Webinar August 26th 2025 Janis Phelps: How to be an ethical psychedelic practitioner

What are the most important qualities and skills of someone aspiring to be an ethical psychedelic therapist? Next Tuesday, August 26th at 7PM UTC+3, we’ll investigate this question in a webinar lecture with a pioneer in psychedelic therapist training, psychologist Janis Phelps, PhD.

There are many important areas of being an ethical psychedelic therapist. Inner elements include humility, an abiding emphatic presence, a commitment to a life of honest self-reflection and the ability to take care of oneself and one’s needs. From the point of view of therapeutic practice and interaction, skills in maintaining a consistently safe set and setting, cultural competency and careful delivery of informed consent and consent practices are all relevant. Professional elements include professional transparency, a commitment to peer supervision and the improvement of professional institutions.

The webinar is aimed for professionals and students of psychotherapy and other clinical fields, but also for anyone interested in learning more about the aspects of ethical psychedelic therapy.

The event contains a Q&A section and the total length is 2 hours. Please note the atypical starting time for the webinar!

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About the speaker:

Janis Phelps, PhD, is a leader in the field of psychedelic therapy training as the Director of the Psychedelic Therapies and Research at the California Institute of Integral Studies Center. As the Center’s founder, Dr. Phelps developed and launched the first university accredited, post- graduate training program for psychedelic therapy and research. She has held the position of the Dean of Faculty of the six doctoral departments in the CIIS School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Her landmark 2017 publication, “Developing Guidelines and Competencies for the Training of Psychedelic Therapists”, has garnered 6,000+ reads which is a testament to the interest in training worldwide. These ideas are further developed in two book chapters and other journal publications. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Phelps is a board member of the Heffter Research Institute, which has conducted highly influential psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy research since the 1990’s. She consults internationally and presents on methods of scaling effective training programs to meet the burgeoning need for well-trained facilitators and therapists in the field of psychedelic medicine. Dr. Phelps maintains a private clinical practice in California.