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Dec. 26, 2022 – 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, she said.
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.
