Our masterclass Working with Ketamine, with Atira Tan and Dr Devon Christie, explores the evolving landscape of ketamine-assisted therapy, with a focus on trauma recovery and trauma imprints. You’ll examine its potential benefits, ethical considerations and key contraindications in a trauma-informed context.
Ketamine offers powerful potential for healing when facilitated with care and deep understanding.
This masterclass supports practitioners in building a safe, trauma-informed foundation, ensuring ethical and compassionate guidance through ketamine-assisted therapy.
You’ll learn practical trauma-informed tools for working with ketamine-assisted therapy through the lens of inner-directed therapy and co-therapy, including discussion of Dr Christie’s clinical experience using ketamine to support PTSD, chronic pain and treatment-resistant depression.
The session weaves theoretical foundations with practical insights, case studies and current research to give you a clear, grounded understanding of how ketamine can be applied within innovative therapeutic approaches.
We’ll also look at how ketamine-assisted therapy differs from traditional approaches by altering consciousness, loosening entrenched cognitive and behavioural patterns, and allowing individuals to engage with traumatic memories and core narratives from a new perspective. This shift can deepen the therapeutic alliance and support more meaningful processing, insight and emotional integration.
IN OUR 90 MINS MASTERCLASS, YOU’LL LEARN:
- How ketamine-assisted therapy can support trauma recovery – and where its limits are.
- Key ethical considerations, contraindications and red flags for trauma survivors.
- Practical trauma-informed tools to keep ketamine sessions safe and grounded.
- Inner-directed and co-therapy approaches, with examples from Dr Devon Christie’s clinical work.
- How to turn current research and case studies into real-world practice.
- Where ketamine fits inside a wider trauma-informed and psychedelic-assisted practice.
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
“This trauma-informed plant medicine facilitation course has put language and science to the most important aspects of my work in ways I never could. This training empowered me to create safer, more integrated, and more compassionate healing containers for myself, the healers I work with, and of course our participants. I now feel that anyone working to facilitate healing of any kind should be trauma-informed as a foundational part of their approach. In fact, as we face the mounting challenges of today’s world, I feel we can’t afford to be.”
– Lara Charlotte, Co-Founder of Garden of Dreams, New Zealand.
HEALING TRAUMA WITH
KETAMINE-ASSISTED THERAPIES
In this 90-min masterclass, you’ll build trauma-informed skills for ketamine facilitation—covering preparation, navigation, integration, and a grounded understanding of ketamine’s effects in therapeutic settings. You’ll leave with clear, practical tools you can bring straight into your clinical or facilitation practice.
Create a safe, compassionate space for ketamine-assisted sessions
Use ketamine-specific preparation and integration practices
Apply trauma-informed principles to support lasting therapeutic change
Understand metaplasticity and how ketamine can reshape neural pathways in trauma recovery
Explore ketamine’s role in healing and transformation within a wider therapeutic plan
Work skilfully with set and setting in ketamine-assisted therapies
YOUR TEACHERS
Devon is a former clinical investigator and study therapist in MAPS MDMA-assisted therapy research for PTSD, and is trained in ketamine-assisted therapy. Her background includes Functional Medicine, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, Relational Somatic Therapy, Internal Family Systems (Level 1), and MAPS MDMA-Assisted Therapy, reflecting a bio-psycho-social approach to care.
Previously Numinus’ Senior Lead of Psychedelic Programs, she helped design and deliver psychedelic-assisted clinical services and therapist training. She now teaches in leading training programmes including CIIS, IPI, ATMA, VITAL and EmbodyLab, with a strong emphasis on ethics, mindfulness and trauma-specific skills.
Devon’s work centres on reshaping healthcare by integrating trauma-informed, somatic and psychedelic-assisted therapies into mainstream practice. In her e-book Integrative Somatic Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy, she maps key elements of this emerging paradigm.
She is head of integration at AYA Healing Retreats and has worked as a trauma-informed integration specialist at plant medicine centres including the Temple of the Way of Light. In her private practice, Atira has supported hundreds of plant-medicine participants and co-facilitates trauma-informed and Somatic Experiencing plant medicine retreats and dietas in Peru. She created the Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Program, which has trained more than 150 practitioners in its first two years.
Atira holds an MA in Art Therapy, with a background in transpersonal art therapy and holistic counselling, and is a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner with extensive training in other trauma-informed modalities. She is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, researching somatic and creative trauma recovery interventions for sex-trafficked survivors in Asia, and has presented her work at conferences alongside Peter Levine, Stephen Porges, Pat Ogden and Gabor Maté.
She is also the founder and CEO of Art to Healing, an Australian charity supporting the recovery of child sex-slavery survivors through trauma-informed, art-based and women’s health programmes. Before COVID, Atira taught workshops, retreats and trainings across Australia, Europe, Asia and South America, specialising in supporting survivors of sexual abuse in both community settings and private practice.
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
“Participating in this training gave me profound insight into what I’m doing as a ceremony guide and integration & microdosing coach, illuminating areas where I can grow, and strengthen & expanding my toolbox of resources, practices, processes, protocols, and tools I already have, to be able to support people in their healing journeys even better.
Atira carries a strong and very clear vision of the importance of having a trauma-informed approach and awareness when working in this rapidly growing field of plant medicine & psychedelic-assisted therapies. Being in her presence and receiving her teachings was super inspiring and motivating to keep showing up for this special and very much-needed work.”
– JUAN MANUEL BURGOS, Microdosing & Integration Coach, Argentina.
“This program’s deep dive into the realms of living impeccable service has been nothing short of life-changing.
I remembered so much about the nervous system, about my life, about my purpose, about the bridges between paradigms and the collective trauma on the Earth. I was deeply warmed, inspired, challenged, and excited by the entire experience.
Atira transmits genuine, care, curiosity, understanding, and expertise. She is devoted to providing safe spaces for people to heal and her life’s work is a testimony to her wisdom. This body of work is a must for all.”
– MELE MAI, Art Therapist & Facilitator, Australia.
“What a life-changing experience. This training is a true treasure of knowledge and wisdom and shared with a caring and loving presence.
The depth of insights into a variety of tools to create safer spaces is the most I have ever experienced in any training. However, besides the theoretical teachings, what touched me the most was how the space was held in such safety and care and naturally became the soil for our personal softening into the journey.
And with that, we were able to truly experience the effect of a teacher who fully embodies what she teaches. And that is a priceless gift I will benefit from for the rest of my life.”
– FLORIANNE WOLFHART, Trauma-Informed Coach & Breathwork Facilitator, The Netherlands
“My mind and heart are in deep amazement and gratitude as I apply all that I learned in the Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine workshop.
I highly recommend this course/workshop, not only to those who are interested in the relationship between trauma and plant medicine but anyone who is curious about understanding human relational patterns to self and society. Atira shares in-depth knowledge and expertise of trauma studies and this work is much needed in the world.”
– ELIZABETH GOTTWALD, Kambo Facilitator & Photographer, USA
