49 Organisations

Certification & Credentialing Programs

Professional licensing courses and certification programmes required for legal psychedelic therapy practice.

Dozens of programmes now certify psychedelic practitioners, and almost none of those certificates carry legal force. This page tracks the certifying layer: who badges whom, for what.

The exceptions with real legal weight are programmes approved under state systems (Oregon and Colorado publish approved-provider lists). Everywhere else, a certificate’s value is reputational, resting on the programme’s rigour and recognition.

Organisations
49
Countries
8
Source-verified
7

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Training field map

Course evidence across this category

Course links are present, but many evidence fields are still missing or unclear.

Providers
49
With linked courses
48
Current courses
192
Evidence coverage
23%

Workforce pathways

Clinical care roles
181 linked courses
Facilitation and guiding
5 linked courses
Integration and coaching
3 linked courses
Academic and research pathways
1 linked course
Education and resource platforms
1 linked course
General training
1 linked course

Evidence dimensions

Training-hour evidence

100 hours / Estimated 100 hours

79/192

113 missing or not public-eligible.

Medicine self-experience evidence

Includes medicine self-experience / No medicine self-experience listed

50/192

142 missing or not public-eligible.

Supervised-practice evidence

Real-client practicum listed

2/192

190 missing or not public-eligible.

Entry-requirement evidence

Entry requirements: active licence; MSc; Licensed psychotherapists, Licensed mental health practitioners eligible / Entry requirements: Mental health professionals, Clinicians eligible

35/192

157 missing or not public-eligible.

Professional recognition evidence

Professional recognition: Colorado DORA, accreditation bodies / Professional recognition: Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA), Oregon Health Authority (OHA)

33/192

159 missing or not public-eligible.

Legal/practice relevance evidence

Legal/practice relevance: Colorado DORA, Natural Medicine Health Act (NMHA) / Legal/practice relevance: Colorado state regulations, Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA)

28/192

164 missing or not public-eligible.

Delivery/modality evidence

Online + United States / Online + Denver, United States + Portland, United States

116/192

76 missing or not public-eligible.

Competency coverage

10/192

182 missing or not public-eligible.

Provider rollups

Top linked providers in this filtered set

Fluence

Clinical care roles / Education and resource platforms

Loading... / Oregon Training in Psychedelics / Psychedelic Courses at Universities

59 linked
20% evidence

Psychedelic Support

Clinical care roles

Ethical Right Relationship in Psychedelic Therapy (Ethics 101) / Ethics Course Bundle (Ethics 101 - 106) / Foundational Course Bundle - Psilocybin, MDMA, & Ketamine

20 linked
43% evidence

Psychedelic Sitters School

Clinical care roles / General training

PSS1 Foundations in Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy / PSS2 Psychedelic Guide Training / Psychedelic Integration

9 linked
3% evidence

Numinus

Clinical care roles

Applied Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training Program Syllabus / Certification Pathway / Colorado Facilitator Training

8 linked
30% evidence

Alma Institute

Clinical care roles

Integration Courses / Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Courses / Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy Courses

6 linked
0% evidence

Phoenix Academy

Clinical care roles

Clinical Psychedelic Therapy / Insert/edit link / Level 1 Training Program

6 linked
19% evidence

Alef Trust

Clinical care roles / Integration and coaching

Attention Strategies / Attention Strategies Skills Course for Presence, Power and Inner Poise in Life and Leadership / Entheogens and Psychedelics

5 linked
13% evidence

Changa Institute

Clinical care roles

Colorado Psilocybin Facilitator Training | DORA-Approved Program / Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Certificate Program / Oregon Psilocybin Facilitator Training | OHA and HECC-Licensed Program

5 linked
50% evidence

Public data-quality gaps

  • Missing supervised-practice evidence190
  • Missing competency coverage182
  • Missing legal/practice relevance evidence164
  • Missing professional recognition evidence159
  • Missing entry-requirement evidence157
  • Missing medicine self-experience evidence142

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United States

AAA Learning Institute

AAA Learning Institute is an online education provider focused on psilocybin facilitator training and related psychedelic education. Its site says it offers structured, regulated training for adults seeking facilitator readiness in Oregon, including coursework, live online instruction and supervised practicum experience. LinkedIn lists the organisation as based in Eugene, Oregon, and founded in 2024.

