Education & Training Options At Sana Healing Collective
Psychedelic Harm Reduction 101 Resources
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Psychedelic Integration and Harm Reduction: Supporting Clients Who Use Psychedelics.
Presented by Geoff Bathje, Ph.D.
Recorded on Wednesday, February 26, 2025.
Cost: $30
This presentation will focus on supporting clients who use psychedelic substances via harm reduction and “integration” (the ongoing processing of such experiences). We will review risk and safety, ethics of supporting clients around their use, and a holistic model of integration.
More specifically, this program will discuss the risk factors and harm reduction strategies associated with psychedelic substances while using clinical scenarios to examine the ethical and legal guidelines of psychedelic use. Additionally, this program will compare various models of integration in order to better synthesize a holistic approach. This presentation will draw from two well-read articles by the presenter.
This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 1.5 CEs for Psychologists, 1.5 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, 1.5 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSWs, and LMFTs, or 1.5 NBCC Clock Hours*. (*NBCC Clock Hours are available for live program attendance only.)
Introduction to Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
Presented by Geoff Bathje, PhD
Recorded on Thursday, September 12, 2024
Cost: $30
Ketamine can amplify emotional experience and access to memory, while disrupting defenses, creating what has been called a “pivotal state” where change is possible in a therapeutic set and setting. Yet, ketamine is often administered without the inclusion of psychotherapists, who are in an optimal position to help the client navigate this heightened state for therapeutic benefit, if they have adequate training to do so.
During this session, participants will learn the basics of creating a therapeutic set and setting for ketamine administration, the process of preparation and integration to help the client make optimal use of the experience, and screening for psychological fit with this treatment. We will review various models of practice, expanding beyond a biomedical approach, essential elements of a KAP treatment protocol, the role of “integration” in processing psychedelic experiences, and the opportunity to ask questions.
This program, when attended in its entirety, offers 1.5 CEs for Psychologists, 1.5 IL CEUS for Counselors and Social Workers, or 1.5 BBS California CEUs for LPCCs, LPSWs, and LMFTs.
Psychedelic Therapy for Underserved Populations: Assessing Risks and Benefits
We are super excited to announce this training opportunity our co-founder, Vilmarie, developed with training partner, Irina Alexander, LMFT of Alchemy Community Therapy Center for Psychedelic.Support!
Course Description:
“Join us in this course to explore how to make psychedelic therapy safely and equitably accessible to clients from underserved communities, particularly those affected by the war on drugs.
In the age of psychedelic water, Facebook mushroom ads, and ketamine yoga, it’s hard to know what’s what. While “accessibility” should be a means towards equity, the intersection of capitalism and psychedelics has led to an interest in profit over ethical client care. “Accessible” psychedelic treatments are more readily available, but at what psychological cost?
Psychedelic medicines can be powerful tools that amplify the subconscious, lower defenses, and help people connect with more vulnerable parts of themselves. As such, this modality must be approached with care, especially when working to make these treatments more accessible to people who use drugs and other systematically-oppressed populations.
As co-founders of two nonprofit psychedelic therapy clinics, we will frame the course from our experiences of building sliding-scale clinics that work with clients who are often left out of the conversations within the psychedelic therapy space.
We review the impacts of the war on drugs on populations we work with, the current cultural context of psychedelic therapy, how we weave harm reduction approaches into our practice, and the risks of psychedelics (within and outside of therapy). We provide a culturally-sensitive tool for how to “assess clients in” for services.”
Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) consultation Group
Sana Healing Collective facilitates 6-month Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Consultation Groups biannually.
We offer TWO levels of our consultation group.
The advanced group is intended for experienced psychotherapy providers with at least 5 years of clinical practice after graduate school, and who have facilitated at least 50 KAP sessions. We are open to all routes of administration. Participants are expected to have completed a KAP or PAT training program.
The beginner group is most appropriate to those who have facilitated fewer than 50 KAP sessions, and is open to practitioners who have not yet begun ketamine practice but intend to do so by the time the group concludes. Clinicians with all levels of therapy experience are welcome. The group is also appropriate to non-therapists who want to provide better psychological support to their ketamine patients. This group will augment prior KAP or PAT training, but is not meant to replace it. We ask that all participants have completed at least a basic KAP or PAT training.
Take a look at our events page to find out when we are enrolling for the next groups!
The cost of the groups is $600, with early bird rates available until June (and additional discounts available). We intend to offer 9 CEs for these groups.
General consultation and training
Want to have us speak about psychedelics at your event? We have a broad base of knowledge and can speak about a variety of topics related to psychedelics, including but not limited to psychedelic-assisted therapy, safety/harm reduction, set and setting, music, mind-body relationship, culture, and social justice issues. We speak free of charge whenever we can for free public events and conferences, and can also discuss speaking at paid events. For speaking inquiries, please fill out our Contact form.
psychedelic safety, support, and integration
Monthly meetings are focused on building community among people interested in psychedelics. We acknowledge that people use psychedelics for a variety of reasons, including but not limited to personal healing, recreation, connecting with others, creativity, and spirituality. Regardless of the reason for consuming psychedelics, there is a common need for safety, and sometimes for support or integration of psychedelic experiences.