Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Guided Externship Program

The Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy Guided Externship Program is an 8-week in-person externship from the Institute for Integrative Therapies. It is designed to support training in the fundamentals of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, including ketamine’s mechanisms of action, safe delivery of KAP, and general psychedelic research. The program is cohort-based and includes weekly case consultation meetings with IIT Medical and Mental Health Leadership, two individual consultations during the first eight weeks, four 90-minute didactic/consultation groups, and shadowing of IIT medical and therapy staff in preparation therapy, ketamine medicine therapy, and integration therapy. It is intended for people who have completed IIT’s 4-day online training, or comparable training elsewhere, and who are seeking to join IIT in providing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. The source states that applicants must hold independent licenses to practice in Minnesota.