Formal / Academic Training

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.

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.

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.

UK-based association connecting transpersonal psychology practitioners, offering a Psychedelic Practitioner Training program grounded in the Phelps seven-competencies framework, and organizing legal psilocybin retreats in the Netherlands facilitated by transpersonal-trained practitioners with personal psychedelic journey experience. BTA team members have served as study therapists on Phase 3 MDMA-assisted therapy trials for PTSD and as co-investigators on Usona-sponsored psilocybin-for-depression studies, and collaborate with the UK Institute for Psychedelic Therapy.

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.

The CU Denver Center for Psychedelic Research is a University of Colorado Denver centre that launched in 2024. It focuses on research and education about psychedelic interventions, including their therapeutic effects, mechanisms, and broader social and public health implications. The centre also develops training for facilitators in psychedelic-assisted services and works with researchers and public stakeholders.

College of DuPage is a community college in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, offering "Psychedelic Mindview," an 8-week asynchronous online continuing education course taught by Bruce Sewick that examines psychedelics through historical, clinical, cultural, and psychological lenses. The course covers indigenous use, contemporary research, and the therapeutic potential of psychedelic medicines, with no pre-enrollment criteria required.

The European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) is a non-profit scientific association dedicated to the science and treatment of disorders of the brain. Founded in 1987 and based in Utrecht, it runs Europe's largest applied neuroscience meeting, supports thematic research networks (including a dedicated Psychedelic Research Network), and delivers education through its online Knowledge Hub.

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

Italian professional education platform for mental health practitioners, offering over 350 on-demand webinars, courses, and live events with continuing medical education (ECM) credits. Founded in 2004 by psychologist Alessandro Carmelita and Valeria Idini, ISC delivers cutting-edge training to clinicians internationally, including a course on mindfulness, compassion, and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.

Educational platform co-founded by Dr. Will Van Derveer and Keith Kurlander that trains therapists, physicians, and nurses in psychedelic-assisted therapy through a year-long online program taught by 50+ experts including Robin Carhart-Harris, Michael Pollan, and Rick Doblin. IPI's curriculum covers evidence-based protocols for PTSD, depression, and anxiety, and partners with the Usona Institute and MAPS to prepare clinicians for emerging MDMA- and psilocybin-assisted treatments.

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.

The Integrative Mental Health University (IMHU) is a nonprofit continuing education platform founded by Emma Bragdon PhD in 2013, offering accredited courses for mental health professionals on psychedelic-assisted therapy, spiritual emergence, and integrative healing modalities. IMHU serves clinicians seeking to incorporate psychedelic therapy and spiritual emergency response into their professional practice.

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.

Asheville, North Carolina-based psychedelic therapy training institute founded in 2019 by board-certified psychiatrist Dr. Signi Goldman and licensed psychologist Dr. Sandra Newes, offering concierge-level ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) training, mentorship, supervision, and community to aspiring psychedelic-assisted therapy clinicians. Living Medicine Institute combines modern neuroscience with ancient healing traditions, provides BIPOC therapist scholarships for underserved communities, and produces the Living Medicine podcast featuring leading psychedelic researchers and clinicians.

Maple Counseling Center is a low-fee nonprofit counseling center in Beverly Hills, California that co-sponsors continuing education courses on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for mental health professionals in partnership with the Lifespan Learning Institute. The center promotes evidence-based and emerging therapeutic modalities for the Southern California mental health community.

The Michener Institute, a clinical health sciences education affiliate of the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, offers a Foundations of Psychedelic Psychotherapy course for healthcare professionals seeking training in ketamine-assisted and psychedelic therapy modalities. As part of one of Canada's leading academic health science institutions, the program bridges clinical rigour with the emerging evidence base for psychedelic-assisted therapy.

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.

Canadian psychedelic-enhanced psychotherapy training organization and creator of the MindSetting TRIP Protocol™, an evidence-based five-step active therapist-participation model. Delivers certificate programs for registered clinicians to integrate psychedelic psychotherapy into private practice, and was acquired by Optimind Pharma Corp in 2022.

Naropa University is a Boulder, Colorado Buddhist-inspired private university founded in 1974 that emerged as a national leader in psychedelic education through its Naropa Center for Psychedelic Studies (NCPS) and undergraduate Psychedelic Studies Minor. The NCPS separated in late 2024 to become the independent Memoru Center for Visionary Healing Arts, while Naropa continues to offer its contemplative-approach psychedelic studies minor and transpersonal psychology graduate programs.

