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We are building the field infrastructure that turns isolated excellence
into transparent, verifiable standards for psychedelic practice.

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Why the standard matters

Excellent psychedelic practice is complex. It draws on ethics, competence, safety, setting, preparation, integration, legal awareness, and the ability to work responsibly with people in vulnerable moments.

PsyStandard turns that complexity into a living verification framework —
co-designed with academic institutions, harm reduction experts, and
practitioner communities, and tested in practice.

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Two parts, one system. The standard defines good practice. Membership
is how practitioners meet it and uphold it

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Verified practitioners join a professional community with named supervision, continuing development, peer accountability, and a code of ethics.

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Quotes from advisors

Rayyan Zafar

Rayyan Zafar

Advisor

Being involved in clinical research with psychedelics, it is clear how important it is to develop rigorous, ethical and safe standards for those interested in working with these powerful compounds. PsyStandard provides a valuable framework for ensuring this work is conducted to the highest scientific standards, supporting safe and beneficial outcomes for all involved.

Gerard van Kesteren

Gerard van Kesteren

Advisor

Through my work in mental health care, I’ve come to see how essential credible and recognisable standards are — particularly for start-ups in emerging fields. PsyStandard is uniquely placed to create that difference for all stakeholders and it is great to contribute to this.

Anup Mathew

Anup Mathew

Advisor

It is an absolute privilege to join PsyStandard and to work alongside leading experts on raising standards and accountability across this field — spanning prescribers, pharmacies, therapists, and the wider community of practitioners. I’m excited to be part of building something the field can trust.

From the field

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From pilgrimage to re-rooting: What does integration actually ask of us?

The World Ayahuasca Forum (WAF) took place in Girona, Catalonia, from 11–13 September 2026, bringing together Indigenous wisdom keepers, ayahuasqueros, padrinhos, medicine makers, curanderos, pajés, advocates, conservationists, researchers, practitioners, artists, investors, policymakers, lawyers, and many others working across the global ayahuasca field. “Ayahuasca” is itself an umbrella term and only one name among many for […]

Written Merryn Spence

What is psychedelic intervision, and why do psychedelic practitioners need it?

In a field where most practitioners work alone, unregulated, and with clients who are in a substantial and suggestible altered state of consciousness, psychedelic intervision, or ongoing peer-to-peer reflection, is closer to essential infrastructure than a simple nice-to-have. Ultimately, however sound one’s own therapeutic perspective, framework or positionality, neither you nor your clients may be […]

Written Ryan Khan

Neurodivergent clients and psychedelics: what competent support actually requires

Neurodivergent people are already in psychedelic spaces. Diagnosed or not, disclosed or not – they are already showing up to ceremonies, clinical trials, and coaching sessions. The question is whether the space is ready for them. Guest contributions from Dr. WaiFung Tsang and Nadia Violet Erlam Foreword By Dr. WaiFung Tsang Neurodiversity should not be […]

Written Laurin Angermeier

What clinical studies can, and can’t, tell us about psychedelic practice: Therapeutic misconception, clinical equipoise and why promising results still need real-world standards

I spend much of my working life inside psychedelic clinical studies. From the outside, a psychedelic study may look, at this point in time, given the 200+ clinical trials globally and an even greater number of experimental medicine studies, a relatively simple and easy thing to deliver and do. A person receives a drug, has […]

Written Rayyan Zafar

The relational container: Structuring couples work with psychedelic support

The couple in the room More couples are seeking psychedelic support together, and they arrive through different doors. Some come after one partner’s individual journey shifted something between them. Some arrive carrying a specific wound, a break in trust and agreement, a loss, and ask for repair before anything else. Many begin with conflict work […]

Written Laurin Angermeier

Beyond the drug: Lessons from therapists on what shapes outcomes in psychedelic-assisted therapy

FOREWORD Psychedelic research is often framed around a simple question: do these treatments work? Over the past decade, that question has generated an exciting body of research. But as psychedelic-assisted therapy moves closer to clinical implementation, I think another question is becoming just as important: what actually determines whether someone benefits? In my PhD research, […]

Written Grace Viljoen

Honouring the mystical: How to integrate entities and mystical-type experiences

Some of the most important experiences a client brings back are the ones no one taught their practitioner how to hold. A being that seemed to communicate, sense of having touched something sacred, the conviction that they briefly saw how everything connects. In almost every conversation we have about experiences like these, the same thing comes up: the person was left alone with the part that mattered most.

Written Laurin Angermeier

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