Psychedelic Practitioner Foundations Programme

Course Description

The Foundations Course in Psychedelics and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy provides healthcare professionals with an introduction to the field of psychedelic treatments within regulated healthcare settings. The course, consisting of 30 hours of self-directed, asynchronous lectures and interviews taken over two months, covers a wide range of topics including common mental disorders, evidence and mechanisms of psychotherapy, an introduction to psychedelics, phenomenology and mechanisms, limitations of psychedelic therapy, the Clerkenwell approach, perspectives of patients and groups, risks and harms, and ethics and legal implications.

The course is designed to equip healthcare professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to develop interventions or systems of interventions using psychedelic treatments. The curriculum is grounded in first principles and scientific evidence of mental ill-health and therapy, emphasizing the importance of common factors and therapist attributes, as well as potential risks, harms, and abuses in psychedelic treatments. Lectures and interviews are delivered by a mix of Clerkenwell Health experts and world-class researchers and therapists from renowned institutions such as the University of Manchester, Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Greenwich.