Certification in Ketamine enhanced IFS (KIFS)
Overview of the KIFS Certification
Concrescence Institute is now offering a pathway for clinicians to be certified in the integration of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy and Internal Family Systems!
As Western culture begins again to explore the healing potential of consciousness or psychedelic medicines, there is a growing need to refine our medicine holding practices and develop a pathway to ensure and communicate to patients that the provider has a high level of familiarity, capacity, and skill. One way of accomplishing this is through a certification process that includes instruction on the medicine we are working with AND the practices of supporting the work that match the offering of the medicine.
The Certification in Ketamine enhanced Internal Family Systems (KIFS) is designed to provide a deep knowledge base in ketamine and IFS that will also serve as a foundation for training in MDMA assisted therapy once/when that medicine becomes legally available.
**The KIFS Certification process is NOT affiliated with the IFS Institute (IFSI) and does not fulfill requirements set for further instruction at IFSI.**
Requirements for KIFS Certification
- IFS Training with Supervised Practice Triads
- KIFS Clinician Training Retreat
- 10 Credit Hours of KIFS Consultation
- Completion of (5) Facilitation Case Studies–3 Different People
- Completion of (10) Personal Journey Logs
- Application Fee ($150) for review of application materials
How to Fulfill Requirements
IFS Training With Supervised Practice Triads
Option 1: Fundamentals of IFS Course (Concrescence Institute)
Option 2: IFS Level 1 (IFS Institute) *note there is a large current waitlist for IFS Level 1 training and may take 3-5 years for admission
Option 3: Stepping Stones course (IFSCA)
For SS graduates, we require a minimum of 5 supervised practice triad groups. If your program included few than 5 supervised triad rounds, please supplement with additional supervised experience. Contact CI for opportunities that qualify.
KIFS Clinician Training Retreat
Participation in CI’s KIFS Training Retreat or Heart of Healing Apprenticeship.
KAP training from established organizations like Ketamine Training Center, Polaris, Fluence, IPI experiential ketamine, etc. can provide a wonderful basis in KAP. We honor these programs and teachers. These programs differ from the KIFS training retreat in that they do not center IFS as a primary holding practice or teach an IFS/KAP protocol and therefore do not meet the requirement.
KIFS Consultation Credit Hours
- 1 hour of Group Consultation is 0.5 Credit Hours
- 1 hour of Individual Consultation is 1.0 Credit Hours
- 2 Credit Hours must be Individual Consultation
Case Studies and Journey Logs
**Sharing the content of your personal journey is not a requirement. The purpose is to assess what you have learned from your experience that can inform your facilitation of others.
- Case Studies should be 2-5 pages each and reflect sessions with 3 different people.
- Personal Journey Logs should be 0.5-1 page each.