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United States

Acadia Professional Learning

Acadia Professional Learning is an education organisation operating in Oregon and Colorado. It provides psilocybin facilitator training and professional development, with practical instruction in facilitation best practices, healthcare ethics, psilocybin science, trauma-informed care, and self-employment fundamentals. Its practicum training takes place in Portland, Oregon, and the organisation describes itself as exclusively a training programme.

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United Kingdom

Alef Trust

Non-Profit

Alef Trust is a UK-based transpersonal psychology educational institute founded by Emeritus Professor Brian Les Lancaster, offering an MSc in Consciousness, Spirituality & Transpersonal Psychology validated by Liverpool John Moores University and a professional certificate in Psychedelics, Altered States & Transpersonal Psychology taught by Dr. David Luke (Imperial College) and other leading researchers. The institute also offers collaborative PhDs and open learning courses integrating consciousness studies, parapsychology, and integrative healing traditions.

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United States

Alma Institute

Non-Profit

Alma Institute is an Oregon-based nonprofit training program founded by Rebecca Martinez to strengthen and diversify the network of licensed psilocybin facilitators by centering people from marginalized and low-income communities. One of only two nonprofits approved to provide OHA psilocybin facilitator training in Oregon, Alma integrates trauma-informed, culturally responsive pedagogy with the full Oregon Psilocybin Services licensing curriculum.

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Canada

Atma Journey

OtherUnverified1 source

ATMA Journey Centers is an Alberta-based Canadian pioneer in psychedelic-assisted therapy, operating clinically supervised locations across Canada while offering comprehensive psychedelic-assisted therapy training programs (ATMA CENA) covering psilocybin, MDMA, and ketamine for healthcare professionals. With 740+ training alumni and 800+ community members, ATMA also operates a clinic network partnership program and Phase II psilocybin clinical trials with Health Canada approval.

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United States

Awaken Aba

Other

Oregon-licensed psilocybin facilitation trade school based in Salem, approved by both the OHA and HECC. Claims to offer the most affordable and fastest-to-complete psilocybin facilitator program in Oregon, preparing students to pass the OPS licensing exam in as little as three months.

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United States

Beckley Academy

Other

Psychedelic-assisted therapy training arm co-founded by Beckley Waves and guided by Amanda Feilding, drawing on the Beckley Foundation's pioneering research. Offers cohort-based and self-managed courses for licensed mental health professionals in ketamine-, psilocybin-, and MDMA-assisted therapy, and published the first open-source Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Learning Framework.

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Spain

Being Evolution Club

Being Evolution Club is a training and retreat organisation that offers personal, spiritual, professional, educational, and social transformation courses, mentoring, and experiences. Its site presents certified training programmes in psychedelic and ancestral remedies, integrative coaching, and energy therapies, alongside retreats and events. The about page says it is based in Ibiza and describes the founder as Liana Silvey, who works across Ibiza, the USA, and Spain.

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United States

Being True to You

OtherVerified1 source

Being True to You (BTTY) is a pioneering Denver-based psychedelic integration and addiction recovery coaching company founded in 2010 by Deanne Adamson, operating the first and most comprehensive Transformational & Integration Coach Training Program with over 500 certified coaches worldwide. The organization offers one-on-one integration coaching, 12-month coach certification, and sitter and retreat staff training, partnering with wellness retreats, ibogaine programs, and psychedelic providers globally.

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United States

Bodhi Academy

Bodhi Academy is a psychedelic facilitator training provider. Its website says it offers a six-month certification programme that combines traditional wisdom, clinical research, hands-on practicum training, and an in-person retreat. LinkedIn lists the organisation as an education company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, and founded in 2021.

