In-Person Experiential Learning

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.