Clinician Trainings
Ethical psychedelic-assisted therapy requires qualified trained professionals. Below is a curated list of relevant trainings to help clinicians expand the scope of their competencies.
Polaris Insight Center
“Our online didactic training and in-person retreats are designed to provide practitioners with the principles and procedures of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy in a clinical setting.”
CE Credits Applicable
Integrative Psychiatry Institute
“This training is designed for therapists, physicians, nurses and other allied mental healthcare professionals who want comprehensive training in psychedelic-assisted therapy, in order to utilize ketamine as a psychedelic medicine and ready themselves for the anticipated approvals of MDMA and psilocybin.”
CE Credits Applicable
Sage Institute
“The model of ketamine-assisted therapy offered at Sage is a trauma-informed, relational approach that supports practitioners in creating optimal conditions for transformative psycho-spiritual experiences, assisting the client in restoring access to a greater sense of freedom and meaning in their lives.”
CE Credits Applicable
Fluence
“The Certificate Program is designed to prepare licensed clinicians to provide Psychedelic-assisted Therapy or Psychedelic Integration Therapy course of their clinical practice. The Certificate is not a license or authorization to practice therapy in itself, but a course of study covering key elements and experiences, providing exposure to mentors and leaders in the field, and introducing participants to a peer group for ongoing professional support and development.”
CE Credits Applicable
Psychedelics Today
“Master the elements of psychedelic practice and join a community of professionals on their mission to provide safe, ethical, and effective treatment and integration.”
CE Credits Applicable
The Ketamine Training Center
“The KTC workshop program is designed for experienced professionals who already have mastery in their respective fields (medicine, psychiatry, psychology, nurses, hospice, palliative care) and who are interested in providing treatment in the context of a joint collaboration of medical and psychological skill sets to create a team approach for delivering KAP.”
California Institute of Integral Studies
“The Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research Certificate Program serves a growing need for the training of skilled therapist researchers who will ideally seek advanced training for future FDA-approved psychedelic-assisted and entactogen-assisted psychotherapy research.”
CE Credits Applicable
Psychedelic Sitters School
“Psychedelic Sitters School has been training psychedelic guides since 2012. Our program continues to evolve in flux with the unprecedented phenomena happening throughout the global landscape. We now offer in-person and online training options and have students across the world in: United States, Canada, Central and South America, Europe, and Australia.”
CE Credits Applicable
Plant Medicine Health Care
“Plant Medicine Healthcare. A 4 hour Crash Course for therapy and medical professionals. Psychologists, neurologists, medical doctors, psychiatrists and psychedelic therapists provide an update on the compounds, their science, how they work, what the risks are, testimonials and a projected future for mental health care with psychedelics.”
Dr. Andrew Maclean Pagon, M.D., Ph.D. — Senior Consultant Psychiatrist & (Entheogenic) Psychotherapist & Hypnotherapist (Speaker)
Luc van Poelje — CEO of Psychedelic Insights BV/Ltd. (Speaker)
Institute of Psychedelic Therapy
“We offer a two-year psychedelic assisted therapist training that develops skilful, safe and compassionate work in the deep psyche. Graduates of the course will subsequently become professional members of the Institute of Psychedelic Therapy.
The course content will draw from psychedelic literature, archetypal psychology, transpersonal psychology, psychodynamic and attachment models, somatic experience, clinical research, shamanism and the world’s spiritual and wisdom traditions.”
The next course cycle will start in March 2024.
Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
“The BCSP’s novel program offers a 9-month, 175-hour approach to professional preparation for psychedelic facilitators:
150 instructional hours include weekend immersions, online small group and asynchronous learning, contemplative practice and a 5-day retreat. Most immersions take place on the UC Berkeley campus and the final retreat will be held off-site in the Bay Area. Experiential learning comprises the remaining 25 program hours, which trainees can fulfill in a variety of ways.”
PRATI
“PRATI is excited to announce our next ketamine-assisted psychotherapy training course taking place from July 14 – July 17, 2022! The event will be held at Sunrise Ranch, a beautiful retreat center in Loveland, Colorado.”
Registration Opens Monday April 11 at 9:00 am MST
Limited number of scholarships available for eligible participants
Same Summit Psychedelics
“Same Summit Psychedelics is offering a week-long retreat in Jamaica where you’ll have the opportunity to take what you learned in your psychedelic training program and put it into practice.”
• Training date: January 2023
Innate Path
“The Innate Path model begins with theory and quickly moves into applying it, learning during the psychedelic experience, rather than from it or about it. This learning doesn’t fundamentally happen by thinking or doing, but by feeling the complexity of how we experience our bodies, emotions and minds and learning the innate pathways to healing.”
For practitioners and students
Moxie School
“The Healing Healers Mentorship Program is for those who want to learn the fundamentals of IFS (Internal Family Systems therapy) as it applies to Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy. By learning navigation tools for exploring your internal world, IFS lends itself to harnessing all that expanded states of consciousness offer us for therapeutic healing and transformation.”
For therapists, coaches & guides
10-week course
Psychedelic Doula Academy
Psychedelic Doula Academy will teach you how to guide others through the ‘rebirth’ that’s possible through psychedelic-assisted therapy. You will learn all aspects of our proven method of care, from both the facilitator (aka doula’s) perspective and the participant (aka the voyager’s) perspective.
For therapists, coaches & guides