Psychedelic Professional Development

Licensed and non-licensed practitioner members of the Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family Therapy receive ongoing professional development resources and access to peer support, supervision and consultation.

Psychedelic Professional Development
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Ongoing professional development resources in ketamine / psychedelic support, work/study opportunities provided. International applicants welcome to apply.

In collaboration with local medical clinics around the world, we can help you implement psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and support in a way that makes sense in your community.


Add Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy & Support in person and/or remotely to your practice/clinic


Start Here: Psychedelic Institute Membership

We offer non-clinician subscription patrons access to specially curated materials on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. For clinicians, we have an expanded access community with access to practical professional development resources. For professionals who have completed our 12 week practicum, we have sustaining member-level memberships which include 1 hour of monthly clinical consultation.

Professional Development Offerings:

The Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family Therapy, PC offers psychedelic mental health support and practitioner apprenticeships (practicum, internship, externship, Clinical & Non-Clinical Fellowships). The Psychedelic Institute is not a degree-granting institution, school or training program. We offer professional development to practitioners specializing in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and support, specifically ketamine, from a cognitive-behavioral therapy approach.

Ofertas de desarrollo profesional:

El Instituto Psicodélico de Salud Mental y Terapia Familiar, PC ofrece apoyo en salud mental psicodélica y aprendizaje para profesionales (prácticas, pasantías, prácticas externas, becas clínicas y no clínicas). El Instituto Psicodélico no es una institución, escuela o programa de formación que otorgue títulos. Ofrecemos desarrollo profesional a profesionales especializados en psicoterapia asistida por psicodélicos, específicamente ketamina, desde un enfoque de terapia cognitivo-conductual.

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy & Support | Psicoterapia Asistida con Ketamina y Apoyo

Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy & Support Curriculum / Practicum
Developed by Michael DeMarco, LMFT, PhD, Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family Therapy, Psyche, LLC, Founding Fellow | A 12 module, 96 hour cognitive-behavioral psychedelic apprenticeship including live demonstrations and experiential practice with physician-prescribed racemic ketamine

Option 1: Online Practicum– Currently we are offering 12 weeks of ketamine-assisted psychotherapy & support via zoom with our next clinical practicum starting in February 2025. With local medical collaboration, you'll have 12 experiences with ketamine, and 12 experiences sitting with another person working with ketamine, 12 didactic lectures, 12 peer integration sessions, and 12 sessions of individual clinical supervision. $7200 (broken into two 6 week modules)

Opción 1: Practicum Online- Actualmente estamos ofreciendo 12 semanas de psicoterapia asistida con ketamina y apoyo vía zoom con nuestro próximo practicum clínico comenzando en Febrero de 2025. Con colaboración médica local, tendrás 12 experiencias con ketamina, y 12 experiencias sentado con otra persona trabajando con ketamina, 12 conferencias didácticas, 12 sesiones de integración de pares, y 12 sesiones de supervisión clínica individual. $7200 (dividido en dos módulos de 6 semanas)

Option 2: Host a Clinical Fellow– We come to YOUR practice to consult with you and your staff on ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and support from a cognitive behavioral therapy perspective, offering a secular, yet culturally-sensitive infrastructure to your community's rollout of psychedelic medicines. With local medical collaboration, you'll have 12 experiences with ketamine, and 12 experiences sitting with another person working with ketamine, 12 didactic lectures, 12 peer integration sessions, and 12 sessions of individual clinical supervision. ($7200 plus living & travel expenses)

Not a native English speaker? We'll use technology to interpret and translate our materials into local languages.

Opción 2: Acoger a un Becario Clínico- Vamos a TU consulta para consultarte a ti y a tu personal sobre psicoterapia asistida con ketamina y apoyo desde una perspectiva de terapia cognitivo-conductual, ofreciendo una infraestructura secular, pero culturalmente sensible al despliegue de medicinas psicodélicas en tu comunidad. Con la colaboración médica local, tendrás 12 experiencias con ketamina, y 12 experiencias sentado con otra persona trabajando con ketamina, 12 conferencias didácticas, 12 sesiones de integración entre pares, y 12 sesiones de supervisión clínica individual. ($7200 más gastos de manutención y viaje)
¿No eres hablante nativo de inglés? Utilizaremos la tecnología para interpretar y traducir nuestros materiales a los idiomas locales.

Non-Licensed Practitioner Track

You don't have to be a licensed mental health provider to support someone in applying psychedelic medicine to a mental health practice. A license is a minimum level of standards to practice a healthcare profession.

