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Maple Counseling

Maple Counseling Center is a low-fee nonprofit counseling center in Beverly Hills, California that co-sponsors continuing education courses on psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy for mental health professionals in partnership with the Lifespan Learning Institute. The center promotes evidence-based and emerging therapeutic modalities for the Southern California mental health community.

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Blossom’s read

Maple Counseling looks less like a standalone psychedelic school and more like a long-established, low-fee community mental health centre that has added a continuing-education strand in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. The offering appears best for licensed or pre-licensed mental health professionals who want a cautious, research-led introduction with California CE credit rather than an intensive certification pathway. Its lineage is anchored more in community training and allied clinicians than in the core psychedelic trials ecosystem, although the course roster does include named researchers and practitioners from the field.

Who Maple Counseling is for

Best suited to licensed clinicians and masters-level mental health professionals who want structured CE in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy, especially those working in California or seeking APA/CAMFT-linked credit. It may also suit trainees at Maple’s own centre who are exploring emerging modalities.

Prerequisites

The psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy course page lists eligibility for psychologists, clinical counsellors, LEP, LPCC, LCSW and MFT, but I did not find a separate formal prerequisite beyond professional audience targeting. Maple also states its broader training mission is for graduate and postgraduate students working towards licensure.

Accreditation & recognition

The course is co-sponsored by Maple Counseling and Lifespan Learning Institute, with CE credit available through Lifespan. Lifespan Learning Institute is stated on Maple pages to be approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs and LEPs, and some Maple CE pages also state APA approval for psychologists. The psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy course page says it qualifies for 13.5 CE hours.

Cost

The psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy course is listed at $447 tuition and is delivered live remotely via Zoom. Maple’s CE page says all course proceeds go to Maple Counseling’s mental health training and programmes, and that courses are free to current Maple trainees and volunteer clinical supervisors.

What you walk away with

Learners are presented with an introductory grounding in the history, research, ethics, contraindications, therapeutic models and clinical considerations around psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. The stated takeaway is solid foundational knowledge and greater confidence in answering client questions and making appropriate recommendations, rather than a certification credential.

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