Psychedelic therapies are on the horizon

Psychedelics are gaining momentum as potential therapies for certain mental health conditions and may soon be prescribed by doctors in some states. As clinical trials on psychedelics continue, and as legalization efforts gain win after win, schools are ramping up efforts to train the therapists and practitioners who will administer them.

Psychedelic therapy is nowhere near as simple as filling a prescription and taking a pill at home. Instead, administering psychedelics — such as psilocybin, the compound in “magic mushrooms,” among others — can be a daylong experience where trained practitioners constantly monitor the patient.

Janis Phelps is on the front line of training those practitioners. A clinical psychologist, she founded and now leads the first accredited psychedelic therapy training program in the U.S. at the California Institute of Integral Studies. The San Francisco University opened its doors in 1968 and offered psychology, counselling, spirituality and Eastern medicine courses.

The CIIS has trained roughly 800 students in the psychedelic program since 2016, Phelps said. And with receptiveness toward psychedelics growing, more practitioners are seeking out instruction. The program tripled in size after expanding to add a training site in Boston last year.
Phelps estimates that at least 8,000 newly trained therapists will be needed in the next decade.

“We decided we need so many therapists trained, and there’s so few people on the planet who know how to use this effectively, that we started training people even before it was legal to use, unless you were in a research study,” Phelps said.
The psychedelic therapy program entails 150 hours of instruction and several in-person training sessions. Many students are licensed therapists, psychiatrists and physicians. Social workers, nutritionists, ordained clergy and people in other nonmedical occupations are also eligible to apply. 

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