Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy
Certificate Program
The Concierge Approach to
Psychedelic Psychotherapy Training
Extensive Psychedelic Experience
We believe that direct experience is necessary to develop your skills and responsibly step in to doing this intimate work with clients. Trainees will participate in a minimum of seven altered state experiences throughout the program. You will experience the differing effects of varying doses, routes of administration, and set and setting variables. This will allow each trainee to become familiar with navigating the non-ordinary states of consciousness themselves. Each experience will build on those prior, with increasingly complex learning embedded throughout.
Clinical Practicum
You will have 15 separate opportunities to sit for others in the role of a therapist, both with fellow trainees and actual clinic patients in a treatment program. Each of these will be actively supervised by experienced psychedelic therapists during and after sessions. You will also act as staff intern for a 4 day training retreat, gaining hands-on experience with group facilitation.
Working With Clients
As the training evolves, you will have the opportunity to act as lead therapist for patients in our existing Asheville, NC clinic or in a clinic local to you. This will begin with the intake process and continue through the entire course of treatment, enabling trainees to experience the full arc of treatment with a real clients in an actual clinic setting. You will have one on one supervision with a staff member who will support your work with the client, coaching you through real life clinical encounters.
Mentoring & Supervision
We offer the highest level of one-on-one mentoring of any training program. Our program focuses on strong personal mentoring relationships between trainees and teachers.
Signi
Goldman, M.D.
Dr. Signi Goldman is a board certified Psychiatrist and psychotherapist in private practice. She is a certified provider for Psychedelic Assisted Therapies and Research through the California Institute of Integral Studies and has completed training through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). Her extensive knowledge of research-based use of psychedelics in medicine informs Concierge Medicine and Psychiatry’s Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy program for Mental Health.
Dr. Goldman has been practicing outpatient Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy for many years and has more recently focused on teaching and training in this field through her video teaching series and certificate program. In addition to extensive psychedelic medicine experience, Dr. Goldman is a trained Rites of Passage guide through the Rites of Passage Council in Asheville, NC and has a profound respect for the intersection of psychedelic medicine, nature-connection, and indigenous, ceremonial ways of healing.
Sandra
Newes, Ph.D.
Dr. Sandra Newes is a Licensed Psychologist with over 25 years of clinical experience. She specializes in anxiety, chronic stress, trauma and recovery. Dr. Newes is an experienced psychedelic-assisted psychotherapist and provides individualized protocols for Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy through Concierge Medicine and Psychiatry. She brings a trauma informed and resiliency focused approach to the work and is certified through Concierge Medicine and Psychiatry’s Certificate program, where she is currently a co-facilitator. She has also participated in training through the Polaris Institute, Chacruna Institute, the PRATI institute and others, and is a member of the Boston Psychedelic Research Group.
Dr. Newes participates in speaking engagements, publications, training workshops, and educational training on the intersection of nature connection, trauma and mental health nationally and internationally. She is past Chair of the Therapeutic Adventure Professional Group (TAPG) of the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) and also offers training to staff at therapeutic programs.
Meidad Goldman, M.D.
Dr. Meidad Goldman is a board certified physician in both Emergency Medicine and Addiction Medicine who has worked in multiple hospital- and clinic-based settings. He is an experienced psychedelic medicine provider, with years of experience administering individualized dosing protocols for Ketamine as part of a psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy care team. He is a certified provider for Psychedelic Assisted Therapies and Research through the California Institute of Integral Studies and has completed training through the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS).
Dr. Goldmam has over 17 years of experience using Ketamine for multiple conditions and serves as Medical Director for Concierge Medicine and Psychiatry’s Asheville Ketamine Clinic. Dr. Goldman offers provider trainings in the prescribing and administering of Ketamine as a psychedelic and is a co-facilitator in our Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Certificate Program. His extensive experience being in the room with clients has given him a deep understanding of working safely with clients in altered states, and he is dedicated to teaching this body of knowledge to our trainees.
