4.5 Hours / 4.5 CEs

On Demand | Self-Paced Professional Training

This on-demand professional training program on Clinical Mastery - Advanced Applications and Specialization is is partnership with Joyous. 

Elevate your practice with advanced clinical strategies tailored to specific presentations and therapeutic modalities. This section provides detailed treatment planning protocols and explores best-matched approaches, including trauma-informed care, and mindfulness-based interventions. You'll gain confidence managing challenging in-session experiences and working with high-acuity cases, including suicidal ideation. Critical attention is given to therapist self-care and sustainability in this powerful but demanding work. Through principles and example, you'll develop the nuanced decision-making skills necessary to feel masterful.

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to:

  • 1 Describe how to develop an individualized treatment plan for psycholytic ketamine therapy based on client needs and safety factors
  • 2 Describe the JOYOUS protocol and how it structures safe, client-led psycholytic ketamine sessions
  • 3 Describe trauma-informed approaches for supporting clients during psycholytic ketamine therapy
  • 4 Describe how mindfulness practices enhance therapeutic awareness and emotional regulation during KAP
  • 5 Describe how EMDR and ketamine work together to support memory reconsolidation and trauma processing
  • 6 Describe the assessment and safety considerations required when working with suicidality in ketamine therapy.
  • 7 Describe strategies for navigating medical, psychiatric, emotional, and behavioral challenges during ketamine sessions
  • 8 Describe why therapist self-care is essential for ethical ketamine-assisted therapy and how to maintain regulation throughout the work

CE Sponsorship Information

Palo Alto University, Continuing & Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by, recognized by, or maintains sponsorship provider status with the following boards and agencies. We maintain responsibility for all content in our CE/CPD programs. For more information, visit here. 

  1. American Psychological Association (APA): Approved sponsor of continuing education for psychologists.

  2. Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB): Approved continuing education provider (ACE program, Provider #1480), 11/22/2023–11/22/2026.

  3. Canadian Psychological Association (CPA): Approved to sponsor continuing education for psychologists.

  4. National Board for Certified Counselors (NBCC): Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEP No. 7190).



Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.