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Our Mission
Ketamine is the only legally available medicine with psychoactive to psychedelic properties. The Ketamine Research Foundation stands at the center of ketamine research, training, and psychotherapy.
We advance the use of Ketamine in therapeutic methodologies and practices to promote the well-being and balance of our patients through the application of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP).
Our commitment to streamlined and creative research, guided by appropriate safeguards and IRB approvals is unrivaled – all the while setting a gold standard for therapeutics, accountability, accessibility to care, education, and above all, comprehensive training.
We are the ground upon which assisted psychotherapy practices develop and mature with a priority to position the ethical and therapeutic uses of ketamine as the first alternative in the medical toolbox. The wide spectrum of programs that are part of the Ketamine Research Foundation exemplifies our dedication to collaboration, an international presence, and the fulfillment of ketamine’s promise as an extraordinary agent of change and growth.
The Ketamine Research Foundation
From human need to its realization
Who we are
KRF is building a crucial foundation of experienced practitioners and methods for psychedelic psychotherapy and its future as a healing practice:
- KRF is the preeminent non-profit organization facilitating research and training, providing access to care, and constructing a comprehensive library of resources for furthering the practice of psychoactive and psychedelic medicine.
- KRF is the originator of experiential training programs with its Ketamine Training Center that originated in 2017. KTC has trained over 1100 practitioners in KAP with over 50 programs in the US and internationally. As the originator, our training program has spawned many new training initiatives in KAP , many of them created by those practitioners we have trained—a complement indeed,
- KRF has built The Ketamine Psychotherapy Associates, an international organization that has set the standards for ethical and thoughtful care surrounding the use of ketamine.
- KRF has founded an essential platform for the dissemination of responsible information about psychedelic science and practice
- KRF has taken leadership in providing Guidones for the Personal and Clinical use of ketamine in recognition of the alarming growth of ketamine dependency–and for providing a standard of care to those seeking clinical treatment with ketamine given the confusing and often misleading treatment spectrum.
What we do
KRF’s research initiatives are at the center of growing support for ketamine-based therapies among consumers, legislators, and the medical community. We are the established leader in the clinical research of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and its applications.
For a complete presentation of our structure, programs, and research. Please go to the dropdown menu button Funding KRF
Our Program
- Develop through research and clinical applications, the arising awareness of the potentialities and applications of ketamine for human benefits.
- Develop and foster the treatment of acute trauma with emotional distress, and potential resultant PTSD.
- Building our teams to foster research, organization, and corporate development.
- Funding of our programs—those in process and those emerging.
- Foster an awareness of who we are and what we do.
- Continue to articulate the standard of care for ketamine practices.
- Continue to uphold the ethical practice of KAP with our Guidelines.
- Expand and continually modify our training programs and our KPA organization.
- Bring KAP and ketamine practice abroad with training, consultation, and support for arising practices.
- Build coalitions with sister organizations.
- Continue our openness to creativity, new initiatives, and development of all possible elements of KAP practice
- Publish a massive review of KAP practice based on our digitized Redcap program. Publish research and KAP methodology.
- Lead the field in excellence, ethics and standard of care
- Participate in the awakening to psychedelic assisted psychotherapy
ketamine assisted psychotherapy (kap)
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is the first legal psychedelic psychotherapy that allows thousands of patients to discover relief and recovery through its use. KAP is a positive addition to traditional psychiatry and fosters the development of assisted psychotherapy strategies that will be the basis for applying emerging alternative medicines.
KAP Promotes Transformation and Healing Through the Psychoactive and Psychedelic Effects of Ketamine
KAP Is Flexible in Providing a Continuum of Treatment Options That Opens Doors for Both Clinical and Research Applications.
Ketamine’s Power Lies in Its Ability to Provide a Time-Out or Dissolution of Ego, Enabling a New View of Who We Are and How We Wish to Be.
KAP Fosters the Development of Assisted Psychotherapy Practices That Will Act as Templates for the Application of Emerging Alternative Medicines in the Future.
About Our Training Programs
The Ketamine Training Center (KTC) has sponsored twenty-five programs across the US, Canada, and Israel, with over 800 practitioners having attended our experiential programs. Training is comprehensive and focuses on supporting medical professionals that are looking to expand their practice and understanding of new treatments.
We provide holistic training that includes:
Therapeutic tools of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy
The experience of KAP with our two forms of administration—oral and intramuscular
Pharmacological & neuroscientific research
Access to the leading clinical and research team for guidance on ketamine and establishing Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy practices
We offer ketamine training programs throughout the year, across the globe.
Ketamine Library Overview
Featured Library Content
Psychedelics, the spiritual and consciousness: An evolving confluence in the cultural stream
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP): Patient Demographics, Clinical Data and Outcomes in Three Large Practices Administering Ketamine with Psychotherapy
Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in adolescents with multiple psychiatric diagnoses
Latest News & Publications
Lucid News - Awakening a Broad and Critical Understanding of Ketamine
The Ketamine Research Foundation and its practitioner authors share our article for awakening a broad and critical understanding of the spectrum of benefits and hazards of ketamine’s use. As practitioners we are exposed to and probe the personal bases for ketamine’s extraordinary positive value to allay human suffering and for its dependence. We offer this work to increase knowledge about ketamine and ketamine assisted psychotherapy and to further compassionate awareness to individual susceptibilities and experiences. Our article is long and intricate in order to provide a full view. And in Memory of Ken Jordan, who honored us with his deeply thoughtful editing, this as his last contribution.
Psychedelic Methodologies and The Impregnable Value of the Subjective—A New and Evolving Approach
VANITY FAIR Stolen Words: Covid, Ketamine, and Me
THE NEW YORKER Ketamine Therapy Is Going Mainstream. Are We Ready?
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Access to Care
Access to Care is a first-of-its-kind program, providing support to those who cannot afford Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. The Ketamine Research Foundation provides funding for qualified patients.
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Learn more about KRF’s Founder and CEO Phil Wolfson: