From agency and insurance treatment plans with operationalized objectives to EMDR targets and positive cognitions, DBT’s life-worth-living goals and values-to-goals action steps, intention-setting in psychedelic therapies, and ACT values work, ours is a field that understands the imperative of intentionality.

What most of us have also learned is that talk alone rarely produces a client who is fully engaged and available for lived, embodied experience. A well-articulated goal can still sit inert in the body. This 3-hour workshop asks what happens when intention is not only clarified but enacted. We’ll draw on the frames the clinicians in the room already use to build and clarify goals, explore how to fill an intention with felt meaning, and demonstrate how ritual gives it weight and staying power.

Together, we will enter ritual space and build our own intentions for the New Year, pooling the room’s collective knowledge of frames, techniques, and tips. As we create spell jars and satchel charms, we’ll survey goal-clarifying strategies from across clinical frames, unpack what each step of the ritual is doing clinically, and explore how to bring it to clients.

Continuing Education

Wanderhome Retreats, #2794, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 6/26/26–6/26/27. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits.

December 4, 10 AM to 1 PM
Glenside, PA 19038
Bountiful food and all supplies provided
$130
Get Witchy and CEU’s!

This is a live event. Upon purchase you will get all the additional details. To get the 3 CEUs you will need to sign in to the event, attend full session and provide an evaluation at the end at which point your certificate will be sent via email.

We are forever setting intentions. New Year’s resolutions, fresh-start promises, the quiet vows we make to ourselves at the turn of the calendar. And most of us have learned that naming what we want rarely makes it so. A well-articulated goal can still sit inert in the body.

This gathering asks what happens when intention is not only named but enacted. Ritual gives an intention weight and staying power. It moves a wish out of our heads and into our hands, our bodies, and the room.

Together, we will enter ritual space and build our intentions for the New Year. We’ll open the threshold, give our intentions form through symbolic action, seal them, and explore how to tend them through the year ahead. As we create spell jars and satchel charms, we’ll lean on each other, pooling what we know, witnessing what we each want to call in, and holding it together.

Definitely woo-woo. Also grounded by a psychotherapist, in my witchy home.

December 13, 2:30 to 5:30 PM
Glenside, PA 19038
Bountiful food and all supplies provided
$130
Let’s get Witchy

This is a live event. Upon purchase you will be sent all the details :)

Substance use history — active addiction, active sobriety, complicated relationships with alcohol or drugs — is one of the most common and most nuanced considerations in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Whether you are a clinician thinking through a client's candidacy, or someone personally considering KAP and wondering how your own history fits into that picture, this is a conversation worth having with someone who knows this work well.

This 15-minute video addresses that question directly — the clinical considerations, how to think through harm reduction and safety, and what a thoughtful, experienced KAP clinician actually weighs when this comes up.

It is also an opportunity to get a feel for how Karen approaches KAP clinically — her framework, her thinking, her vibe — before investing in any of her larger training or supervision offerings.

From Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW — author of Prepare Yourself, Your Clients and Your Practice: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and clinical director of Full Living.

Digital educational resource. No physical product will be shipped. Access instructions are delivered electronically after purchase.

Getting a KAP practice set up ethically, safely, and with clinical confidence requires a specific set of documents — and building them from scratch takes time most clinicians don't have.

This pack gives you field-tested, ready-to-use materials developed over years of doing this work and training others to do it. Everything is provided in both PDF and Word formats so you can use them as-is or customize them to fit your practice.

Client evaluation for candidacy can begin before the first meeting. Client psychoeducation can begin before the first session. Providing clients with the right information at the right junctures in the onboarding process both deepens their preparation and shortens the time it takes to get there. These documents are designed to do exactly that.

What's included:

Clinical Intake and Screening
Clinical KAP Eligibility Intake

Client Education and Psychoeducation
Client Psychoeducation
Why Ketamine?
3 Ways Ketamine Can Help
Prepare Yourself for a Meaningful Experience
Guideposts for Your Journey
Week-of, Night-of, Day-of Checklist
KAP Support-Person Guide
Sample Journal Conversation Prompts

Client Consents
General Consent
Touch Consent
At-Home Use Consent

These are not generic templates. They reflect a specific, clinically rigorous approach to KAP preparation — one that takes seriously both the power of this medicine and the responsibility of the clinician holding the work.

From Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW — author of Prepare Yourself, Your Clients and Your Practice: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and clinical director of Full Living.

Purchase price credited toward the full KAP Onboarding Training package when it releases.

$28 (or $50 bundled with the KAP Session Demonstration Videos)

Digital educational resource. No physical product will be shipped. Access instructions are delivered electronically after purchase.

Clients and clinicians alike come to this medicine with big hopes. Sometimes it can deliver. But diligent preparation of clients for treatment means a rigorous and sobering conversation about what we can and can not expect. THis video offers a thorough review for anyone considering this treatment, as well as serving as part of a training module for clinicians looking to incorporate KAP in their practice. 

For clinicians interested in KAP as a treatment model, it is also an opportunity to get a feel for how Karen approaches KAP clinically — her framework, her thinking, her vibe — before investing in any of her larger training or supervision offerings.

From Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW — author of Prepare Yourself, Your Clients and Your Practice: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and clinical director of Full Living.

Digital educational resource. No physical product will be shipped. Access instructions are delivered electronically after purchase.

Music and psychedelics seem like a match made in heaven. But do both match well with psychotherapy? Karen asks us to consider a clinical frame and the consequences of adding music. Her snarkiest of opinions in the field, she lays out an argument here for the use of silence in this unique clinical encounter.  

For clinicians interested in KAP as a treatment model, it is also an opportunity to get a feel for how Karen approaches KAP clinically — her framework, her thinking, her vibe — before investing in any of her larger training or supervision offerings.

From Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW — author of Prepare Yourself, Your Clients and Your Practice: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and clinical director of Full Living.— 25-Minute Video

Digital educational resource. No physical product will be shipped. Access instructions are delivered electronically after purchase.

Available for purchase with viewing at your leisure and re-watches as desired: 6.5 hours of instructional video, including over an hour of role-play demonstration of key moments in KAP. Training comes with accompanying Client Intake, Consent, and Support Documents, plus a bonus video on "The Business of KAP." Video and accompanying documents are available for immediate download.

The author of Prepare Yourself, Your Clients and Your Practice for Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy: A Step-by-Step Guide created this complementary training to walk licensed clinicians through everything they need to bring KAP into their outpatient practices.

This training is for clinicians who:

·       Are already KAP trained but can't get answers to the mundane, nuts-and-bolts, concrete information needed to actually operationalize KAP in practice.

·       Are at the start of their journey as a therapist interested in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy — this is a step-by-step instructional guide to working as a KAP therapist, from candidacy evaluations through integration.

·       Are already working as a KAP clinician and want a thorough review, at their own pace.

Includes:

·      Introductory Clinical Overview to KAP

·      Evaluating Clients for Candidacy

·      KAP Onboarding Consents

·      Preparation Sessions

·      Medicine Journey Sessions

·      Integration

·      Bonus: The Business of KAP

Digital educational resource. No physical product will be shipped. Access instructions are delivered electronically after purchase.

Recorded for Profs and Pints Philadelphia, this talk lays out how analytically oriented clinicians use ketamine much like dream work — to collect unconscious material, excavate early relational patterns, and help clients access parts of themselves their own defenses had made difficult to reach.

Karen walks through why clients who've already done a lot of therapy, who already know their own inner landscape, can still get stuck — blocked by mind and body defense systems laid down in infancy, before language and memory, that became default mood processing. She covers three specific features of ketamine that get past those defenses: as an anesthetic, it offers a calmer, less defended, more regulated nervous system for exploring core material; as a dissociative, it lets clients experience a "tripper" and an observing ego simultaneously, strengthening the latter; as a promoter of neuroplasticity, it opens room for new, original thought.

For clinicians curious about KAP as a treatment model, it's also a chance to get a feel for how Karen approaches this work clinically — her framework, her thinking, her vibe — before investing in her larger training or supervision offerings.

From Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW — author of Prepare Yourself, Your Clients and Your Practice: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and clinical director of Full Living.

Digital educational resource. No physical product will be shipped. Access instructions are delivered electronically after purchase.

Do you need to try the medicine yourself? It's one of the standard questions clinicians face when considering work in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Karen's answer is yes. This excerpt from her larger training walks through why firsthand experience matters, and the considerations around when, how, and in what venues to have it.

For clinicians curious about KAP as a treatment model, it's also a chance to get a feel for how Karen approaches this work clinically — her framework, her thinking, her vibe — before investing in her larger training or supervision offerings.

From Karen L. Smith, MSS, LCSW — author of Prepare Yourself, Your Clients and Your Practice: A Step-by-Step Guide to Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and clinical director of Full Living.

Digital educational resource. No physical product will be shipped. Access instructions are delivered electronically after purchase.

Some basic policy questions: How did you determine your service fee? Do you offer a sliding scale? If so, to whom, under what circumstances? What is your late cancellation policy?

Some harder questions: Do you ever feel guilty or underappreciated based on your fee? Is your sliding scale based solely on presenting economics, or do factors like client likability, clinician
guilt, difficulty of the presenting issues, etc. play into your decisions?

And how about late cancellation policies? Are they individually applied, sometimes with internal punitive impulses, sometimes with internal avoidance of conflict with your client?

It shouldn’t surprise us that issues related to payment are ripe for both client and clinician enactments of anxiety, guilt and aggression. Our management of these issues pose ethical risks and opportunities.

This 3-hour ethics workshop will be primarily didactic as we explore issues that arise for both client and clinician in this pinnacle element of the therapeutic frame, that helps define the boundaries of the clinical relationship.

Facilitator is particularly skilled at evoking a shame-free
environment for clinicians to explore unchartered territory ripe with accidental enactment.

Wanderhome Retreats, #2794, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 6/26/26–6/26/27. Social workers completing this course receive 3 clinical continuing education credits.

Friday January 8th

Time: 10am-1pm ET (with 9:30 arrival)

Location: Live, Glenside 19038