HOW TO BECOME A PSYCHEDELIC THERAPIST
Learn to work legally and skillfully with four psychedelic medicines at your own pace.
Specialties Include: Psilocybin Mushrooms, Psychedelic Cannabis, Ketamine, Natural DMT and breathwork.
Credentials available:
- Mindfulness-Based Integration Coach
- Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Guide
- Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Therapist
- Mindfulness-Based Psychedelic Specialist
Psychedelic Sitters School, the psychedelic therapy training program of the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness, has been training psychedelic guides since 2012. We started our 13th year of training guides in 2025, with our 35th cohort of students! This program has been cultivated, developed and distilled many times over, and we are excited to host this new iteration post-NMHA legalization.
Students join us from all over the world. With our in-person/virtual hybrid model, we strongly support accessibility of this work. Classes are offered in our hometown of Boulder, Colorado, and also in training pods online and across the United States, Canada, and soon in other pods in Europe and Israel.
We teach our students to skillfully and ethically work with four psychedelic medicines and breathwork in legal settings: psilocybin mushrooms, psychedelic cannabis, ketamine and natural N,N-DMT.
Psychedelic Sitters School is a vocational program. We not only teach our students the skills of guiding, but also provide direct experiences in guiding, with apprenticeships and employment opportunities available at our center. We also teach our students how to start their psychedelic private practice and step out of the old paradigm completely.
To support accessibility and inclusion, we have a robust scholarship program, as well as new financial support services that allow us to offer 6-12 month payment plans.
We have training pathways for both newer practitioners who are transitioning into psychedelic guiding, as well as for experienced or licensed mental health and what is now known as “legacy practitioners” (cultural practitioners, religious practitioners and experienced underground practitioners) who wish to bring psychedelics into their practice in a legal setting.
Please review the program and set up a discovery call at any time to learn more.
Learn more by visiting the subpages of the Training Program
Heal and transform humanity and our shared ecology through the education, guiding and integration of safe, legal psychedelic practices.
Psychedelic Guide Training – Online and In-Person Training – Hybrid Model
Students can attend Psychedelic Guide Training either in person in our Boulder, Colorado center, a number of community “pods” around the United States and Canada, or online from the comfort of your own home via our hybrid training model.
The hybrid model allows us to host live virtual training via Zoom simultaneously with in-person cohorts. For this reason, students are able to choose whether they would like to attend all foundational training entirely online if in accordance with laws of their location
Choosing the In-Person or Online Intensive
Pros of in-person training:
- NEW: this course now includes an optional psilocybin mushroom session for all in-person students – additional screening is required.
- This program is cannabis based, and Colorado has great cannabis. Colorado was the first state to legalize cannabis in the USA and since has mastered the art of growing high THC cannabis. If psychedelics are not yet legal in your area, you can travel to the mile high state and try it out for yourself. The in-person training includes an optional trip to our recommended dispensary to stock up Sunday evening before training begins. It’s a great opportunity to connect with the cohort and meet our Cannabis Consultant.
- If one of your priorities is growing your psychedelic network and forming lifelong friendships, then spending five days in community with your cohort is a great opportunity.
- In-person work is classic and essential to cultivating a practice. Dive into the details of what it means to create a sacred container and hold space for your clients.
- Tuition includes lunches and dinners so you will be well fed and nourished during your experience.
Pros of online training:
- If cannabis is accessible where you live, then you can easily learn to make a psychedelic cannabis blend with the products already available to you.
- Virtual training and psychedelic experiences maintain the depth of psychedelic experience without leaving the comfort of your own home. We have streamlined our virtual training to ensure that you feel safe and supported no matter what arises. All you need is the proper hardware and a stable internet connection.
- Guiding online sessions for your friends and clients is now a common modality in the post-Covid pandemic world. Learn all of the tech skills that will help you become a confident virtual guide.
- Online training is our most affordable option. Students don’t pay a space use fee or for travel expenses. It is easier to take a week off of work without the travel, and this may be crucial for some of our students, particularly our students with children or other dependents.
- Since we can’t offer psilocybin mushrooms online, Wednesday is a free day for self care, or solo practice day.