Informal / Self-Development Programs

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.

Ayahuasca Wisdom is an ayahuasca integration education platform created by Kerry Moran, a Licensed Professional Counselor with a Master's in Counseling Psychology and 20+ years of psychotherapy experience specializing in plant medicine integration. The platform offers the 10-week online 'Integrating Ayahuasca' course drawing on depth psychology, Buddhist practice, and somatic approaches, alongside articles and resources for post-ceremony transformation.

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.

Calgary-based psychedelic integration therapy practice founded by Charmaine Husum DKATI, RTC, CT, an internationally recognized registered Canadian art therapist and somatic practitioner specializing in ayahuasca, entheogenic, and plant medicine preparation and integration. Drawing on somatic art therapy, Kundalini meditation, dreamwork, and sacred geometry, Centre of the Heart supports trauma recovery and psychological healing, and Husum's forthcoming book Psychedelics & Art Therapy: A Trauma-Informed Manual for Somatic Self-Discovery (Routledge, 2025) is the first of its kind.

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.

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.

Embodied Philosophy is a US-based online contemplative education platform founded in 2015, offering 1,000+ hours of on-demand courses, workshops, and programs spanning Indian philosophy, yoga, consciousness studies, and psychedelic integration to over 100,000 students and seekers worldwide. The Wisdom School serves yoga teachers, therapists, and scholar-practitioners through programs integrating somatic practices, psychedelic experience integration, and Eastern wisdom traditions.

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.

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.

Fluence is a psychedelic therapy education company co-founded by psychologists Dr. Ingmar Gorman and Dr. Elizabeth Nielson, offering continuing education courses and a Certificate in Psychedelic Therapy and Integration for licensed therapists and advanced graduate students. Having trained 8,000+ clinicians, Fluence draws on its founders' direct experience in FDA-approved Phase 3 clinical trials of MDMA- and psilocybin-assisted therapies.

Fungi Academy is an international mushroom cultivation and psychedelic education platform founded in 2016, offering online courses in sacred mushroom cultivation and psilocybin journeywork alongside 6-day immersive in-person retreat training programs held in Guatemala. The platform serves a global community of mycophiles, psychonauts, and therapists with accessible education on mushroom cultivation, journeywork preparation, and integration.

The Institute of Art and Ideas (IAI) is a UK-based philosophy and ideas platform offering the IAI Academy, a subscription-based online learning service with hundreds of courses on cutting-edge topics including psychedelic science and philosophy. Faculty include leading academics such as Prof. David Nutt and philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, making complex psychedelic research accessible to a global audience.

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.

The Idler is a UK magazine and learning academy founded by Tom Hodgkinson in 1993, championing philosophy, liberal arts, and the good life through online courses — including an exclusive multi-part psychedelics course by Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris of Imperial College London. The Idler Academy's 80+ digital courses make cutting-edge psychedelic science accessible to curious non-specialists worldwide.

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 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.

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.

Netherlands-based psilocybin retreat and facilitator training organization rooted in Irish ancestral traditions, founded by Dr. Darragh Stewart. Runs the Inwardbound Institute 7-day facilitation training program and psilocybin retreats drawing on trauma-informed somatic practices, IFS, and Grof's holotropic approach.

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.

Denver-based psychedelic education platform founded by Nicole Lilly, a somatic psychologist and healing arts practitioner with over 12 years of experience in entheogenic and psychedelic services, offering courses in the proprietary Luminous Methodology and Philosophy for embodied psycho-spiritual growth. The Luminous Guide specializes in self-guided sacred mushroom journeys, combining somatic psychology, body-centered practices, and sacred technologies for holistic healing and integration.

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.

Menla is a Tibetan healing arts retreat center in the Catskill Mountains of Phoenicia, New York, offering ketamine-assisted psychotherapy retreats and hosting trainings such as the Ketamine Training Center's Dharma K residential program. The center integrates contemplative Buddhist traditions with evidence-based psychedelic therapy in a mountain sanctuary setting.

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.

Microdosing for Healing is a platform founded by Kayse Gehret that provides coaching, guided microdosing immersions, community support, and professional facilitator training for using plant/earth medicines to support personal, physical, and spiritual healing. It runs courses, a podcast, and certification programs for practitioners and guides.

Netherlands-based global education, research, and community platform founded in 2017 by Hein Pijnnaken in Brielle, initially as Microdosing.nl and relaunched internationally as Microdosing Institute in 2020, positioned as Europe's first microdosing community with over 6,000 members. Microdosing Institute offers a 6-Week Microdosing Immersion, a Microdosing Facilitator Program, and academic research facilitation, and co-founded the International Microdosing Association alongside James Fadiman.

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.

Founded by Dr. Stephanie Van Hope, RN, DNP—a veteran of NYU's psilocybin cancer anxiety study—Nursing & Sacred Medicine offers the only extensive online course platform on psychedelic therapy designed specifically for nurses, blending sacred medicine traditions, current clinical science, and holistic nursing practice. Their self-paced and interactive courses aim to cultivate a psychedelic nursing community and prepare nurses at all practice levels.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Psilocybin SF offers a comprehensive self-paced online psilocybin course featuring expert faculty from MAPS, Zendo Project, CIIS, and other leading psychedelic organizations, providing accessible education on psilocybin therapy, harm reduction, and integration. Based in San Francisco, the platform serves both individuals and professionals seeking evidence-based psychedelic knowledge.

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.

Psychedelic Coalition for Health (PCH) is a clinician-led psychedelic medicine education and advocacy organization co-founded by psychotherapists Lauren Taus and Nicholas Brüss, offering psychedelic-assisted therapy training, virtual symposia, and scholarship programs for healthcare professionals. PCH trains licensed clinicians in ketamine, MDMA, and IFS-informed approaches while advocating for equitable access to and responsible implementation of psychedelic medicine.

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.

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.

The Psychedelic School is an online education platform co-founded by integration educator Shiri Malcolm Godasi and pharmacist Benjamin Malcolm, offering courses on psychedelic pharmacology, therapy, integration, and antidepressants for both laypeople and professionals. Designed to be accessible without requiring professional licensure, the platform delivers evidence-based psychedelic education to a broad audience.

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.

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.

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.

Petaluma, California-based transformational learning platform founded in 2010 that has engaged over 3.5 million people across 180 countries, featuring teachers and thought leaders in spirituality, holistic health, psychology, and consciousness expansion. The Shift Network hosts the annual Psychedelic Healing Summit and offers online courses on psilocybin science, therapeutic applications, facilitator selection, and the history and renaissance of psychedelic healing.

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.

Benjamin Malcolm's psychedelic pharmacology education and consulting platform offering continuing education courses for healthcare professionals on safe psychedelic therapy practices. Spirit Pharmacist bridges evidence-based pharmacology with clinical psychedelic practice through online courses, consulting services, and harm reduction resources.

Synthesis is a legal psilocybin retreat company based in the Netherlands, offering 'Immersion' — a comprehensive 7-week program including a 5-day in-person psilocybin truffle ceremony retreat held at the New Eden venue 90 minutes from Amsterdam. Founded in 2018 and having supported over 1,100 individuals, Synthesis integrates modern science with contemplative wisdom traditions and has collaborated with the Psychedelic Research Group at Imperial College London.

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.