A nine-month professional certificate from UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics, designed for advanced professionals preparing to support psychedelic care. The program included interdisciplinary instruction, in-person modules, online small-group meetings, and an optional practicum for some licensure pat
Berkeley University
English
40 hours
The Berkeley Psychedelic Facilitation Certificate Program ran from 2022 to 2025 through UC Berkeley’s Center for the Science of Psychedelics in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley School of Education. The page states that it preserves the program’s history and offerings and is no longer actively updated, effective July 1, 2025. The program was designed for advanced religious, spiritual care, and healthcare professionals, including people working in chaplaincy, ministry, medicine, nursing, mental health counseling, psychology, psychiatry, and social work, as well as those trained in traditional plant medicine lineages. It also welcomed applicants from historically underserved communities and those committed to serving them, with financial assistance available to qualified applicants. The curriculum was a nine-month, 200-hour professional preparation program. It included 160 instructional hours delivered mostly in person across seven three- to five-day modules, plus monthly online small-group meetings and JEDI panels. An optional 40-hour hands-on practicum could be completed for some licensure pathways in Oregon or Colorado.
Advanced religious, spiritual care, and healthcare professionals, including chaplains, ministers, clinicians, counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and practitioners from traditional plant medicine lineages with community support.
Designed for advanced professionals in chaplaincy, ministry, medicine, nursing, mental health counseling, psychology, psychiatry, and social work, or those trained in traditional plant medicine lineages with community support.
UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics (BCSP), founded in September 2020 by a multidisciplinary faculty group including neuroscientist Michael Silver and author Michael Pollan, conducting psilocybin research into cognition, perception, emotion, and their neural bases in the human brain. BCSP's four pillars of basic science, journalism, culture, and community have established it as a leading interdisciplinary hub for psychedelic research and public engagement, producing The Microdose newsletter and a global clinical trials map.
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