administration
a.) Overview of 4 routes and their relationship to setting.
b.) Comparisons and patient experiences
5. Key Components of KAP Treatment
a.) Appropriateness of treatment (psychological and physiological)
b.) Preparation sessions
6. Key Principals of KAP treatment
a.) Set and Setting
b.) Reverence for clients inner healer
c.) Role of therapist and impact on therapeutic relationship
d.) Neuroplasticity, expanding thresholds of tolerance and perspectives, reducing reactivity, utilizing critical windows for growth and repair.
e.) Use of music in treatment
7. Conclusion
a.) Present role of KAP and other Psychedelic Assisted Therapies
b.) Practical applications and education/training opportunities.
8. Q & A
This course demonstrates credibility through support from mental health practices, current educational standards, and current research. This topic is highly relevant as Ketamine Assisted Therapy and other Psychedelic Assisted Therapies are currently emerging as innovative and effective treatment options for mental health conditions. Practitioners need to be well-trained, as approval continues to be researched and patients seek alternative treatment options This course meets the definition of an evidence-based practice.
The target population for this training is Licensed Mental Health Professionals. Evidence-based practice for this subject includes a plethora of examples, including numerous clinical trials, patient reported outcome, neurobiological research and establishment of guidelines and protocols by professional organizations and institutions. This course is consistent with the professions' current standard of care. The educational value of best practices inform mental health professionals, the public and other interest parties regarding desirable professional practices. This course is consistent with ethical, legal, statutory and regulatory standards.
References:
Dore, Turnispeed, et al. “Ketamine Assisted Psychotehrapy (KAP): Patient Demographics, Clinical Data and Outcomes in Three Large Practices Administering Ketamine with Psychotherapy” Journal of Psychoactive Drugs Apr-Jun 2019; 51(2):189-198
Gold, Veronika and Sienknecht, Eric. “Ambassadors to Hidden Territories: Set and Setting in Psychedlelic-Assisted Psychotherapy.” Charcuna, 31 July 2020
Grob, C.S., & Grigsby, J. (2021) Handbook of Medical Hallucinogens. The Guilford Press.
Kolp, E., Harris, L.F., Krupitsky, E., Jansen, K., Sylvester, M., Young, M., Kolp, A. (2014) Ketamine Pyschedelic Psychotherapy: Focus on Its Pharmacology, Phenomenology and Clinical Applications. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, 33(2), 112-118
Oxley, M (2023), “Ketamine: Routes of Administration, Safety and Monitoring. Integrative Psychiatry Institute Weekly Lecture, March 14, 202