We require SMART Recovery volunteer facilitator training for those who are not licensed mental health providers or licensed medical clinicians. This allows more community mental health and substance abuse resources beyond working with a licensed therapist. Community resources take over where the client leaves off in treatment. SMART Recovery is a cognitive behavioral therapy approach to substance dependency provided in community meeting settings and online, and uses many similar tools introduced in psychotherapy.

Facilitator Training Scholarships available by the Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health & Family Therapy. Contact Us to learn more.

Facilitator Training and Support Meetings | VolunteerHQ

Practicante no licenciado


No tienes que ser un proveedor de salud mental licenciado para apoyar a alguien en la aplicación de la medicina psicodélica a una práctica de salud mental.
Requerimos la formación de facilitador voluntario de SMART Recovery para aquellos que no son proveedores de salud mental con licencia o médicos clínicos con licencia. Esto permite más recursos comunitarios de salud mental y abuso de sustancias más allá de trabajar con un terapeuta licenciado. Los recursos comunitarios toman el relevo donde el cliente lo deja en el tratamiento. SMART Recovery es un enfoque de terapia cognitivo-conductual para la dependencia de sustancias que se ofrece en entornos de reuniones comunitarias y en línea, y utiliza muchas herramientas similares introducidas en la psicoterapia.
Becas de Formación de Facilitadores disponibles por el Instituto Psicodélico de Salud Mental y Terapia Familiar. Póngase en contacto con nosotros para obtener más información.

Quien somos - SMART Recovery en Español
¿Que es SMART RecoveryⓇ? SMART RecoveryⓇ es un nuevo enfoque para la recuperación de adicciones.SMART son las siglas en inglés de Entrenamiento para la Autogestión y la Recuperación. Es más que un acrónimo: es un método transformador para pasar de las sustancias adictivas y los comportamientos negativos a una vida de autoestima positiva y voluntad

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The Importance of Psychedelic Practice and Experience for Mental Health Practitioners
This past summer I completed a 12-week therapeutic ketamine journey practicum and supervision with Psychedelic Institute of Mental Health and Family Therapy. I am excited to share my experience with you!

The analysis identified five interconnected themes, illustrating how trainees had (i) identified self-schemas, (ii) increased their awareness of personal context, and (iii) conceptualised the role of the self in the therapeutic process; they had then achieved (iv) personal–professional development via experiential change methods, resulting in (v) perceived benefits for their clinical practice. SP/SR may therefore be a useful vehicle to enhance personal and professional development during training by helping trainees to understand and address the role of the self in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy.

CBT practitioner guidance for, during, and following the COVID-19 pandemic
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Smart Recovery Podcast with Dr. Michael DeMarco - Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: Research and Practice
Survey of Massachusetts peer recovery coaches’ attitudes toward the use of psychedelics to treat substance use disorders - Addiction Science & Clinical Practice
Background There has been a growing interest in the use of psychedelics for therapeutic purposes. However, there is a lack of research on peer recovery coaches’ attitudes toward the use of psychedelics for SUD treatment. Therefore, we conducted a survey of peer recovery coaches in Massachusetts to gain insight into their attitudes toward the use of psychedelics to treat SUDs. Methods Peer recovery coaches in Massachusetts were invited to participate in an online survey between August and October 2023. The survey collected respondents’ demographics, socioeconomic characteristics, personal substance use history, opinions on psychedelics for addiction treatment, and spiritual experiences. Results 146 individuals completed the survey. The mean age was 48.7 years (SD 11.2), 61% identified as female, 74% were employed as peer recovery coaches, and 43% were Certified Addiction Recovery Coaches (CARC). 70.7% reported utilizing 12-step programs, and 76% reported having a personal history of using psychedelics. The majority of participants agreed that they would feel comfortable being a coach for someone using psychedelics to treat SUDs. However, a significant number of participants expressed concerns. Those who had utilized 12-steps were more likely to express concerns about the dangers of using psychedelics to treat SUD. Conversely, participants with a personal history of psychedelic use were more likely to support the use of psychedelics for the treatment of SUDs. Conclusions While peer recovery coaches express support for using psychedelics to treat SUD, they also voice concerns about the potential risks.

Ketamine for the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders: comprehensive systematic review | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core
Ketamine for the treatment of mental health and substance use disorders: comprehensive systematic review - Volume 8 Issue 1
Psychedelic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: On Ketamine, Context and Competencies in “Assisted-Psychotherapy”
There are many tools to help a psychotherapist help clients learn to speak the language of cognitive behavioral therapy, especially tools which may help facilitate therapeutic alliance, including, but not limited to telehealth.
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Our psychedelic assistance program is designed to help you put into modern mental health terms a practice of working with non-ordinary states of consciousness that go back for millennia. Some of these practices may include working with medicines that elicit an experience we now call “psychedelic”. C

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