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Canada

Breakthrough Therapies

OtherVerified1 source

Breakthrough Therapies is a Toronto-based ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic and training organization founded by Dr. Dawn DeCunha, offering certified KAP training programs (Level 1 and Level 2 mentoring practicum) alongside a clinical KAP retreat program at their Aspenwood location north of Toronto. The organization bridges Trauma Informed and Psychedelically Informed Practice, training clinicians in psychedelic psychotherapy principles while providing patient care.

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United States

CIIS

Non-Profit

The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) launched the world's first university-affiliated Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research Certificate Program in 2015, establishing the gold standard for post-graduate psychedelic clinician training, with cohorts now also offered a B.S. in Psychedelic Studies and a KAP clinic. Based in San Francisco, CIIS is a non-profit graduate university pioneering integral approaches to consciousness, therapy, and psychedelic medicine.

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United States

Changa Institute

Other

Changa Institute is one of the first OHA- and HECC-licensed psilocybin facilitator training programs in Oregon and Colorado, founded by Lisa Ginzburg in 2021, with alumni now leading over 33 of Oregon's licensed psilocybin service centers. The institute offers comprehensive facilitator certification programs and a Psychedelic Integration Mastercourse, blending rigorous academic instruction with clinical practicum.

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United States

Danielle Brooks

Danielle Brooks is a psychedelic integration and coaching provider that offers one to one guidance, books, and training programmes focused on helping people integrate psychedelic and spiritual experiences into daily life. Her site also offers a psychedelic integration certification and related educational material for guides and practitioners. The site describes the work as legal integration coaching and harm reduction, rather than providing or recommending illegal substances.

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United States

Elemental Psychedelics

Elemental Psychedelics is a Colorado-based psychedelic facilitator training centre. It offers training and experiential programmes for clinicians and non-clinical practitioners, including psilocybin mushroom facilitation and ketamine-assisted therapy. The founders say the organisation was created to bridge traditional mental health systems with safe, ethical, and respectful psychedelic work.

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United States

Entheogen Institute

Other

The Entheogen Institute is an OHA-approved psilocybin facilitator training program in Ashland, Oregon, offering a 16-week curriculum rooted in Indigenous wisdom, harm reduction, and non-directive facilitation practices. The program prepares students to pass the Oregon Psilocybin Services facilitator exam and qualify for state licensure under Measure 109, grounded in trauma-informed care and empathic presence.

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Netherlands

Experiential Training Institute

OtherVerified1 source

Netherlands-based psychedelic practitioner training and retreat organization founded in 2022 by mental health professionals Jeanine Souren and Hans van Wechem, offering the first FGzPT/NVP/NVvP-accredited psilocybin facilitation training program in the Netherlands. ETI's Core Practitioner Training combines an 18-week Education Module with a 4-day Experiential Retreat, covering IFS, constellations, trauma-informed facilitation, and full-spectrum psychedelic care from screening through integration.

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United States

Fluence

OtherVerified1 source

Specialized psychedelic clinical trial services provider focused on therapist and facilitator training, protocol/manual support, adherence frameworks, and sponsor-facing trial preparation.

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United States

Functional Psychiatry Consulting

Functional Psychiatry Consulting appears to be the training and educational arm associated with Driftless Integrative Psychiatry. Its site offers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy training for health care professionals, as well as clinician mentorship in integrative and conventional psychiatry. The site also describes the organisation’s clinical model as whole-system psychiatry that combines integrative and functional medicine, metabolic psychiatry, neuroimmune science, and trauma-informed therapy.

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United States

Innate Path

OtherVerified1 source

Innate Path is a Broomfield, Colorado psychedelic therapy clinic and training program specializing in ketamine and cannabis-assisted psychotherapy using a relational, somatic, and Buddhist-informed approach to trauma resolution through non-ordinary states. The center trains psychotherapists in its unique psycholytic model — integrating somatic, psychodynamic, parts work, and attachment modalities — while providing clinical ketamine and cannabis-assisted psychotherapy to patients.

