What Is a Mom Parts KAP Lab?

When Jessica Tomich Sorci and I began collaborating for Mom Parts KAP, we were trying to make space for something we both kept seeing: how hard it can be for practitioners to find time for continuing education, their own reflection, and something that actually feels supportive. Our hope was to bring those things together.

A Mom Parts KAP Lab is a small, clinician-focused experiential learning space. Each month, we choose one particular part or experience of motherhood and explore it through the Mom Parts Method, brain-body awareness, and optional low-dose ketamine.

There is teaching, but it is not a three-hour webinar. We make room to notice what happens in our own systems and consider how what we are learning might show up during KAP preparation, dosing, and integration.

What are “Mom Parts”?

Mom Parts are the parts of us that have organized around motherhood and everything we have learned, inherited, and internalized about what it means to be a “good mom.”

Some parts try to get everything exactly right. Some take responsibility for everything and everyone. Others carry guilt, self-doubt, anger, resentment, grief, or the urge to escape.

These are often hardworking, undersupported parts with very good intentions.

Rather than trying to correct or get rid of them, the Mom Parts Method helps us become curious about their stories, fears, hopes, and protective roles. We can begin to understand what each part has been trying to prevent, what vulnerabilities it protects, and what kind of Truth or Remedy might help it experience more support and choice.

Why Do We Call It a Lab?

We call it a lab because we are noticing Mom Parts as they show up. A participant might recognize a Perfectionist part tightening around the need to do the practice correctly. A Responsible part might start tracking everyone else in the room. A Self-Doubt part may wonder whether anything is happening at all.

Instead of seeing those responses as interruptions, we become curious about them because they are part of the learning. These labs are for clinicians who work with moms, clinicians who are moms, and often both.

Where Does KAP Come In?

Mom Parts KAP uses a low-dose, psycholytic approach to ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. The intention is not to produce the biggest or most immersive psychedelic experience possible. In this context a lower dose may support curiosity, unblending, and befriending Mom Parts without overpowering the protectors that are trying to keep the system safe.

Ketamine is always optional. Participants may attend with prescribed ketamine when it is clinically appropriate and arranged separately with their own qualified prescriber. Medicine-free participation is equally welcome.

What Happens During a Lab?

Each Mom Parts KAP Lab includes a three-hour main lab and a separate one-hour integration session. The main lab combines teaching, guided Mom Parts practices, embodied exploration, personal reflection, and clinical application. The integration session gives us time to return to what surfaced, notice what continued to unfold, and consider how the experience might inform our clinical work.

All sessions are live on Zoom and clinicians may earn up to three NBCC CE hours.

Each topic is anchored from When Good Moms Feel Bad and the five-step Mom Parts Method. The labs stand alone, so participants can join us for the topic that feels most relevant or attend monthly to explore how these parts interact over time.

Mom Parts KAP Labs:

October 2026–March 2027

October: Perfectionism in Motherhood

Main Lab: Tuesday, October 13, 12–3 p.m. ET

Integration: Wednesday, October 14, 1–2 p.m. ET

We will explore the pressures that fuel perfectionism and the good intentions of the hardworking, undersupported parts that push mothers to get everything exactly right. We will also differentiate the Perfectionist, Inner Critic, Responsible, and Self-Doubt parts that may become activated by mistakes, uncertainty, or unmet expectations.

We will apply the Mom Parts Method in KAP preparation, dosing, and integration and get curious about the fears and hopes underneath perfectionism.

November: The Good Mom/Bad Mom Loop

Main Lab: Thursday, November 12, 12–3 p.m. ET

Integration: Friday, November 13, 1–2 p.m. ET

The Good Mom/Bad Mom Loop is the exhausting inner tug-of-war that can develop between the parts trying to do everything right and the parts that are angry, depleted, resentful, numbing, or ready to say “Fuck it.”

The harder the "Good Mom" parts try, the more overwhelmed the system may become. Then, when a "Bad Mom" or firefighter part takes over, shame and self-criticism send the Good Mom parts back into overdrive.

During this lab we will map this feedback loop, explore how opposing parts may be protecting the same vulnerable parts, and apply this practice in KAP preparation, dosing, and integration to create more room for curiosity and choice.

December: Grief in Motherhood

Main Lab: Monday, December 7, 12–3 p.m. ET

Integration: Tuesday, December 8, 1–2 p.m. ET

This lab is an invitation to explore the losses that accompany motherhood and to explore grief as a territory full of hidden life. Moms may grieve who they were before motherhood, the mothering they received or needed, the child or family they imagined, changing relationships, lost possibilities, and the versions of their children they continually have to let go of as they grow.

We will use the Mom Parts cards as part of a shared grief ritual and explore how protector parts may minimize, control, numb, or redirect grief. We will practice meeting grief in a capacity-aware way, applying the framework across KAP preparation, dosing, and integration.

January: The Responsible Mom Part

Main Lab: Wednesday, January 13, 12–3 p.m. ET

Integration: Thursday, January 14, 1–2 p.m. ET

A Responsible part is often one of the first protectors to step into a leadership role in motherhood. This part becomes a senior manager of danger. It remembers, plans, anticipates, monitors, and tries to hold together the needs of the child, the family, and the entire maternal system. When it becomes overextended, its protective strategies may begin to look or feel like anxiety, depression, rigidity, or control.

This lab offers a way to distinguish healthy, values-aligned responsibility from protector-driven over-responsibility. From KAP preparation through dosing and integration we will listen for the part’s feared consequences of relaxing and explore the validation, support, Truth, and Remedy it may need to access more flexibility and choice.

February: Boundaries, Intuition & Values in Motherhood

Main Lab: Friday, February 19, 12–3 p.m. ET

Integration: Monday, February 22, 1–2 p.m. ET

Motherhood dissolves boundaries by design through the symbiosis and merging required by gestation, bonding, attachment, and caregiving. That loss of personal territory can be uncomfortable and sometimes enraging. At some point, moms need to begin reclaiming emotional, physical, conversational, time, or energy boundaries—and that reclaiming often brings up guilt, anxiety, and self-doubt.

We will get to know the parts on all sides of this struggle and reconnect with the Wanting, intuition, and desire underneath them. We will also explore the difference between guilt that signals a violation of personal integrity and guilt activated by family, cultural, or “good mom” expectations.

From there, we will consider how KAP can help translate what surfaces into choices that feel aligned with a mom'’s values, relationships, and integrity.

March: Remedies - Playing With What Helps You Access and Expand

Main Lab: Tuesday, March 30, 12–3 p.m. ET

Integration: Wednesday, March 31, 1–2 p.m. ET

This will be a more playful and exploratory session focused on the nine Remedies: calmness, curiosity, compassion, connectedness, confidence, creativity, courage, clarity, and choice.

These Remedies are qualities of Inner Mom energy. They are not qualities we force ourselves to perform or use to talk parts out of what they feel. We begin by understanding what a part is protecting, what it fears, and what it is longing for. Then we can become curious about which Remedy might actually help.

We will explore how Psycholytic (low-dose) KAP can support these qualities to take root and expand. We will also explore how Remedies can be incorporated into KAP preparation, dosing, and integration.

Join Us

Mom Parts KAP Labs offer continuing education that includes the practitioner, too.

You can join us with prescribed ketamine or medicine-free. You can come for one topic or move through the series with us. Most importantly, all Mom Parts are Welcome.

Learn more and register here.

Learn more about the framework at MomPartsKAP.com.