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No. As a foundation, we focus on scientific research and education, not on providing therapy or support directly. Psychedelic-assisted therapy is not yet legal in the Netherlands outside of clinical trial settings, and for this reason we also cannot recommend individual psychedelic therapists.

This points to a central tension in the field: psychedelics are widely available ‘in the wild,’ yet they are not accessible in a proper therapeutic context. There are people offering guided psychedelic sessions that hint at the provision of therapy, but in most cases these are not qualified individuals, and we don’t believe it is ethical or safe to offer this in the absence of professional guidelines and standards. We are working hard to help establish those standards, and until they exist we err on the side of caution.

It is also why we created ADEPT, our training programme. When psychedelics do become available as therapeutic tools, the field will need qualified and well-trained therapists ready to work with them. We believe this is likely to happen in the coming years, though whether and when remains an open question. When it does, practitioners will need a deep understanding of working with altered states, a highly developed sense of ethics, and finely tuned competencies to do this work — and our training is designed to prepare exactly those people.