Join us in Los Angeles, from January 18 – 21, 2024, for this transformative training experience.
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This unique four-day training experience is designed to empower therapists like you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to incorporate ketamine-assisted therapy (KAT) into your practice and help your clients achieve deeper, longer-lasting results.
Our program combines didactic presentations with experiential components in a retreat-style setting, giving you the opportunity to work in dyads as well as large and small groups. With support from our expert medical and therapeutic faculty, you’ll explore the biological, chemical, neurological, emotional, and spiritual aspects of ketamine medicine and gain practical skills and hands-on knowledge in guiding clients through non-ordinary states of consciousness, eliciting transformative sessions, and creating playlists for KAT.
The program includes two optional ketamine experiences (intramuscular) supported by a fellow trainee and contingent upon medical approval, as well as in-depth training in KAT and psychedelic medicine preparation and integration. You’ll also learn best practices for dosing and routes of administration, clinical care of severely depressed and suicidal individuals, ethics and diversity considerations, and the role of ceremony and ritual in KAT.
Two optional ketamine experiences (intramuscular) supported by a fellow trainee and contingent upon medical approval.
In-depth training in KAT.
Psychedelic medicine preparation and integration.
You’ll also learn best practices for dosing and routes of administration.
Clinical care of severely depressed and suicidal individuals, ethics and diversity considerations.
The role of ceremony and ritual in KAT.
January 18 -21, 2024
Los Angeles, California
$2950
Founder, Connected Heart Therapy
Founder, Connected Heart Therapy
MEDICAL DIRECTOR/FOUNDER
Founder
We support you! Compassionate, inclusive and equitable care for our diverse LGBTQ community.
If you or someone you know is struggling or in crisis, you can call or text 988 or chat at 988lifeline.org (The Suicide and Crisis Prevention Lifeline). Additionally, you can reach out to the Mental Health Partners crisis line at 1-844-493-8255. For life-threatening emergencies, please call 911.
Founder, Connected Heart Therapy
Robin is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and MAPS trained in MDMA assisted therapy. She runs a thriving private practice in Austin, Tx. She has over 20 years of experience working with individuals and couples, adolescents and adults. She is a certified EMDR therapist in Austin and registered with EMDRIA, an EMDR consultant who facilitates EMDR basic trainings and is trained in Systems Centered Therapy and Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR/FOUNDER
Wendy Byrd is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Professional Counselor. She maintains a successful private practice in Austin, Texas. As an EMDRIA-certified therapist and approved consultant, Wendy utilizes EMDR in her practice on a daily basis. Prior to opening her practice in 2007, she worked with
adolescents and children in a residential treatment facility conducting individual and
group psychotherapy.
MEDICAL DIRECTOR/FOUNDER
Dr. Jonathan Reitman is board-certified in both internal medicine and addiction medicine, serving as the long-term medical director of a hospital-based detox program well as three residential facilities licensed for the treatment of chemical dependence and mental health disorders. He earned his medical degree from UC San Francisco and completed his residency in internal medicine at UCLA Medical Center.
He has worked with patients for twenty years, and his extensive experience administering ketamine in his private practice in Beverly Hills, California has led him to see the benefit of Mindfield Wellness and its concierge, personalized approach. With ketamine therapy, he is especially excited to offer hope to those who have despaired of finding relief from what conventional medical treatments have to offer.
Dr. Reitman is known for his compassionate and humane approach to his patients, and he strives to help those whose needs have not been met by our fragmented medical system.
FOUNDER
Ed Bates has enjoyed a thriving career in the arts & entertainment industry as a producer, writer, director, film distributor and educator.
In 2020, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Bates started a medical company, The Safe Set. The Safe Set designed and operated contact tracing programs for Netflix and Buzzfeed, and ran production mitigation programs and testing strategies for many other entertainment companies, allowing scores of film industry professionals to safely return to work.
When Covid vaccines became available at the end of 2020, Bates immediately devoted The Safe Set to vaccinations: The Safe Set vaccinated thousands of school children and underserved adults in Los Angeles County. For months, Bates’ company vaccinated the students and their families in L.A. Unified School District, Santa Monica & Malibu School Districts, numerous independent schools and operated his own vaccination clinic in South Los Angeles.
Bates has been interested for many years in the growing proof that psychedelic medicines show significant success in treating mental illness when combined with therapy. During 2020, a friend of Bates’ had become deeply depressed and had not been helped by any other therapies and that he had slipped into a hopeless state of suicidality. Bates was profoundly relieved when one day his friend called with an entirely new outlook and attitude of positivity towards his life: his friend told him that a series of ketamine infusions, along with therapy, had led to this miraculous change. That day, Bates’ journey to understanding the power of psychedelics to help patients with mental illness began, along with his mission to bring this powerful treatment to patients in need.
