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Reduce harm
Every decision runs through one filter first: would we send someone we love here? Verification is not a badge.
About PsyStandard
About PsyStandard
The people, purpose, and values behind the standard for psychedelic practice.
Purpose
A world where the quality of psychedelic practice isn’t a matter of luck.
Vision
The field infrastructure that transforms isolated excellence into shared transparent, verifiable standards for psychedelic practice across Europe.
Mission
We co-create a verification framework with academic institutions, organisations, and practitioners — then make verification transparent and accessible.
How verification works
Our values
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In service to people
Every standard we set, every badge we issue, every difficult call we make exists for one reason: the person on the other side deserves the best possible care — not by chance, but by design.
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Ethical and excellent
In service to those seeking help. A practitioner can be deeply ethical and still not be good at what they do.
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The urgency of a startup. The endurance of an institution
We move fast because the field needs this now while not diluting it for speed, volume, or commercial convenience. We build carefully because a standard is only worth something if it holds.
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We learn with and from each other
The standard is inherently built together. We co-create our verification frameworks with the organisations, practitioners, retreats and clinics who live this work every day.
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The standard starts with us
We don’t just write about standards; we practise them internally. We don’t just advocate for integrity; we model it in how we build, how we verify, and how we show up for the community we serve.
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The community practices the standard
PsyStandard is a living ecosystem: the practitioners, retreats, and clinics who carry the badge, the organisations that co-design the framework, and the people who found their way safely. The standard gets stronger every time it is used, challenged, and refined.
Who we are
The team
Sophie built her career in impact-tech startups until a personal experience three years ago redirected it. Since then her focus has been on enabling broad access to safe psychedelic experiences. She founded a boutique psychedelic retreat company and is training as a practitioner herself. At PsyStandard she and Max are jointly responsible for the organisation’s strategic direction and standards.
Max has worked in the psychedelic industry for over six years, across business development, fundraising, and communications — long enough to watch the field's credibility problem outpace its growth. At PsyStandard he and Sophie are jointly responsible for the organisation's strategic direction and standards.
Laurin contributes as a neuroscience and strategy advisor and psychedelic practitioner. His work connects PsyStandard’s verification and quality framework with practitioner realities, neuroscience-informed thinking, and the wider community for practitioners and the psychedelic-curious.
Ryan Khan is a communications and partnerships professional with eight years embedded across the psychedelic ecosystem, spanning for-profit, nonprofit, education, media, and drug development. As Content Lead at PsyStandard, he is responsible for translating the verification standard and the work of the team into content that reaches the practitioners, organisations, and institutions who need to know about it.
Tanya is a psychologist who came to psychedelic work two years ago, drawn by the gap between how much these experiences can matter to people and how little structure exists to protect them. At PsyStandard she builds and manages the relationships with practitioners — the working partnerships that verification depends on.
Ivan is the Product Manager and technical partner for the PsyStandard team, responsible for building and running the website, funnels, and data infrastructure. He builds with the user in mind, running experiments to improve conversion at every step and using data to guide what gets built next.
Founding Cohort
Julia Bamberg is a trauma-informed systemic and integrative psychedelic therapist and educator with a background in somatic therapy, mindfulness, and shamanic practices. Her work is rooted in the body and shaped by years of supporting emotional, personal, and spiritual transformation, first in the corporate world and later through studies in systemic therapy, somatics, integrative breathwork, and transpersonal work. She has completed extensive practitioner trainings around the world, is a certified 5-MeO-DMT facilitator, and has accompanied more than 2,000 people into altered states of consciousness. She continues to deepen her practice through diverse traditions and a PhD in Psychedelic Studies, offering ethically held, deeply present companionship that welcomes every part of experience and supports safe, embodied integration.
I'm Kathy, a UKCP accredited relational psychotherapist. My path into this work began with a decade spent as a performance artist, which taught me how much healing happens in the body and in shared ritual space long before I trained as a yoga teacher, yoga therapist and then as a Psychotherapist at The Minster Centre. I came to the psychedelic field after further training in EMDR, which opened my eyes to the possibilities of working with altered states in therapy settings. I then went on to train with Clerkenwell Health, IPT & Maps. I founded an Online Preparation and Integration Circle 2 years ago, which I'm fortunate to co-facilitate with trusted colleagues. We welcome all kinds of experience to our circle and will find a way to support whatever arrives. Nothing is too much or too little. This is a relatively new field in the Global North and I'm conscious of not running before I can walk with such powerful work. It's important to remember how little we know and to stay within trusted communities.
At The Matter, we believe that personal growth begins with greater awareness of ourselves and the choices we make. Our multiple day retreats and custom made coaching programs offer a safe and supportive environment for self-exploration, insight, and transformation. We are committed to combining deep human care with the highest standards of safety, integrity, and integration, helping people create meaningful and lasting change in their lives.
Lotte knows what it feels like to lose touch with yourself, and how beautiful it can be to find your way back. She feels deeply inspired to guide others on this journey of reconnecting with themselves. This is why she values the potential of psychedelics so deeply — their ability to support a reconnection with the body, emotions, inner wisdom, and the natural world around us. For Lotte, these experiences are not only about gaining insights, but about creating a deeper, embodied sense of connection with who we truly are.