Community Cohort
We believe in a closed container approach to training, where cohorts of trainees work together over time and develop trust, confidentiality, and a mutual support network. Training in this work is both challenging and personally rewarding, and having a trusted support group provides emotional safety, so that trainees can safely experience the often vulnerable and emotional aspects of the journey. Because the people you experience this learning journey with are such an important part of your experience, we have an thorough application and screening process to make sure that those we admit are appropriate for the intensive learning environment.
Components
Level One and Level Two are offered separately, with Level One only available through scheduled cohorts. Completion of Level One is required to participate in Level Two, which is scheduled according to your individual needs. You will receive a certificate for completion of Level One and a final graduation certificate for completing the full training- both levels one and two. We do not currently have CEU credit available. Further clinical supervision and career mentoring is optional after completion of training.
Level 1 Training
Includes full didactics and multiple experiential ketamine sessions woven into a curriculum designed to enhance both styles of learning, delivering real world practice skills as well as personally meaningful work with ketamine as a medicine.
Cost and application information here.
Note also that trainees who have participated in an Introductory Retreat will receive credit towards Level One and prorated tuition. More information is available on our training page for the Winter Level One curriculum.
Level 2 Training
Career Mentoring & Ongoing Supervision
Many trainees move into this phase after completion of Level Two or overlapping with it. We offer one-on-one mentoring on all aspects of practice development, including clinic set up, consulting with medical staff, business planning, navigating billing and marketing, and much more to help you to launch into practice, whether it be in an existing clinic, starting a clinic, or developing a private practice. This service is individualized to your needs.
Note: We do provide this as a freestanding service, separate from our training program. However, we find we work best with those who are familiar with our way of approaching KAP work from having been through our training.
Thank you for your interest in our
Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Certificate Program!
We welcome your interest and are glad you are considering joining us for this innovative and experientially oriented training program.
This program is intended for trained clinical professionals who are interested in learning advanced, cutting-edge techniques in how to effectively work with psychedelic altered states in clinical settings.
Growing as a psychedelic therapist is best done in community and through trusted mentoring relationships. Each training starts with an exclusive cohort that has been individually selected after having met our admissions criteria. With close mentoring and supervision, your cohort will move through the process together, supporting each other through this intensive learning process and practice.
We believe direct experience with this medicine is an essential foundation from which to build a practice in psychedelic medicine. The intent is for you to not only learn how to effectively use ketamine, but also to experience first-hand the powerful effects of the medicine. Therefore, each training cohort will participate in seven to eight individual and group ketamine journeys to develop a felt sense of the different methods of administration and dose ranges. Guided by our experienced staff, the processing of these personal experiences will further inform your ongoing training and supervision.
In terms of direct client care, you will progress to recieveing guidance and supervision doing altered state work with clients in our outpatient clinic. As you progress through the program, you will become increasingly autonomous in this work. One-on-one supervision by an expert therapist is available throughout. This allows us to meet you where you are at with your existing skills, while also supporting you in developing your own unique skill sets and ability to work with increasing independence. Our goal is that by the time you have graduated from our program, you will have already worked autonomously in multiple psychedelic sessions.
You will graduate this certificate program confident, fully prepared, and ready to immediately begin your practice in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. You will know you have had more training time in altered state work than graduates from any other training program, and you will have benefitted from direct supervision from some of the most experienced clinical professionals in the country. This will allow you to quickly develop your own unique niche at the cutting edge of this rapidly growing field.
HOW DO I APPLY?
The following are the requirements for admission:
1. Application and Interview process.
2. Ability to commit to the full calendar or programming with your cohort. Due to the importance we place on developing the container for the training, there will be no exceptions to this.
3. Nonrefundable deposit of $500 with first tuition installment due two weeks before start of didactics. Payment information provided upon application. See training pages for cost information.
We will then contact you to set up a 20 minute video interview.
YES, I WANT IN!What People Are Saying
Check out what just some of our past trainees are saying about their Ketamine Assisted Therapy experience.
"This training was transformative and impactful experiential learning. Very well done."
"It was exactly what I needed. It was super educational and personally transformative."
"Every member of the staff was extremely qualified and just overall awesome. I highly recommend this program."