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United States

InnerTrek

Other

Portland, Oregon-based psilocybin facilitator training organization and licensed service center approved by the Oregon Health Authority, Higher Education Coordinating Commission, and Colorado's DORA, created by the architect of the country's first legal public psilocybin services model. InnerTrek's Level 2 licensure-track program delivers 150+ hours of didactic training and 40 hours of supervised practicum, qualifying graduates for state licensure in both Oregon and Colorado, with open practicums also available to students from other US licensed programs.

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United Kingdom

Institute of Psychedelic Therapy

Non-Profit

The Institute of Psychedelic Therapy (IPT) is a UK-based professional training organization offering a comprehensive two-year psychedelic-assisted therapist training program combining weekly online lectures, in-person meetings, and 5-day experiential residential retreats each year. IPT emphasizes slow, relational skill cultivation, robust ethics, and integration of psychedelic work within long-term therapeutic frameworks, with graduates eligible for professional membership.

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United States

Ketamine Academy

Other

Online certification training provider for healthcare professionals seeking to offer subanesthetic ketamine therapy. Offers two self-study course tracks — clinical-only and business-and-clinical — covering protocols, patient safety, consents, and business launch guidance for starting a ketamine clinic.

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United States

Leela School of Awakening

Non-ProfitVerified1 source

Founded in 2006 by Eli Jaxon-Bear, the Leela School of Awakening is an Ashland, Oregon-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit offering an Oregon HECC-approved 10-month psilocybin facilitator training program alongside 2-year therapist certification and international spiritual awakening retreats. Their approach integrates trauma-informed care, clinical hypnosis, Enneagram, and self-inquiry tools with psilocybin facilitation.

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United States

Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts

Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts is a Boulder-based organisation that provides psychedelic education, research, clinical care, and practitioner training. Its website says it offers facilitator training, mentorship and consultation, clinical services, and research and development. The centre describes itself as one of Colorado’s inaugural psilocybin facilitator training providers and an approved Natural Medicine training programme.

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United States

Mending Mindcelium

Other

Founded in 2022, Mending Mindcelium is an Oregon-based organization offering Oregon Health Authority-approved psilocybin facilitator training through a 14-week hybrid program focused on community healing with plant medicine. Their curriculum emphasizes inclusive, trauma-informed facilitation skills for individuals seeking to support others in psilocybin-assisted therapy.

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Australia

Mind Medicine Australia

Non-ProfitVerified7 sources

Mind Medicine Australia is a national nonprofit that has played a defining role in Australia's regulated psychedelic-access environment. Its public work spans rescheduling advocacy, implementation support, clinician training, patient support funding, and ongoing efforts to broaden access pathways. Although it is broader than a pure patient group, it is too important to leave out of Blossom's access map. The organization now reports active involvement in regulatory follow-through, rollout improvements, patient support, and collaboration with End Wise on palliative-care expansion.

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Canada

Mindspace

OtherUnverified1 source

Founded in 2011, Mindspace Wellbeing is a Montreal-based psychology clinic that pioneered psychedelic-assisted therapy in Quebec, becoming the province's first provider of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for treatment-resistant depression and launching Canada's first psychedelic harm reduction and integration training for clinicians. Acquired by Numinus Wellness in 2021, they continue offering evidence-based psychotherapy alongside ketamine and psilocybin programming.

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Canada

Noctua Academy

Noctua Academy is an online training provider focused on ketamine-assisted therapy and broader psychedelic-assisted therapies for medical, therapeutic, and mental health professionals. Its site says it provides comprehensive training grounded in safety, ethics, and evidence-based practice, with courses aimed at screening, preparation, dosing awareness, and integration work.

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Canada

Numinus

Public BiotechUnverified1 source

Numinus Wellness Inc. is a Vancouver-based mental health company focused on psychedelic-assisted therapy: it provides practitioner training, clinical research services, and (formerly) operated clinics and a Health Canada‑licensed bioscience laboratory for psychedelic research and product development.

