KAP Integration Guide

About Paperflower Psychiatry Paperflower Psychiatry is a values-driven, neurodivergence-affirming psychiatric practice serving Arizona. We specialize in care for neurodivergent adults, the LGBTQ+ community, BIPOC clients, and people whose stories haven't always been held well by traditional mental health systems. Our work is trauma-informed, identity-affirming, and rooted in the belief that healing happens in relationship. We're expanding our Gilbert location to include ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and we're looking for a thoughtful, grounded guide to walk alongside clients through preparation, dosing, and integration. About the Role The KAP Integration Guide is the relational anchor of our ketamine-assisted psychotherapy program. You'll work in close partnership with our prescribing psychiatric provider and clinical team, holding space for clients during one of the most tender and meaningful parts of their healing. This is not therapy and you won't be asked to function as a therapist. The clinical work — diagnosis, treatment planning, anything that requires a license — stays with our prescribing provider and licensed clinical team. Your work is the guiding work: presence, preparation, integration, meaning-making. This role is part-time only. Specific scope, hours, and expectations are calibrated to your training and experience level — we don't ask senior guides to do entry-level work, and we don't put entry-level guides in over their head. We'd rather hire the right person at the right tier than over-promise either direction. What You'll Do Specific responsibilities scale with experience tier — discussed at interview. Conduct preparation sessions with KAP clients — psychoeducation about the medicine, intention-setting, somatic grounding, and helping clients feel ready Be present during ketamine dosing sessions in a supportive, non-directive role, alongside the medical provider responsible for clinical monitoring Lead structured integration sessions in the days and weeks following dosing, helping clients translate experience into meaning, behavior change, and forward momentum Maintain clear, appropriate documentation of your work Coordinate closely with the prescribing provider and the client's outside therapist (if they have one) — you're part of a team, not solo Hold scope cleanly: refer to a licensed clinician anything that crosses into therapy territory (acute trauma processing, mental health symptoms requiring treatment, safety concerns) Participate in case consultation and ongoing learning

What You Bring Required:

Substantive experience as a guide, sitter, or integration coach in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy or another psychedelic-assisted modality (psilocybin, MDMA, ayahuasca, etc.) — meaning real hours sitting with people in non-ordinary states of consciousness, not just personal experience Clarity about what your role is and isn't — comfort working in partnership with a clinical team and referring out anything that needs licensed care Personal practice with non-ordinary states, contemplative work, somatics, or related territory — you can't take someone somewhere you haven't been Maturity to hold tender, sometimes destabilizing material without overstepping Strong screening and discernment skills — you know when something is outside your scope Reliable, professional, and genuinely good at the relational work Strongly preferred: Completion of a recognized psychedelic-assisted therapy training program — Polaris Insight Center, Fluence, MAPS, CIIS Certificate in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research, PRATI, Naropa, Synthesis, Alchemy Institute, Integrative Psychiatry Institute, or similar Background as a coach (ICF or equivalent), somatic practitioner, breathwork facilitator, end-of-life doula, harm reduction practitioner, or related field Lived or professional experience with neurodivergent communities LGBTQ+ and BIPOC affirming practice — as a clinical and human stance, not a marketing line Familiarity with harm-reduction frameworks Trauma-informed training (somatic experiencing, polyvagal-informed work, NARM, IFS-informed coaching, etc.) Open to: Candidates without formal KAP-specific training who have substantial guiding experience in another psychedelic modality and are willing to complete a recognized KAP training within 6 months of hire — we'll provide a stipend toward training for the right candidate What We're Not We're not asking you to be a therapist. If you have the urge to "do the clinical work," this isn't the role. The clients you'll work with will have a prescribing provider managing the medical side, often a separate therapist managing the deeper clinical work, and you holding the guiding and integration thread. That clarity of role is what keeps the work safe and clean. Compensation Part-time, W-2, hourly, tiered by activity and experience. Rates are determined at hire based on your training, hours of dosing work held, and overall experience. This role does not include benefits (no health insurance, no PTO, no retirement).

What we do include:

Stipend support toward KAP training if you don't already have it A workplace built around the work, not around extracting hours How to Apply Send a resume and a brief letter (one page is plenty) telling us: How you came to this work Roughly how many dosing sessions you've sat for, and in what context (KAP, psilocybin, MDMA, ayahuasca, etc.) What populations you most want to serve Your training and your personal practice We review applications on a rolling basis. We're committed to building a team that reflects the communities we serve, and we encourage applications from people of color, LGBTQ+ folks, neurodivergent practitioners, and people whose paths into this work haven't been linear. Paperflower Psychiatry is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age, neurotype, or any other protected characteristic.

Job Type:

Part-time Benefits:

Professional development assistance

Work Location:

In person