Psychedelics + Therapy = Potent Possibility
An overview for therapists and therapy-savvy people interested in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for their own healing journeys.
There is a lot of buzz about psychedelics, therapy and healing, but it's hard to get the lay of the land as a client or therapist. One of Mt. Airy's own, Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW, wrote the book on it: Prepare Yourself, Your Clients and Your Practice for Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy: A Step by Step Guide.
Karen will join us with her colleague Dr. Sophia Brandstetter, LCSW, PsyD, to share ideas and answer questions on how to explore ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for your own healing journey; and for therapists, what it looks like to weave it into your work with clients. To RSVP for this event, please email events@bigbluemarblebooks.com or call the store.
The book offers a concrete, detailed, organized lay of the land of ketamine assisted psychotherapy for client and therapist alike:
How to use intention setting to prepare fo a healing-focused psychedelic experience
What neuroplasticity means and what activities take best advantage of its ripe opportunities
Various protocols to increase primary goal of long term integration of medicine journeys
Explanation of common terms in the psychedelic world like set and setting, inner healing wisdom, psychelytic versus psychedelic, etc.
Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW has worked as an analytically-oriented psychotherapist for over 30 years. She founded and directs Full Living: A Psychotherapy Practice, specializing in thoughtful matches between clients and seasoned clinicians. She co-directs Ketamine Kollaborations which seeks to increase the number of clinicians prepared to work with psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.
Dr. Sophia Brandstetter LCSW, PsyD is the founder of The Ko-Op in Philadelphia, a groundbreaking psychotherapy treatment center providing access to psychedelic healing using Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP). Dr. Branstetter is additionally director of a group psychotherapy practice Growth for Change, and co-director of Ketamine Kollaborations, providing programming for clinicians interested in working with KAP.