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Thailand

PSILOTHAI

PsiloThai is a psilocybin advocacy group registered in Thailand. It offers facilitator training and retreats at New Earth Centre on Koh Phangan island. The site says it provides Asia’s first legal psilocybin facilitator programme and focuses on research, education, and psilocybin session protocols.

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Canada

Phoenix Academy

Other

Phoenix Academy is a Canada-based psychedelic therapy training organization founded by Bradley Foster (creator of the Toronto Psychedelic Society), offering a 100+ hour online course combined with an 8-day residential retreat for Level 1 certification in psychedelic-assisted therapy. The program trains practitioners in protocols involving psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, and other medicines, with a Level 2 'Heal the Healer' program for inner work and advanced practice.

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United States

Plant Spirit School

Other

Plant Spirit School is an online integration coach certification school founded by Lorna Liana, offering a 6-month program blending ancestral shamanic teachings, harm reduction, neuroscience of psychedelics, and ethical business development for aspiring coaches in the plant medicine field. The school advocates for indigenous sovereignty and decolonization of plant medicines alongside practical professional training.

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United States

Psyched Soul

Other

Psyched Soul is a virtual psychedelic integration coaching certification platform founded by Shiri Godasi, a pioneering integration teacher and co-founder of the community nonprofit PsychedeLiA (Psychedelic Integration Los Angeles). The Psyched Soul PlaySkool™ offers professional training in psychedelic integration, harm reduction, transpersonal psychology, and soul-aligned business building for coaches and practitioners entering the psychedelic field.

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Psychedelic Guide Institute

Psychedelic Guide Institute is a training and support organisation focused on psilocybin and N,N-DMT. Its website says it offers a 12-week Psilocybin Guide Training programme, as well as somatic breathwork training, microdose coach training, personalised psychedelic journeys, integration support, and harm reduction services. Its about page states that it was founded in 2021 by a team of experienced psychedelic guides and coaches.

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United States

Psychedelic Sitters School

Other

Operating since 2012 as the training program of the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness in Boulder, Colorado, Psychedelic Sitters School trains licensed clinicians and guides-in-training in Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy® across four medicines—cannabis, ketamine, psilocybin, and DMT—through in-person, hybrid, and online formats. Now in their 13th year with over 35 cohorts completed, they are one of the longest-running psychedelic guide training programs in the United States.

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United States

Psychedelic Somatic Institute

Other

Mission-driven therapy organization and training institute specializing in Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) — a highly relational, embodied model designed to pair with ketamine and cannabis for treating complex developmental trauma. Runs small-cohort apprenticeship trainings (3 students) for licensed clinicians and allied health professionals internationally.

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United States

Psychedelic Support

OtherVerified1 source

Psychedelic Support is an online education and therapeutic platform offering accredited continuing education, online courses, and a vetted directory of licensed healthcare providers and community groups focused on psychedelic integration, harm reduction, and clinical referrals. It was founded in March 2018 to advance legal psychedelic-assisted therapies and professional training. ([psychedelic.support](https://psychedelic.support/our-story/))

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Norway

Psykologvirke

Other

Oslo-based private psychology clinic of 30 psychologists founded by Ivar Goksøyr, and the first established psychology clinic in Norway to offer ketamine-assisted therapy following national approval. Psykologvirke trains mental health professionals in MDMA- and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, contributes to international educational frameworks, and Goksøyr is an active MAPS-certified MDMA therapist conducting clinical trials at Psykforsk, Østfold State Hospital.

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Netherlands

Reciproco

Other

Recíproco Method is an online professional development platform co-founded by Amánda Argot Efthimiou and Sascha Anna Vriend, offering self-paced and live-cohort psychedelic integration training for therapists, practitioners, and coaches. Drawing on clinical psychology, neuroscience, somatic therapies, and shamanic wisdom, the 40-hour program covers integration methodology, ethics, and the neuroscience of altered states of consciousness.

