Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program (2022 – 2025)

The Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program ran from 2022 to 2025 through UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley School of Education. The page preserves the program’s history and states that it is no longer actively updated as of July 1, 2025. The program was designed for advanced religious, spiritual care, and healthcare professionals working in areas such as chaplaincy, ministry, medicine, nursing, mental health counseling, psychology, psychiatry, and social work, as well as people trained in traditional plant medicine lineages. It emphasized safe, legal, culturally sensitive psychedelic care, with focus on spiritual care, ancestral traditions, equity, access, ethics, and sociocultural context. The nine-month, 200-hour program included 160 instructional hours delivered mostly in person across seven three- to five-day modules, plus monthly online small-group meetings and JEDI panels. An optional 40-hour hands-on practicum was available for some licensure pathways, and financial assistance was offered to qualified applicants from historically underserved communities.