KAPparel

Training

faculty

Philip Wolfson, MD

Philip Wolfson, MD

Phil Wolfson MD is Principal Investigator for the MAPS sponsored Phase 2, FDA approved 18-person study of MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy for individuals with significant anxiety due to life threatening illnesses. His clinical practice with ketamine has informed his leadership role in the development of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy. Phil’s book The Ketamine Papers has been published by MAPS and is the seminal work in the burgeoning ketamine arena. Phil is a sixties activist, psychiatrist/psychotherapist, writer, practicing Buddhist and psychonaut who has lived in the Bay Area for 38 years. He is the author of Noe – A Father/Son Song of Love, Life, Illness and Death (2011, North Atlantic Books). In the 1980s, he participated in clinical research with MDMA (Ecstasy). He has been awarded five patents for unique herbal medicines. He is a journalist and author of numerous articles on politics, transformation, psychedelics, consciousness and spirit, and was a founding member of the Heffter Research Institute. Phil has taught in the graduate psychology programs at JFK University, CIIS and the UCSF School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry.

Julane Andries, LMFT

Julane Andries, LMFT

Julane Andries is a practicing psychotherapist in Marin County, Ca. She worked in acute care medicine before becoming a marriage family therapist. She is an investigator in the MAPS Phase 3 study using MDMA assisted psychotherapy for severe PTSD in San Francisco. She was the principle co-therapist for the MAPS sponsored, Phase 2 MDMA assisted psychotherapy study for individuals suffering from anxiety with life-threatening illness. She has been a pioneer in the development of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy

Her work is unique and is creative to the psychotherapy process using this medicine. She, along with others on their team, treats patients with treatment resistant depression, first line depression, anxiety and PTSD, as well as those seeking transformation.

She and Dr. Wolfson have founded a non-profit, Ketamine Research Foundation, whose mission is to provide training for practitioners, collect data to track outcomes with Ketamine therapy, starting a new protocol for using KAP for those diagnosed with a life threatening illness, and those in palliative and hospice care, research in lactating women and ketamine for post-partum depression, ketamine for PMS and other projects. Julane is also co-founder of the Ketamine Training Center and helps lead trainings across the country teaching practitioners in the skills used in KAP.

The first journal article for outcomes in KAP using data from our practice and 2 other associated practices has just been accepted for publication: Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP): Patient Demographics, Clinical Data and Outcomes in Three Large Practices Administering Ketamine with Psychotherapy

Julane has a passionate interest in understanding trauma, its impact on the mind and body, and in stimulating the healing process.

Co-Founder and Co-Therapist of KAP
Leader in the Ketamine Training Center
Ketamine Research Foundation – Board officer
Research in outcomes for KAP
Phase 2 and Phase 3 –Invesstigator/Co-therapist FDA trial for MDMA Assisted Psychotherapy for Severe PTSD and Life-Threatening Illness

Gita Vaid, MD

Gita Vaid, MD

Gita Vaid, MD is a Board Certified Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst practicing in New York City. Dr Vaid completed her residency training at NYU Medical Center and psychoanalytic training at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Education affiliated with NYU. She has a rich research and biological background, completing a fellowship in clinical psychopharmacology and neurophysiology at New York Medical College and a research fellowship at NYU Medical Center.

Dr Vaid is currently on faculty and teaches at both IPE and the NYU department of Psychiatry. She has a special interest in teaching interview technique, psychoanalytic theory and British object relations.

Dr Vaid’s current focus and interest is in psychedelic assisted psychotherapy. She is a MAPS training therapist and part of the NY site Phase 3 MDMA psychotherapy study for PTSD. She trained with Phil Wolfson MD with KAP and has been using it in clinical practice while developing psychotherapy models to reimagine how psychotherapy is practiced and might be blended with various complementary modalities.

Monica Winsor

Monica Winsor

Monica Winsor is an independent consultant to individuals and social beneficiary organizations with a focus on integrative health, consciousness and poverty alleviation. A graduate of Brown University and yoga teacher and yoga therapist for many years, Monica uses the principles of yoga as a basis for work with individuals and organizations.

Daniel Ahlers, MD

Daniel Ahlers, MD

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Julian Amaro – Administrative Assistant

Julian Amaro – Administrative Assistant

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Peter Corbett

Peter Corbett

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Licia Sky

Licia Sky

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Bessel van der Kolk

Bessel van der Kolk

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David Dansky

David Dansky

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Biographies of additional trainers participating in each event will be specified.

KTC training workshops include as Guest Faculty local experts in KAP and the varieties of psychotherapy and psychedelic medicine.