Psychedelic Therapy and Advanced Specialties
Through Psychedelic Guide Training, students gain the foundational skills in Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapy and learn how to work with psychedelic cannabis and breathwork modalities in non-clinical settings, and to begin working in clinical settings and with other psychedelic medicines. These are the Psychedelic Specialities.
Psychedelic Sitters School currently offers the following four Psychedelic Specialties and Breathwork:
- Advanced Practices Psychedelic Therapy Intensive Training Retreat
- Psychedelic Therapy and Clinical Cannabis
- Ketamine-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy
- Psilocybin Mushroom Supported Personal Use
- Natural DMT Supported Personal Use
Beginning in 2025, we also started a new, allied program to provide NMHA required training for psilocybin mushroom facilitator licensure. More information about this can be found on the Licensing Program page and the website for Medicinal Mindfulness Academy.
Each specialty program continues the conversation of the prerequisites Psychedelic Guide Training and Therapeutic Presence & Trauma Informed Care through a specific medicine modality and consists of medicine specific webinars under the “All Things Psychedelic” Webinar Series with a series of practicums or weeklong intensives for experiential training. Ongoing consulting support is provided through our advanced credentialing program.
The Clinical Cannabis and Ketamine-Assisted Psychedelic Therapy Specialties are integrated into a five-day, in-person psychedelic therapy intensive retreat each Fall semester, where students receive a Cannabis-Assisted Breathwork Certificate and participate in a ketamine experiential session alongside group cannabis-assisted breathwork and practice sessions. An online option is also available and includes participation in the cannabis-assisted breathwork training only. This retreat focuses on working with these medicines in clinical settings, including clients with PTSD, and introduces students to facilitating this specialty, with daily preparation, integration, and art-based experiential processes.
- In-Person intensive: $3,500
- Virtual: $2,500
This specialty focuses on mindfulness-based, somatic trauma resolution therapies useful in clinical settings working with any of the psychedelic medicines. Students are taught somatic and mindfulness-based clinical therapeutic protocols, how to work with extreme healing experiences, and how to facilitate Cannabis-Assisted Breathwork Sessions and psycholytic cannabis and psycholytic sessions with other medicines.
This speciality teaches students how to work with both ketamine lozenges and intramuscular injections under medical supervision within a well supported, therapeutic, transpersonal session protocol for clinical and spiritual applications.
After students complete the Psychedelic Therapy Intensive, they are invited to complete a two-day practicum with preparation and integration support at the center with another peer.
This speciality provides experiential opportunities for students to safely provide psilocybin mushrooms sessions. Students learn how to navigate the new laws of Colorado that legalized supported personal use as a profession as well as practice requirements for regulated access. Students will learn about safe dosing protocols, psilocybin safety and contraindications, and proper guiding techniques.
This specialty teaches students how to work with legally obtainable, naturally derived DMT in legal, personal use support settings in Colorado.
The DMTx Program, www.dmtx.org, is a one of a kind program that explores psychedelic spaces with Extended-State DMT using targeted infusion medical technology. DMTx is an independent program in partnership with the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness.
In the Summers of 2023 and 2024, we organized DMTx4 and DMTx5, our fourth and fifth DMT psychonaut training intensive with Extended-State DMT experiences, in Boulder, Colorado. These expeditions were completed under the Natural Medicine Health Act personal use regulations and 32 intrepid DMTx journeys have since been successfully completed.