Essential education for future psychedelic therapists: Foundations of Psychedelic Therapy online program plus ADEPT pathway

Foundations of Psychedelic Therapy is a fully online education programme for mental health practitioners that prepares clinicians to contextualise and integrate psychedelic-assisted therapy within a clinical framework. The programme runs as a 13-month, small-cohort course with recorded expert-led modules, guided peer interaction, and live expert sessions. Learning goals cover core therapeutic practices, client-centered preparation and support, pharmacology and neurobiology, safety through screenings and risk mitigation, and ethical topics such as informed consent and therapeutic touch. Curriculum modules follow the PAT lifecycle from preparation through sessions and integration, including work with non-ordinary states of consciousness and the role of ritual or community in contextualising experiences. It also includes group therapy content and practical supervised sessions that use legal psilocybin-containing truffles, alongside discussion of modern evidence, limitations, and outcomes. The page positions Foundations as a first step toward the longer ADEPT training pathway, with partial accreditation options and a certificate of completion that may count toward ADEPT if participants meet eligibility requirements.