Professional Certificate in Psychedelic Practice
Numinous Ways is proud to partner with PsyEDU, a leading organisation offering a comprehensive certificate programme in psychedelic practice. This Programme equips mental health professionals with the necessary knowledge, skills, and ethical framework to facilitate safe and transformative psychedelic experiences.
As part of our commitment to supporting the growth and development of the psychedelic community, Numinous Ways provides practical placements for students enrolled in the PsyEDU certificate programme. These placements offer valuable hands-on experience and the opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge gained in the programme in a real-world setting.
During the practical placements, students will have the chance to work closely with our experienced team of facilitators and therapists. They will have the opportunity to observe and assist in various aspects of our retreats, including preparation, integration, and harm reduction practices. This immersive experience allows PsyEDU students to witness the profound impact of psychedelic-assisted experiences and gain invaluable insights into everything that goes into the facilitation process behind the scenes.
By offering practical placements, Numinous Ways aims to create a supportive learning environment and contribute to the professional development of aspiring psychedelic facilitators. We also believe in the importance of mentorship in order to cultivate competent and compassionate practitioners who are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of care and safety in the psychedelic field.
If you are enrolled in the PsyEDU certificate programme and are seeking a meaningful and immersive practical placement, we invite you to explore the opportunities available at Numinous Ways. Join us on this journey of personal and professional growth as we work together to create a more conscious and transformative future with psychedelics. For further information, please feel free to reach out to our team or consult with your course tutors.
Drug Science Partnership
PsyEdu is formally endorsed by Drug Science—the UK’s leading independent scientific body on drugs and drug policy—for excellence in psychedelic therapy education. This recognition follows an in-depth audit of the Professional Certificate in Psychedelic Practice, confirming its alignment with current scientific understanding and ethical best practice.
Drug Science identified the training as a strong model for safe, evidence-based work with altered states of consciousness, highlighting its focus on clinical integrity, therapeutic safety, and practitioner responsibility.
The endorsement affirms PsyEdu’s role in shaping a rigorous and accountable approach to psychedelic-assisted therapy—grounded in science, delivered with care.
“Our review confirms that PsyEdu’s educational content reflects the most up-to-date understanding of how psychedelics interact with the body and mind. Their training emphasises safe, supportive, and professionally guided care for individuals in altered states of consciousness—a critical component in the responsible application of psychedelic-assisted therapies.”
The Truth About Drugs
Drug Science was founded in 2010 by Professor David Nutt, following his removal as Chair of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. It remains the UK’s only fully independent, science-led charity focused on drugs.
Free from political or commercial influence, Drug Science builds a robust evidence base to support sensible, effective drug policy. Its work empowers the public, media, and policymakers with the knowledge and tools needed to drive informed, positive change.
Bringing together leading experts across diverse fields, Drug Science conducts pioneering research into the effects and harms of drugs—placing scientific integrity at the heart of drug education and reform.
Quality Assurance Recognition
PsyEdu is an approved centre with Crossfields Institute (CFI), an awarding organisation known for its integrative approach and high educational standards. This approval confirms PsyEdu’s role in delivering the CFI Quality Mark programme—an endorsement of educational integrity, learner wellbeing, and best practice.
As a CFI Approved Centre, PsyEdu operates under ongoing review to ensure compliance with rigorous quality assurance requirements. The learning environment is designed to support fairness, depth, and clarity, led by qualified and experienced facilitators.
Successful completion of a Quality Mark programme results in a CFI-endorsed certificate, reflecting both the learner’s achievement and the standard of the programme.
- Psychedelic Health Professionals Network (PHP Network) initially began as an informal collective of health professionals, all interested in developing safe and legal working practice with psychedelics. It has now formed into two separate organisations – PsyEDU and PHP Network. PsyEDU collaborate with Numinous Ways who provide legal psychedelic retreats.
- PsyEDU incorporated as an organisation to deliver psychedelic education into medical schools, to professional bodies and to the lay public.
- The Professional Certificate in Psychedelic Practice is the culmination of two years of work, designing and delivering educational content to educate psychedelic practitioners.
- A one-year postgraduate educational programme, running from September – July
- Designed for those already working in professional practice
- Delivered online, the majority of live teaching takes place at weekends, on the first Saturday morning of the month.
- You will also meet online every two weeks in small learning pods – for deeper exploration of the module content and to begin to put knowledge into practice
- One full-day intensive to take place towards the beginning of each Trimester
- This course will be delivered by the Psychedelic Health Professionals’ Education team
- We are all facilitators with experience of working on PHP retreats, supporting people undergoing psilocybin journeys
- Several of us also work legally with, or adjacent to, psychedelics in the form of clinical research, psychedelic preparation and integration
- Guest speakers will be teaching on our intensive days:
- Professor David Nutt
- Dr Ashley Murphy-Beiner
- Dr David Luke
- We are also hoping to be joined by some notable contributors from the psychedelic field
- For more info on the course tutors, click here.
- Trimester 1 – The Roots
Module 1 – September – An Introduction to Psychedelics
Module 2 – October – Psychedelics in Human History
Module 3 – November – Indications and Screening
Module 4 – December – Launching the Helical Themes for the course: Self-Care, Personal Development, The Transpersonal’,
- Trimester 2 – The Shoots
Module 5 – January – Preparing the Soil
Module 6 – February – Supporting a Psychedelic Experience
Module 7 – March – Boundaries, Consent, and Therapeutic Touch
Module 8 – April – Challenging Experiences
- Trimester 3 – The Fruits
Module 9 – May – Integrating the Psychedelic Experience
Module 10 – June – Psychedelics in Other Settings (nature, meditation, VR, recreational use, and
harm reduction)
Module 11 – July – Sowing Further Seeds…
- Helical themes
These important areas will weave throughout the course, and will be a focus of our intensive days:
- Self-care
- Personal development
- The transpersonal experience
- Ethics and safety
Health and social care professionals who are registered (or registrable) with a regulatory body, with at least two years of experience.
This programme is suitable for:
- psychotherapists, counsellors, counselling psychologists
- mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists
- psychiatrists, palliative care doctors, GPs or other doctors with an interest in mental health
- complementary and alternative medicine practitioners (with a university degree and at least a Level 4 qualification in their CAM discipline)
- We believe practical experience is important for anyone who wishes to sit for another person undertaking a psychedelic journey… we do not however mandate that you do this with us
- PsyEDU will be working closely with Numinous Ways to be able to offer you the chance to incorporate legal practical experience into your learning journey
- We also hope to partner with other organisations in the field who provide excellent psychedelic retreats… watch this space!
- We will support you to work towards the following model, which is what we followed in our own training journey as facilitators:
- Level 1 (retreat) experience – a chance to explore your inner mindscape under the influence of a psychedelic medicine in a safe, supportive, caring, and professional setting
- Level 2 (retreat) experience – start to hold space for peers undergoing a psychedelic journey… with trained PsyEDU facilitators present and supervising throughout
We hope to be able to offer closed retreats, solely for our learners – this will depend on numbers and interest.
- The psychedelic field is a new and evolving field. Some of the areas in which our own facilitators have gone on to work are:
- Clinical psychedelic trials
- Preparation and integration therapy
- Facilitating psychedelic retreats (with PHP Retreats and other organisations)
- Therapeutic sitting services (in the Netherlands)
- £5,500 (VAT inclusive) if paying up front, plus £300 enrolment fee
- If paying in instalments, more information provided when applying
- Some small bursaries available… please enquire when applying
