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Couples' KAP Replay: Module 5, Dyadic Integration

CE Hours 3

About this course

Overview: 

The Couple's KAP Replay is an on-demand continuing education series featuring recordings from Enamory Institute's live Couples' Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Therapist Training event held in July 2026. Through didactic instruction, clinical case examples, experiential exercises, and demonstrations, participants are provided with a structured and evidence-based approach to assessment, preparation, dosing, and integration phases of KAP with couples.

Grounded in evidence-based principles and strategies from the established couple therapy literature (Jackson et al., 2026) and informed by current research and best practices in psychedelic-assisted care, this training explores how ketamine can be thoughtfully integrated into couple therapy. Across the series, participants will learn to uncover recurring relational patterns, identify and provide feedback on relevant ketamine treatment targets, prepare couples for ketamine experiences, differentiate approaches to dyadic dosing, and facilitate targeted integration strategies to support couple therapy goals and ongoing relational change.

This training is designed to be applicable across theoretical orientations, emphasizing evidence-based couple therapy principles and structured clinical decision-making that participants can incorporate within their existing approach to working with couples. Whether taken individually or as part of the complete Couples’ KAP replay series, each module (Relational Assessment, Feedback & Preparation, Dyadic Dosing, and Dyadic Integration) provides focused instruction and practical strategies that clinicians can immediately apply in their work with couples.  


The following module provides focused instruction on one core component of KAP with couples: Dyadic Integration, reviewing integration strategies that connect ketamine experiences to the ongoing course of couple therapy.

Module 5: Dyadic Integration

Module 5, Dyadic Integration & Continuing the Arc of Couple Therapy, introduces clinicians to principle-guided approaches for fostering relational integration after ketamine dosing. Participants will explore core integration tasks relevant to couples, including helping partners process the medicine experience together, softening into vulnerable emotions, and shifting entrenched relational patterns. The module emphasizes working flexibly with emotions, cognitions, and behaviors while also supporting couples in developing ongoing integration practices. Special attention is given to extending integration into the broader arc of couple treatment, ensuring that insights gained during KAP sessions are meaningfully woven into long-term relational growth and therapeutic progress.


Learning Objectives

  • Facilitate a balanced, principle-guided process for partners to share ketamine experiences and make meaning together.
  • Apply integration strategies to shift elements of the couple cycle.
  • Support ongoing integration by developing individualized, between-session integration practices, tracking how insights translate to daily life, and connecting KAP work to the continuing arc of couple treatment.

Learning Levels

  • Intermediate

Target Audience

This training is suitable for clinicians and other mental health professionals with foundational knowledge of both ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) and couples therapy.

Course Instructor(s)

  • Chandra Estelle Khalifian, PhD

    Chandra Estelle Khalifian, Ph.D., is research faculty at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the co-founder of Enamory– a clinic, training institute, and research center focused on psychedelic-assisted couple therapy. She earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship (Advanced Fellowship for Women’s Health) at the VA San Diego / UCSD consortium. She completed a VA Career Development Award under mentorship of Dr. Leslie Morland studying the Treatment for Relationships & Saftey (TR&ST)-- a couple-based suicide intervention that she developed during her postdoctoral fellowship. She has been a co-investigator on multiple funded research trials including a MDMA-assisted couple therapy for PTSD trial. Her research is focused on developing novel couple interventions for relationship distress, PTSD, and suicide. She is particularly interested in enhancing evidence-based interventions with psychedelics. Within Enamory, Dr. Khalifian sees couples and individuals, supervises associate therapists, conducts research, and co-developed, with her colleagues, Dr. Kayla Knopp and Dr. Skylar Kelsven, the world’s first ketamine-assisted couple therapy training and certification program.

  • Kayla Knopp, PhD

    Kayla C. Knopp, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and clinical researcher. Her research and clinical interests center around understanding the reciprocal associations between intimate relationship functioning and mental health, supporting diverse relationship types and structures, and using novel and creative methods to improve both access to and impacts of interventions for couples. Her current projects include technology-supported interventions for couples and psychedelic-assisted couple therapies. Dr. Knopp earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Denver and completed her predoctoral internship and postdoctoral fellowship (Advanced Fellowship for Women’s Health) at the VA San Diego / University of California San Diego consortium. She was awarded a VA Career Development Award under mentorship of Dr. Leslie Morland studying the OurRelationship program for veterans and their partners. Dr. Knopp co-founded Enamory, a clinic, training institute, and research foundation specializing in ketamine-assisted couple therapy. In addition to seeing a small caseload of couples and individuals, Dr. Knopp supervises associate therapists, provides training and consultation to therapists, and conducts clinic-based research. Together with Enamory’s co-founder Dr. Chandra Khalifian and training director Dr. Skylar Kelsven, Dr. Knopp is the co-developer of the world’s first ketamine-assisted couple therapy training and certification program.

Disclosure

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References

  • Aixalà, M. (2024). Deepening psychedelic integration: Exploring complex settings, understanding user’s struggles, and implementing safe interventions. Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/7854_2024_532
  • Bathje, G. J., Majeski, E., & Kudowor, M. (2022). Psychedelic integration: An analysis of the concept and its practice. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 824077. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.824077
  • Frymann, T., Whitney, S., Yaden, D. B., & Lipson, J. (2022). The psychedelic integration scales: Tools for measuring psychedelic integration behaviors and experiences. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 863247. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.863247
  • Garel, N., Drury, J., Thibault Lévesque, J., Goyette, N., Lehmann, A., Looper, K., & Greenway, K. T. (2023). The Montreal model: An integrative biomedical-psychedelic approach to ketamine for severe treatment-resistant depression. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14, 1268832. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1268832
  • Greń, J., Tylš, F., Lasocik, M., & Kiraly, C. (2023). Back from the rabbit hole: Theoretical considerations and practical guidelines on psychedelic integration for mental health specialists. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, 1054692. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1054692
  • Greń, J., Gorman, I., Ruban, A., Tylš, F., Bhatt, S., & Aixalà, M. (2024). Call for evidence-based psychedelic integration. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology, 32(2), 129–136. https://doi.org/10.1037/pha0000671
  • Kew, B. M., Porter, R. J., Douglas, K. M., Glue, P., Mentzel, C. L., & Beaglehole, B. (2023). Ketamine and psychotherapy for the treatment of psychiatric disorders: Systematic review. BJPsych Open, 9(3), e79. https://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2023.79
  • Mathai, D. S., Mora, V., & Garcia-Romeu, A. (2022). Toward synergies of ketamine and psychotherapy. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 868103. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.868103
  • Khalifian, C., Rashkovsky, K., Mitchell, E., Bismark, A., Wagner, A. C., & Knopp, K. C. (2024). A novel framework for ketamine-assisted couple therapy. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 15, 1376646. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1376646
  • Jackson, J. B., Codecá, L., Miller, R. B., Simpson, J. E., O’Leary, A. M., & Renner, S. M. (2026). Empirically supported couple therapy models for couple relationship distress: A replication and update. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 52(4), e70162. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmft.70162

CE Process Info

Content

  • Handouts- Module 5, Dyadic Intregration
    3 parts
    • Slide Handout- Module 5, Dyadic integration
    • Blank Relational Pattern
    • Couples' KAP Quick Reference Handout
  • Dyadic Integration Part 1
    2 parts
    • Dyadic Integration Video 1
    • Practice On Your Own
  • Dyadic Integration Part 2
    2 parts
    • Dyadic Integration Video 2
    • Apply To Your Practice

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Couples' KAP Replay: Module 5, Dyadic Integration
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