Polaris Insight Center offers training in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy through live online didactics, in-person experiential retreats, consultation, and a certificate pathway. The program covers KAP principles, protocol, ethics, and related work with non-ordinary states of consciousness.
Polaris
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2 year
Polaris Insight Center offers a training program in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy that combines live online didactic instruction, in-person experiential retreats, consultation, and a certificate program. The didactic training includes webinars on fundamental, advanced, and special topics in KAP. It is designed for physicians, psychologists, therapists, nurses, chaplains, and other healthcare professionals, and addresses principles and procedures for working with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in clinical settings. The program also includes five-day experiential retreats offered with Rainfall Medicine, where participants practice the KAP protocol, including intake, preparation, treatment, and integration. Consultation is available for practitioners building or expanding a KAP practice. The certificate pathway is described as a 1-2 year program for practitioners seeking to demonstrate competence in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
Physicians, psychologists, therapists, nurses, chaplains, and other healthcare professionals interested in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy.
Some modules, such as Ethics and Healing the Healer, do not require prior KAP training. Other prerequisite requirements are not stated.
Polaris Insight Center is a San Francisco Bay Area ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic and APA-approved training center co-founded by MAPS-trained therapist Veronika Gold LMFT, offering a comprehensive KAP training program of online didactic modules, in-person experiential retreats, consultation groups, and a 1–2 year practitioner certificate. The center provides KAP patient care while training clinicians across foundational, advanced, and special topics series in ketamine and psychedelic-assisted therapy.
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