I'm Laurin Angermeier, a psychedelic facilitator and relational practitioner based in Berlin. My path started with an MSc in Applied Neuroscience at King's College London, where I researched ketamine-assisted and psilocybin-assisted therapy for treatment-resistant depression. That research left me convinced that the real work happens in integration, in the weeks and months after an experience, so I built my practice, inLighten Berlin, around that principle: substances reveal, they don't heal. I work with individuals and couples navigating psychedelic integration, relational patterns, and nervous system regulation, drawing on somatic and trauma-informed methods alongside training from the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness, Synthesis Institute, and MAPS Zendo Project. My favourite part of the work is watching someone move from insight to embodiment, from understanding a pattern to actually living differently.
Jakobien's been supporting the psychedelic renaissance in science since 2016, and got trained as a holistic coach and trauma practitioner in the meanwhile. For her, working with psychedelic medicines is a unique opportunity to learn to embrace the whole spectrum of the human experience ever more fully. And this can bring greater harmony to all our relationships — including the relationship with ourselves, our communities and Mother Nature. Jakobien lives in Amsterdam and speaks English, Dutch and Spanish.
I am a Brazilian psychologist whose work explores the meeting point between science, spirituality, and altered states of consciousness. My practice has been shaped by experiences in healthcare, yoga, and psychedelic exploration. It emerges from the intertwining of what has been learned through training and what has been lived and felt in the body — because, before becoming a therapist, I am human. I entered this field because I believe that profound experiences, whether therapeutic, spiritual, or existential, deserve to be met with both scientific rigor and deep humanity. My favorite part of being a psychedelic therapist is witnessing the unique ways people reconnect with themselves through these processes.
Florian Lanzer is the founder of Lucid Horizons. He is an experienced, trauma-informed facilitator offering legal psilocybin guidance in the Netherlands. He works with executives, founders, creatives, athletes, couples, and other people looking for change. He is the author of several books, including High Achievers: Psychedelics and the Search for a Meaningful Life.
I'm a psychedelic facilitator supporting clients through preparation, the process itself, and integration, working online with people wherever they are. I came to this work through my own life experience, one that gradually placed me in the right situations to understand just how much depth and structure it takes to truly hold space with psychedelics, rather than treating it as something surface-level. My practice centers on Conscious Transition, which integrates Bioneuroemoción methodology with the full arc of preparation, the experience, and integration work. What I love most is creating a space deep enough that clients can finally explore themselves through a truly genuine dialogue — one without masks or performance — and that kind of honesty is what keeps me devoted to this work.
Corporate refugee, entrepreneur and mental health educator, certified entheogenic integration coach, and the founder of O!Sapiens — a next-gen mental clarity system designed for high performers and seekers navigating burnout, trauma, and complexity. After years of navigating chronic autoimmune illness and professional burnout, Vladislav developed a methodology that bridges science-backed protocols with lived experiences of high-performing individuals, helping people regulate their nervous systems, reclaim clarity, and live in deeper alignment with their values.
Anton Mormul is the founder of the Ukrainian Association for Psychedelic Research and a psychedelic practitioner with six years of experience. He has facilitated more than 300 individual and group sessions, supporting Ukrainian veterans, families of deceased defenders and people returning from war captivity. His approach brings together ACT, IFS, mindfulness, values-based work, harm reduction and psychedelic peer support. He provides preparation, session facilitation and integration for individuals and groups, working near Valencia and internationally upon request.
Maryna Mormul is a Ukrainian psychiatrist and psychedelic-assisted therapy practitioner with experience facilitating more than 100 clinical cases through the Fenix Project. She works with military personnel experiencing treatment-resistant depression and complex PTSD, as well as members of their families. Her approach combines IFS-informed preparation and integration with breathwork, mindfulness and meditation. As a psychiatrist, she can also review medication, support antidepressant tapering and prescribe treatment when clinically indicated.
Advisors
He is a neuropsychopharmacologist and UKRI Postdoctoral Fellow at Imperial College London's Centre for Psychedelic Research and Neuropsychopharmacology, and Senior Researcher at Drug Science. Working with Professor David Nutt, he studies the neurobiology of addiction and mental health, focusing on how psychedelics, including psilocybin, DMT and LSD, as well as ketamine, MDMA and cannabis, affect the brain and may treat addiction.
GZ psychologist, psychotherapist and entrepreneur with 35+ years in mental health care. Founder and director of 1nP (2003—2025), the first financially sustainable network for mental health professionals. His expertise spans governance and digital innovation, with a strong interest in psychedelic therapy and systems-oriented care, always preserving the human scale.
Prof Mathew is a senior NHS Consultant Psychiatrist, Royal Navy Surgeon Lieutenant Commander and Director at M3 Therapeutics. Trained in Interdisciplinary Psychedelic Studies, he specialises in psychedelic medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and Higher Education Academy, and a member of the Academy of Medical Educators. His work focuses on improving outcomes for people living with mental illness.
Jessika is a Brazilian psychedelic-assisted medicine facilitator, educator, and the co-founder of Women On Psychedelics (WOOP). Deeply committed to decolonization, ethics, and cultural safety, she serves as a bridge to integrate traditional wisdom, science, and Indigenous lineages into Western frameworks. As an advisor to PsyStandard, Jessika guides the platform’s approach to cultural humility and reciprocity, helping to shape verification standards rooted in genuine accountability and trauma-informed care.
Hans van Wechem is a medical doctor, psychiatrist, psychotherapist and educator with over 35 years of experience. Based in Amsterdam, he specialises in early childhood trauma and attachment disorders.
His current work focuses on psychedelic-assisted treatment and the responsible use of psychoactive compounds in mental healthcare. In 2022, he co-founded the Experiential Training Institute, where mental health professionals receive practical training in safe, ethical and informed psychedelic practice.
