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The Ketamine Training Center

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United States

Founded by Phil Wolfson (author of The Ketamine Papers), the Ketamine Training Center is a San Anselmo, California pioneer in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy training, offering 6-day immersive residential retreats that blend theoretical and experiential learning, awarding 30 AMA Category I CME credits. They have trained over 800 practitioners across the US in a collaborative model emphasizing the provider's personal ketamine experience.

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Blossom’s read

The Ketamine Training Center sits as one of the older, more lineage-heavy KAP training outfits in the US, closely tied to Phil Wolfson and the Ketamine Research Foundation. It looks strongest for clinicians and adjacent professionals who want a highly experiential, retreat-based introduction to a collaborative ketamine-assisted psychotherapy model rather than a purely academic or online course. The tone is intentionally holistic and community-oriented, with ritual, mindfulness and personal medicine experience built into the pedagogy, though the organisation’s own claims about being the field’s “premier” body should be read as self-description rather than neutral consensus.

Who The Ketamine Training Center is for

Best for licensed or nearly licensed clinicians, prescribers, psychotherapists, clergy and hospice providers who want to work in a team-based KAP model. It seems especially suited to people seeking an immersive, practice-building retreat rather than a brief introductory course.

Prerequisites

Applicants must complete a reading list before training. The site says only professionals or those nearing licensure with advanced degrees, licences or ordinations may apply, including physicians/psychiatrists, counsellors, MFTs, LCSWs, nurses, nurse practitioners, naturopathic doctors, physician assistants, psychologists and certain hospice staff; psychotherapy/clergy/hospice applicants are expected to identify a prescribing physician for the team-based model.

Accreditation & recognition

The main site says it has arranged with PeerPoint to provide a certificate of training and that the training provides 30 AMA Category I credits, with the CE fee embedded in tuition. An older site page states the activity was planned with PeerPoint Medical Education Institute under ACCME requirements and designated for a maximum of 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Cost

The current site says $150 of the CE fee is embedded in tuition. For a specific 4-day Garrison Institute retreat page, MD tuition is listed at $4,500 and other professions at $3,000, plus accommodation and optional CME/CE payment. The application fee page says there is a $100 non-refundable application fee and a $400 refundable deposit towards the programme cost. A scholarship page says BIPOC applicants may receive at least a 25% cost reduction.

What you walk away with

Participants receive a certificate of training and, where applicable, 30 AMA Category I CME credits. The programme aims to build practical competency in collaborative KAP, including early competency with sublingual lozenges and intramuscular ketamine, team-based practice design, case consultation, integration work and exposure to a defined KAP methodology.

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