Janis Phelps

Janis Phelps, Ph.D. is the founder and director of the CIIS Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research, which conducts the first academically accredited, professional certificate training program for psychedelic-assisted therapy and research. She is contributing to the development of a national accreditation board for therapists and to methods of scaling effective training programs to meet the burgeoning need for well-trained mental health and medical professionals in the field of psychedelic medicine.

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Dr. Janis Phelps, is a full professor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), San Francisco, CA.

She is a board member of the Heffter Research Institute, which has conducted psilocybin research since the 1990s. Her recent publications focus on the competencies and training of therapists in psychedelic-assisted therapies.

She served as the Dean of Faculty at CIIS for the graduate departments in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. A licensed clinical psychologist, she has held faculty positions in the East-West Psychology graduate program (founded by Alan Watts) and clinical psychology doctoral program.

She maintains a private practice in Mill Valley, CA.

Notable Research Papers

• Developing Guidelines and Competencies for the Training of Psychedelic Therapists (Phelps, 2017)
• Training Psychedelic Therapists (Phelps, 2019)

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She has given many talks:

• Accredited Certificate Program in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies and Research at CIIS: Guidelines, Competencies and Outcomes from the Pioneering Year (Psychedelic Science Summit, 2017)
• Training the Next Generation of Psychedelic Therapists (Breaking Convention, 2019)

More media:

• Janis Phelps on training the first psychedelic therapists (ICPR, 2020)