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- Strong match: 2 shared learner audiences
- Also shares: professional level
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Pesi
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PESI is a leading continuing education provider for mental health professionals, offering accredited online courses on psychedelic-assisted therapies including MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, and microdosing, covering clinical frameworks, ethics, harm reduction, and client communication for therapists, counselors, nurses, and psychiatrists. Their trainings help clinicians build competence in this rapidly emerging therapeutic field and earn CE credits required for licensure.
ProfessionalOnlineMid costContinuing educationHarm reductionIntegration trainingPsychedelic-assisted therapy trainingLicensed cliniciansOther
Blossom’s read
PESI sits firmly in the mainstream continuing-education end of the psychedelic training landscape rather than the retreat, facilitation, or underground lineage. It appears best for licensed clinicians who want practical, research-literate orientation to psychedelic-assisted work, harm reduction, and client conversations, plus CE credit rather than a standalone psychotherapy credential. The faculty mix includes well-known figures such as Janis Phelps, Bessel van der Kolk, Gabor Maté, Richard Schwartz, and Michael Mithoefer, which gives the catalogue real name-recognition, though the offer is broad and commercially packaged rather than a single coherent training pathway.
Who Pesi is for
Best suited to licensed mental health and healthcare professionals who want an accessible, CE-bearing introduction or update on psychedelic-assisted therapy, integration, harm reduction, and related clinical skills. It also seems useful for clinicians who are not yet practising in psychedelic therapy but need to understand how to discuss these substances with clients.
Prerequisites
No specific entry prerequisites were clearly stated on the psychedelic topic pages. The audience is consistently framed as mental health, rehab, and healthcare professionals, including counsellors, therapists, nurses, nurse practitioners, and psychiatrists.
Accreditation & recognition
PESI states it is an accredited continuing education provider and offers CE/CEU for over 40 licences. The psychedelic courses/pages reviewed advertise CE hours, with examples including up to 10.0 CE hours, up to 8.75 CE hours, up to 15.5 CE hours, and up to 16.25 CE hours depending on the course. PESI pages also note approvals for various professions and boards, including nursing, counselling, social work, and ACME-related continuing medical education, with specific approval varying by course and profession.
Cost
Pricing varies by course and is often shown as a discounted sale price versus a higher standard value. Examples reviewed include $199.99 for an online course, $64.99 or $34.99 for digital seminars, and one course page listing a value of $1,379.89 with a sale price of $199.99. The pages suggest CE hours are included in the tuition for some offerings, while credit details and certificate fees may vary by profession and course.
What you walk away with
Learners are positioned to gain practical competence in discussing psychedelics with clients, understanding the clinical research and therapeutic frameworks, and applying ideas such as trauma-informed integration, ethics, harm reduction, and communication around substances like MDMA, psilocybin, ketamine, microdosing, and ayahuasca. The main tangible outcome is continuing education credit rather than a dedicated licensure in psychedelic therapy, although some courses reference certification-style programmes or specialist training within PESI’s broader catalogue.
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- Strong match: 4 shared modalities
- Strong match: 2 shared learner audiences
- Also shares: professional level
- Also shares: online delivery
- Strong match: 4 shared modalities
- Strong match: 2 shared learner audiences
- Also shares: professional level
- Also shares: online delivery
- Strong match: 2 shared modalities
- Strong match: 2 shared learner audiences
- Also shares: professional level
- Also shares: online delivery
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