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United States

Sage Integrative Health

Sage Integrative Health is a clinic in the San Francisco Bay Area that offers integrative mental health care, ketamine-assisted therapy, psychotherapy, psychiatry, and psychedelic integration. Its website says it is located in south Berkeley on the border with Oakland and serves Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and the wider Bay Area. I could not find a clear founding year on the site or in the retrieved registry and LinkedIn material.

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United States

Skylight

Other

Skylight Psychedelics is a physician-led online training platform offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) courses for licensed therapists and mental health professionals. The platform provides accessible, CE-eligible training in KAP protocols and psychedelic-assisted therapy integration.

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United States

SoundMind

OtherVerified1 source

SoundMind Institute is a Philadelphia-based psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy training, treatment, and research organization founded by Dr. Hannah McLane, offering a comprehensive year-long Psychedelic Practitioner Training Program and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy treatment. Integrating Indigenous healing traditions with clinical evidence, its nonprofit arm has provided over $280,000 in scholarships to BIPOC and underrepresented psychedelic providers.

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United States

Synaptic Institute

Non-Profit

Synaptic Institute is a Portland-based nonprofit offering entheogenic medicine training programs and holistic healing experiences, with certification in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy for healthcare professionals. The institute provides comprehensive KAP training designed to equip clinicians with the skills to safely and ethically integrate ketamine into psychedelic-assisted therapy practice.

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United States

Tam Integration

OtherVerified1 source

Tam Integration offers psychedelic integration support through Mt. Tamalpais Integration Circles in the San Francisco Bay Area and a year-long integration coach training program for practitioners. The organization also hosts the annual Mt. Tam Integration Jam conference, fostering community among Bay Area integration practitioners.

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United States

Telos

OtherUnverified1 source

Founded in 2019 by Dr. Rafael Gonzalez-Vizoso and Scott Ross, Telos is a Mountlake Terrace, Washington practice offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy through a collaborative model that enables licensed practitioners to integrate psychedelic-assisted therapy into their practices. They also offer training in core competencies of ketamine-assisted therapy for mental health providers.

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United States

The Board of Medicine

A nonprofit medical education organization dedicated to advancing psychedelic medicine and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. The Board of Medicine certifies clinicians in evidence-based psychedelic treatments, develops best practices for the field, and serves as an educational resource for healthcare providers and the broader community interested in psychedelic therapies.

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United States

The Embody Lab

The Embody Lab is an online education provider focused on somatic, body-based, and trauma-informed training. Its website describes it as a hub for embodied education, self-discovery, and healing, and it offers certificates, workshops, memberships, and a therapist directory. Public site pages show The Embody Lab LLC with a Delaware address in the United States. I could not find a clear founding year on the sources reviewed.

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Canada

TheraPsil

Non-ProfitVerified7 sources

TheraPsil is a Canadian nonprofit focused on legal access to psychedelic-assisted therapy for people in medical need. Its current public work spans patient navigation, prescriber and therapist training, referrals, and sustained advocacy around federal access pathways. The organization remains one of the clearest Canadian patient-access stakeholders because it links policy work to concrete care pathways. Current materials show active work on Project Solace, ongoing clinician upskilling, and new Manitoba progress around MDMA-assisted therapy.

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Frequently asked questions

Do any of these certificates carry legal authority?

Only those tied to a state licensing system: Oregon and Colorado name approved training providers whose graduates can sit facilitator licensing. Outside those programmes, no certificate confers permission to give anyone a psychedelic.

Which certifications do employers recognise?

The established multi-year programmes with supervised practice components carry the most weight with clinics and trial sponsors. Our competencies pages map programme content against clinical competency frameworks, which is a sturdier comparison than brand recognition.

How do certification bodies relate to training providers?

Many organisations are both: they teach and certify their own graduates, which is worth noticing when weighing what a certificate independently attests. Separate credentialing bodies that assess graduates of any programme remain rare in this field.