Ketamine Clinics in Canada practicing Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
Suggested Practice Standards
As psychedelic medicines become more accepted and adopted into medical and health care, it is important for therapists who are psychedelic practitioners to practice with the highest degree of excellence in order to promote safety and effectiveness.
Below we have compiled some best practices for ketamine clinics offering psychedelic assisted therapy. This is not an exhaustive list: it is a starting point.
If you find gaps, wording that could be changed, missing components or any other way this document could be made better, please submit your solution-oriented ideas here.
More and more ketamine clinics are emerging in Canada, and guidance on what constitutes solid care is provided here for clinics to follow and for patients/clients to know what services should be provided. If you are exploring ketamine therapy as a patient/client and the clinic you are considering does not appear to be following best practices, please consider using another clinic. Not all clinics are equal. Your healing matters and you should only work with skilled practitioners.
Providing psychedelic assisted therapy with ketamine is a serious and rewarding service. Clinics offering this service must be well-trained and thorough in their process.
* Acronyms:
CPR - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
BLS - Basic Life Support
ACLS - Advanced Cardiac Life Support
AED - Automated External Defibrillator
The Psychedelic Association of Canada would like to thank and acknowledge the volunteers who created this document for the community:
Lauri Comoli, BSW
Tracy Lowe, RCC, CCC
Michelle Gagnon, PhD(c)
Dr. Pamela Kryskow, MD
If you would like to kindly & compassionately suggest edits - the link is at the beginning of the document.
If you would like to join the Ethics Working Group at the Psychedelic Association of Canada please email pkryskow@psychedelicassociation.net