Non-profit community of practitioners, researchers, and educators based in Fort Collins, Colorado, committed to integrating psychedelic medicines into mental health care through training and clinically relevant research. PRATI offers Foundational KAP (ketamine-assisted psychotherapy), End of Life care, and Colorado Natural Medicine Health Act facilitation programs, and has trained over 140 healthcare professionals.

PESI is a leading continuing education provider for mental health professionals, offering accredited online courses on psychedelic-assisted therapies including MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, and microdosing, covering clinical frameworks, ethics, harm reduction, and client communication for therapists, counselors, nurses, and psychiatrists. Their trainings help clinicians build competence in this rapidly emerging therapeutic field and earn CE credits required for licensure.

Polaris Insight Center is a San Francisco Bay Area ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic and APA-approved training center co-founded by MAPS-trained therapist Veronika Gold LMFT, offering a comprehensive KAP training program of online didactic modules, in-person experiential retreats, consultation groups, and a 1–2 year practitioner certificate. The center provides KAP patient care while training clinicians across foundational, advanced, and special topics series in ketamine and psychedelic-assisted therapy.

San Francisco-based ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic and APA-approved training center co-founded by Veronika Gold LMFT, offering individualized KAP sessions alongside a comprehensive certificate program in ketamine and psychedelic-assisted therapy. Polaris Insight partners with Rainfall Medicine to deliver a 1-to-2-year practitioner certification pathway, featuring online didactics, in-person experiential retreats, and case consultation.

Founded in 2015 and based in Oakland, California, Praxis Continuing Education and Training offers jointly accredited professional development for behavioral health clinicians, including courses bridging psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT). They serve psychologists, therapists, counselors, social workers, and nurses through on-demand, live online, and in-person formats.

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.

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.

Founded in 2019, Resilience Behavioral Health Solutions is a Tucson, Arizona clinic specializing in intramuscular ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) for treatment-resistant depression, PTSD, and trauma, using approaches modeled on MDMA and psilocybin clinical trial protocols. They also offer AANP-accredited 4-day KAP training programs for licensed clinicians and mental health providers.

Oregon-based 501(c)(3) interfaith cooperative and OHA-approved psilocybin facilitator training organization whose Myco Method program merges interfaith spirituality with psychedelic guidance across 160 hours of in-person, online, and practicum instruction. Saba Cooperative operates under a distributed congregational model as a 508(c)(1)(a) interfaith religious organization, pioneering the integration of cross-cultural spiritual practices, mystical tools, and participant autonomy in legal Oregon psilocybin facilitation training.

US-based ketamine-assisted psychotherapy clinic and clinician training organization offering KAP client sessions, clinician training, and wellness retreats while building an intentional community of practitioners interested in expanded states of consciousness and psychedelic medicine. Sapience is actively expanding into MDMA- and psilocybin-assisted therapy as federal regulatory frameworks allow, with plans to grow its education and research arms.

The Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior at UCLA is a UCLA-based institute focused on human neuroscience research, education, clinical care, and wellbeing. It provides a collaborative setting for researchers and faculty studying the genetic, biological, behavioural, and sociocultural bases of behaviour and neuropsychiatric disorders. It also supports training, translational research, and clinical services aimed at improving mental health and wellbeing.

Southern Methodist University (SMU) is a private research university in Dallas, Texas, offering the course "Plants of the Gods: Religion and Psychedelics" through its Religious Studies department, taught by University Distinguished Teaching Professor Dr. G. William Barnard. The course examines the historical and cultural significance of entheogenic plants — including peyote, ayahuasca, and psilocybin mushrooms — across diverse religious traditions.

Southwestern College is a public community college in Chula Vista, California, part of the Southwestern Community College District. It offers associate degrees, transfer pathways, workforce training, and continuing education across multiple campuses.

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.

Founded by Phil Wolfson (author of The Ketamine Papers), the Ketamine Training Center is a San Anselmo, California pioneer in ketamine-assisted psychotherapy training, offering 6-day immersive residential retreats that blend theoretical and experiential learning, awarding 30 AMA Category I CME credits. They have trained over 800 practitioners across the US in a collaborative model emphasizing the provider's personal ketamine experience.

The University of Ottawa launched a groundbreaking one-year MA in Psychedelics and Consciousness Studies in 2024, jointly offered by the Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Arts under co-directors Dr. Monnica Williams and Dr. Anne Vallely. The program builds on earlier microprograms in Psychedelic Science and Psychedelics & Spirituality Studies established since 2020, training licensed professionals, clergy, and researchers in therapeutic, spiritual, and academic dimensions of psychedelics.