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  "description": "# Professional Certificate in Psychedelic Practice\n\n**1-Year Postgraduate Programme**\n\n## Exclusive Partner Offer: 10% Off PsyEdu's Professional Certificate in Psychedelic Practice\n\nThrough our partnership with PsyEdu, we're delighted to offer our community **10% off** their **Professional Certificate in Psychedelic Practice** —a comprehensive one-year postgraduate programme for professionals looking to deepen their understanding of psychedelic research, ethics and therapeutic practice.\n\n#### Use the code **PSYSOC10** when applying and again at enrolment to claim your discount.\n\n## Quick Summary\n\n- **Duration:** 1 year (September – July)\n- **Format:** Fully online\n- **Level:** Level 6 (Degree / SCQF Level 9 equivalent)\n- **Live Teaching:** 80+ hours\n- **Total Learning:** 250+ hours\n- **Teaching Schedule:**\n  - Monthly Saturday Shared Learning Groups (10:00am–1:00pm UK)\n  - Two 90-minute weekday evening pod sessions each month\n  - Three full-day online intensives\n  - Self-directed study between sessions\n\n- **Fee:** £5,500 + £300 enrolment fee (inclusive of VAT)\n- **Financial Support:** Early Bird discounts and bursaries available\n\n[![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/07/18/15/21/21/62c0dd8a-1a8e-4e8b-96cd-8bfb18c9c7ac/d40d3574-dc9d-4dec-b287-5f71be57d81d.jpeg)](https://www.psyedu.co.uk/)\n\n# About\n\nThe **Professional Certificate in Psychedelic Practice** is a one-year postgraduate programme designed to develop the theoretical knowledge, practical skills and reflective practice needed to become a psychedelically informed practitioner.\n\nThe programme supports healthcare and helping professionals in delivering more compassionate, evidence-informed care while developing a sophisticated understanding of psychedelic medicines, preparation, integration and contemporary practice.\n\nGraduates automatically become members of the **PsyEdu Professional Network** , with many going on to work in areas including:\n\n- Clinical psychedelic trials\n- Preparation & integration therapy\n- Ketamine-assisted psychotherapy\n- Therapeutic sitting services\n- Psychedelic retreat facilitation\n\nStudents also have the opportunity to attend a legal psychedelic retreat in the Netherlands through one of PsyEdu's partner organisations.\n\n# What To Expect\n\nThroughout the year you'll explore:\n\n- The science and history of psychedelic medicines\n- Clinical applications and current research\n- Assessment, screening and preparation\n- Supporting psychedelic experiences\n- Integration practices\n- Ethics, consent and safety\n- Self-awareness and practitioner development\n- Transpersonal psychology\n- Harm reduction and community practice\n- The future of psychedelic healthcare\n\nLearning combines expert teaching, small-group discussion, reflective practice and self-directed study to build both knowledge and professional confidence.\n\n# Course Format\n\nThe programme is delivered entirely online through a blend of live teaching and independent learning.\n\n### Live Learning\n\n- Monthly Shared Learning Groups (Saturdays, 10am–1pm UK)\n- Two 90-minute evening pod sessions each month\n- Three full-day online intensive teaching days\n- Large group lectures\n- Small group reflective practice\n- Peer learning\n\n### Independent Learning\n\n- Reading\n- Recorded teaching materials\n- Reflection exercises\n- Practical assignments\n- Self-directed study\n\n# Schedule\n\n## Trimester 1 — _The Roots_\n\n### September\n\n**The What, Why and How of Psychedelics**\n\n### October\n\n**Psychedelics in Human History**\n\n### Intensive\n\n**Helical Theme: The Transpersonal**\n\n### November\n\n**Indications and Screening**\n\n### December\n\n**Launch of the Four Helical Themes**\n\n- Self Care & Self-Awareness\n- Ethics & Safety\n- Personal & Professional Development\n- The Transpersonal\n\n## Trimester 2 — _The Shoots_\n\n### January\n\n**Preparing the Soil**\n\n### February\n\n**Supporting Psychedelic Experience**\n\n### March\n\n**Boundaries, Consent & Therapeutic Touch**\n\n### Intensive\n\n**Helical Themes: Ethics & Safety / Self-Awareness & Self-Care**\n\n### April\n\n**Challenging Experiences**\n\n## Trimester 3 — _The Fruits_\n\n### May\n\n**Integrating the Psychedelic Experience**\n\n### June\n\n**Psychedelics in the Wild**  \nNature, Meditation, Recreational Use & Harm Reduction\n\n### Intensive\n\n**Helical Theme: Personal & Professional Development**\n\n### Experiential Intensive\n\n10:00am–4:30pm\n\n### July\n\n**Sowing Further Seeds: What Next (for You & the Psychedelic Field)**\n\n# Teachers\n\nThe programme is taught by an experienced multidisciplinary faculty working at the forefront of psychedelic research, psychotherapy and healthcare.\n\nCore faculty include:\n\n- Dr Duncan Still\n- Jen Wood\n- Edward Sellman\n- Dr Catriona Clark\n- Sam Bloomfield\n\nGuest faculty include:\n\n- Professor David Nutt\n- Dr David Luke\n- Daan Keiman\n\nThe teaching team combines clinical expertise, academic research and extensive practical experience supporting psychedelic practice.\n\n## Who Can Apply?\n\nThe programme is primarily designed for registered Health and Social Care professionals and complementary practitioners with at least two years' professional experience.\n\nTypical applicants include:\n\n- Psychotherapists\n- Counsellors\n- Clinical & Counselling Psychologists\n- Mental Health Nurses\n- Social Workers\n- Occupational Therapists\n- Psychiatrists\n- GPs and Doctors\n- Palliative Care Physicians\n- Complementary & Alternative Medicine practitioners (with a relevant degree, Level 4 qualification and professional experience)\n\nApplicants from other helping professions—including coaches, chaplains, probation officers and those working in pastoral or social care—may also be considered where they can demonstrate appropriate experience, knowledge of mental health and a compassionate orientation to practice. Admission is at the discretion of the PsyEdu Academic Director.\n\n![](https://r2.dandelion.events/2026/07/18/15/21/21/62c0dd8a-1a8e-4e8b-96cd-8bfb18c9c7ac/d40d3574-dc9d-4dec-b287-5f71be57d81d.jpeg)",
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