Trainings

Interested in adding Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) to your practice? Sign up to learn about this treatment modality from Rena Beyer, the founder and clinical director of Fostering Greatness & the first KAP therapist on the east coast! Rena has been working as a KAP therapist since 2017 and has extensive training in psychedelic psychotherapy with training from Polaris Insight Center, Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI), & the Multi-disciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).

This training is offered live, online, and in four parts with each module being 2.5 hours long. This training is designed to educate therapists on the principles and procedures of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in a clinical setting.

From this training you can expect to learn:

• The history of ketamine and psychedelics in America and the history of psychedelic use
• Ketamine as a medicine – its medical use, its journey into psychiatric use, its FDA approval, the conditions it can treat, how ketamine works in the brain, its effects on the body, how it differs from antidepressants, the different routes of administering it, contraindications to ketamine treatment, & medications that blunt ketamine
• How to use ketamine in combination with therapy, “KAP” – how this is done, best practices, tenets of ketamine therapy, & the different types of sessions (preparation, medicine, and integration)
• Proper consultation and intake protocols
• Ketamine’s abuse potential & effects
• Ethics of ketamine therapy
• Cultural competency in ketamine therapy