The program has provided a safe space to explore aspects of myself that many other mental health services did not touch. The group dynamic creates community, connection and a landing pad to process and build resiliency through the challenges of human nature. By seeing other’s strength and vulnerability, I can see my own with more clarity. The team is beyond open-hearted, knowledgable and supportive. If there is one take-home, having worked in the Western medical system for years, I am full of excitement and hope for the future of mental health with this program being offered and growing. When you have a doctor telling you to ‘listen to your heart’, you know you are in the right place!
Past participant,
Roots to Thrive
Ketamine (group)
A 12 week community of practice program, weaving together the medicines of unconditional positive regard, community, and ketamine assisted therapy to find our way back to wholeness
Prerequisites
- Do you have a diagnosis of PTSD, depression, substance use disorder, anxiety, disordered eating, and/or disordered sleeping that hasn’t shifted as well as you had hoped with medication, therapy, and other approaches?
- Do you have the time, energy, and interest to be an engaged, open-hearted, and consistent participant in a weekly small group?
- If you are parenting, do you have child-care available for weekly meetings and in-person ketamine sessions?
- If you self-medicate with alcohol and/or other substances, is your life stable enough now to allow you to commit to a group process that counts on your being fully present and open-hearted each week?
- Do you have reliable internet for weekly virtual meetings via Zoom?
- Are you able to attend in-person ketamine sessions on Vancouver Island, British Columbia?
Exclusions
- Inability to tolerate group work
- Intense emotional instability
- Active symptoms of psychosis
- High blood pressure (150/90) that is not controlled
- Pregnancy
- Hepatic, kidney, vascular disorder (reviewed on a case-by-case basis)
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Ketamine allergy
Roots to Thrive
Resilience (group)
A 12 week Community of Practice program weaving together the medicine of unconditional positive regard and community to bring us back to wholeness
Prerequisites
- Do you have the time, energy, and interest to be an engaged, open-hearted, and consistent participant in a small group?
- Do you have access to reliable and stable internet to participate in video calls via Zoom?
- If you are parenting, do you have child-care plans for weekly meetings?
- If you self-medicate with alcohol and/or other substances, is your life stable enough now to allow you to commit to a group process that counts on your being fully present and open-hearted each week?
Exclusions
- Inability to tolerate group work
- Intense emotional instability
Roots to Thrive
Roots to Thrive Individual Ketamine
A program built on the foundations of Roots to Thrive (RTT) resilience theory, and customized to serve individual needs, including a range of three to six private ketamine-assisted therapy (KaT) sessions with a therapist and RN. In addition, multiple preparation and integration touch points are offered, as well as tools and resources – all promoting the ability to remember our wholeness, and to live inspired lives.
Prerequisites
- Do you have a diagnosis of PTSD, depression, substance use disorder, anxiety, disordered eating, and/or disordered sleeping that hasn’t shifted as well as you had hoped with medication, therapy, and other approaches?
- Do you have the time, energy, and interest to be an engaged, open-hearted, and consistent participant in a weekly small group?
- If you are parenting, do you have child-care available for virtual meetings and in-person ketamine sessions?
- If you self-medicate with alcohol and/or other substances, is your life stable enough now to allow you to commit to a group process that counts on your being fully present and open-hearted each week?
- Do you have reliable internet for virtual meetings via Zoom?
- Are you able to attend in-person ketamine sessions on Vancouver Island, British Columbia?
Exclusions
- High blood pressure (150/90) that is not controlled
- Pregnancy
- Hepatic, kidney, vascular disorder (reviewed on a case-by-case basis)
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Ketamine allergy
- Intense emotional instability
- Active symptoms of psychosis
Roots to Thrive
Experiential Training in Ketamine-assisted Therapy
Roots to Thrive (RTT) Experiential Intensive Training is designed for clinicians and therapists with at least two years of professional experience in mental health and who already have a documented basic level of training in psychedelic theory, who are seeking a lived experience with psychedelic medicine and an opportunity to apply theoretical principals to practice in a supervised practice environment. This 52 hour training is a blend of virtual and in-person sessions for an experience preparing for, supporting others in non-ordinary states (via ketamine as the psychedelic agent), receiving support in non-ordinary states, and integration processes for self and others.
Prerequisites
Do you have a mental health condition that hasn’t shifted as well as you had hoped with medication, therapy, and other approaches?
Medical intake screen required to participate in the Experiential Training. Applicants are required to complete a thorough medical intake to determine eligibility into the program.
Before applying to this program, you must have completed psychedelic-assisted therapy (PaT) theory training. To ensure an equitable theoretical floor to build off of, all participants must demonstrate previously acquired training in:
- Personal development/mental health requirements to ensure safe and ethical PaT care.
- PaT history and political landscape.
- Cultural humility, inclusion, and equity informed PaT.
- Therapeutic Presence in PaT
- The mechanisms and processes involved in providing PaT.
- Applying research and other culturally informed ways of knowing to PaT.
- Trauma informed care.
- Common therapeutic models applied in PaT.
- Attachment theory application to PaT.
- Transference /Countertransference.
Exclusions
- Inadequate theory preparation.
- Lack of practice experience in the field of mental health.
- Inability to tolerate group work
- Intense emotional instability
- Active symptoms of psychosis
- High blood pressure (150/90) that is not controlled
- Pregnancy
- Hepatic, kidney, vascular disorder (reviewed on a case-by-case basis)
- Delirium
- Dementia
- Ketamine allergy
