EMDR Advanced Training
EMDR & Ketamine Integration: A Path to Deep Healing
Trainer:Â Molly Pike
Live: July 17th, 2025 at 11:00 AM MTN (Denver) | Available on-demand after
Do you find yourself curious about Ketamine experiences? Perhaps you've had clients share about their journeys with you, but you're unsure how to support their integration process. You feel most comfortable within the familiar framework of EMDR, but wonder how to leverage these skills as a powerful integration tool for psychedelic experiences, or even where to begin.
You’re in luck! EMDR offers a beautiful framework to help clients process, integrate, and embody the profound experiences that emerge during ketamine sessions. EMDR is a natural companion for ketamine integration work. If you're ready to explore best practices for how to skillfully bridge these powerful modalities by finding natural points of integration and intervention points, learn how to adapt EMDR protocols, and enhance your clients' healing journey by connecting their non-ordinary states of consciousness with lasting therapeutic change – this course is for you.
 This course will be recorded on July 17th, 2025.
Available for synchronous or asynchronous on-demand learning.
The Science Behind EMDR & Ketamine
COURSE DETAILS
The course begins with an in-depth review of ketamine’s pharmacology, dissociative effects, and its therapeutic role in mental health care. By exploring these aspects, you’ll gain renewed insights into how ketamine experiences can be effectively integrated with EMDR therapy, helping you to approach cases with a clearer perspective. This understanding is crucial for recognizing when clients are ready to engage in this combined approach and for identifying any blocks to processing. Â
In addition to theory, we’ll focus on refining your skills across EMDR’s eight phases, with dedicated time for each stage. From the critical preparation and assessment phases to the desensitization and installation phases, you’ll review and practice the specific techniques that make each stage effective in the context of KAP. This review helps you maintain fluency in the EMDR process, ensuring that sessions flow smoothly and clients experience the full benefit of the therapy.  Â
The course also addresses common challenges in integrating EMDR with KAP, including managing dissociation, working within clients’ windows of tolerance, and handling abreactions. We’ll cover updated strategies to navigate these challenges, ensuring you have the tools to keep clients grounded and engaged. Through practical exercises and case discussions, you’ll learn how to adapt EMDR protocols to meet each client’s unique needs in the context of KAP.
Finally, this integration training emphasizes peer learning and collaboration, offering a supportive space to share experiences and refine your techniques. By the end of the course, you’ll feel empowered to bring refreshed skills and confidence back to your practice. Join us to revisit, refine, and strengthen your EMDR practice, enabling you to guide clients toward healing with renewed clarity and purpose.
SCHEDULE
- 11:00 - 11:10 am - Introductions and Orientation
- 11:10 - 11:55 am - Overview of Ketamine Treatment: Benefits, Research, Dosing, Ethics, Contraindications
- 11:55 - 12:00 pm - Break
- 12:00 - 12:30pm - Overview of Ketamine Assisted Therapy: Set, Setting, & Integration
- 12:30 pm -1:00 pm- Ketamine Assisted Therapy and Phase 1 Considerations
- 1:00 - 1:10 pm - Break
- 1:10-1:50 pm - Ketamine Assisted Therapy and Phase 2
- 1:50 - 2:30 - Post Ketamine Dosing & EMDR Application Points
- 2:30 - 2:35 - Break
- 2:35-3:00 - Re-evaluation of the work
- 3-3:30- Wrap up & Q&A
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
- Understand the mechanisms of Ketamine and its therapeutic potential in psychotherapy
- Identify three ways to weave EMDR techniques into the Ketamine integration process
- Identify neurobiological and theoretical synergies between EMDR and ketamine therapy
- Recognize appropriate candidates for this combined approach
ABOUT YOUR TRAINER, REBECCA KASE
Molly Pike is a licensed professional counselor based in Denver, Colorado. With a deep commitment to lifelong learning, she loves exploring the synergies in evidence-based and experiential modalities to support her clients’ healing journeys. Molly has been practicing EMDR since 2016 and was trained in Ketamine-Assisted Therapy through The Transpersonal Research Institute of Psychotherapeutic Psychedelics (TRIPP) in 2023 after experiencing the transformative benefits of Ketamine herself.
In her practice, Molly specializes in EMDR, including intensive half-day sessions, Ketamine Integration, Internal Family Systems, and loves the somatic and mindfulness-based elements of these modalities. She works with clients to address interpersonal trauma and attachment issues, helping them reconnect with themselves and others in healthier, more meaningful ways. Molly views therapy as a collaborative process where clients are empowered to bring their whole selves into the healing work.
As a Consultant and Basic Training Facilitator for the Trauma Therapist Institute, Molly is passionate about creating a safe, non-judgmental space for other trauma therapists to learn and grow. She strives to lead with humor, openness, and authenticity, encouraging her colleagues to do the same as they deepen their understanding of trauma and expand their ability to support others.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
