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🎯 The goal of this training is to equip providers—across disciplines and licensure levels—with the tools, skills, and confidence to use mindfulness as a supportive framework in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAT) including ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP). Mindfulness offers natural synergies with PAT / KAP and can significantly enhance both the safety and therapeutic depth of the ketamine experience.
These practices also serve as inner resources for clinicians, helping you to hold space with presence and attunement, while offering clients a grounded sense of safety and co-regulation—whether they are navigating challenges or experiencing moments of profound insight.
This training unfolds in three parts:
1. Foundations – We begin by exploring key definitions and the core principles that mindfulness and PAT / KAP share.
2. Trauma-Informed Mindfulness – In this section, we deepen our understanding of how to apply mindfulness in a way that is sensitive to trauma and supports nervous system regulation.
3. Mindfulness Throughout the PAT / KAP Process – We explore how mindfulness can be applied during each phase of the process, including individual and group work—preparation, active sessions, and integration—as well as how it can support you, the clinician, in staying grounded and resourced.
Table of Contents
THE BASICS
1. Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy and Mindfulness Suitability
2. Why Mindfulness for PAT / KAP? Shared Mechanisms and Points of Synergy
A. Trauma-Informed Benefits of Combining PAT / KAP and Mindfulness
B. Beneficial Changes to Brain Structure and Connectivity
3. What is Mindfulness Exactly?
TRAUMA-INFORMED MINDFULNESS PRINCIPLES
1. How to Help Your Clients (And Yourself) to Fly with Both Wings
A. Trauma-Informed Mindfulness for Safe, Attuned KAP
B. The Five Principles of Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness (TSM)
C. Mindfulness Without Racial Literacy Can Cause Harm
D. The Role of the Teacher or Facilitator
🧘HOW TO INTEGRATE PRACTICES– TRAUMA INFORMED PRINCIPLES
2. Mindfulness Myths and Facts
A. Five Facts: What Mindfulness Is and Is Not
B. Foundational Practices
THE HOW AND WHAT
1. Your client’s journey begins the moment they reach out to you
Intake
🧘HOW TO INTEGRATE PRACTICES – INTAKE SESSION
Psychological “Set and Setting” Preparation
🧘HOW TO INTEGRATE PRACTICES – PREPARATION SESSIONS
2. Mindfulness as an Anchor During Altered States
🧘HOW TO INTEGRATE PRACTICES – ACTIVE SESSIONS
3. Mindful Processing, Integration, and Lasting Change
🧘HOW TO INTEGRATE PRACTICES– INTEGRATION SESSIONS
Suggested Reading
Further Reading and References
Katja Cahoon LCSW MBA started her career leading year-long closed trauma groups. In addition to ketamine assisted psychotherapy groups she is a yoga and mindfulness teacher who builds mindfulness into her practice and has guided many different kinds of mindfulness and meditation groups. She works as a lead therapist for FDA approved Phase I and III clinical studies (5-MeO-DMT and psilocybin) both in individual and group settings. She is a supervisor for Phase III groups. She trained with Polaris Insight Center and MAPS, Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield (MMTCP), EMDR Institute, Syzygy (IFS for EMDR) and others and is committed to helping others grow in this field. She has trained over 200 clinicians in Group KAP.