OUR THREE BEST TRAININGS OF THE LAST 12 MONTHS
What to Do When the Law Is Unclear, the Session Goes Sideways, and the Insights Fade
Essential watch for every practitioner in this field: three trainings to build confidence on the legal, relational, and integrative foundations of a psychedelic practice. Each one is a window into the work we teach in full inside the Psychedelic Practitioner Certification.
Psychedelic Coaching & The Law: A Guide to Ethical Practice
The field is growing faster than the rules that define it, and that uncertainty keeps good practitioners quiet, small, and vague about what they actually do. Paul sits down with Barine Majewska, counsel at Vicente LLP and one of the few attorneys in the country working full time on psychedelics, to replace the guesswork with clear answers.
What Paul and Barine covered:
- Where psilocybin, ketamine, and MDMA actually stand today, and where coaching fits inside that picture
- The line between coaching, facilitation, and therapy, and why blurring it is the single biggest risk to your practice
- How to describe your work on your website and social media without creating exposure for yourself
Navigating the Storm: Supporting Clients Through Challenging Experiences
Not every journey looks like the ones on Netflix. When fear surfaces instead of bliss and resistance shows up instead of surrender, your client does not need a script, they need you to stay grounded, and this training shows you how.
- What Paul covered:
The early signs a client is moving into difficult territory, while you can still meet it - When to intervene and when to trust the unfolding, and how to tell the difference in the moment
- How to regulate yourself under pressure so you can be the anchor during intense emotional release
Mastering Psychedelic Integration: From Insight to Action
The experience is not the transformation. What a client does in the weeks that follow is, and that is exactly where most practitioners are least equipped to help.
- What Paul covered:
The critical learning period after a journey, and why it decides whether change holds - The “Oh Wow vs. Now What” framework for converting insight into concrete behavior change
- How microdosing supports long-term integration and sustained growth
Interested in Our Psychedelic Practitioner Certification Program?
Become a Certified Psychedelic Practitioner: Elevate Your Practice and Transform Lives
THE PROGRAM STARTS ON AUGUST 3
Help your clients navigate deep healing and lasting growth. Whether you’re an established coach or transitioning to a purpose-driven career, our Practitioner Certification Program provides the expertise to stand out in the rapidly evolving field of psychedelic facilitation and integration.
SKILL LEVEL
For practitioners with foundational coaching experience
PROGRAM LENGTH
6-month comprehensive curriculum
PROGRAM RATING
Exceptional 9.1 Net Promoter Score
PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE
50 hours of supervised practicum
IMMERSIVE LEARNING
Week-long intensive retreat in Costa Rica included
Program Structure
Program Structure
Bi-Weekly, 2-Hour Teaching Sessions with Paul F. Austin, Third Wave & Psychedelic Coaching Institute Founder
and Lead Trainer
Every other week, you get a deep dive into a core topic, followed by a Q&A with Paul F. Austin. Informed by Third Wave’s 5-pillar psychedelic coaching framework, you will get comprehensive training on topics ranging from safety and ethics, working with different medicines, and types of psychedelic coaching to outcomes of psychedelic work and how to ground breakthroughs into lasting change.
Workshops with World-Class Guest Teachers
Over the course of the program, you will get 12 in-depth workshops with our guest experts. Each of our teachers is a leader in their field. Some of the topics we will cover include: high performance coaching methods; using plant medicines for both healing and growth; psychedelics and biohacking; functional medicine and the role of diet and nutrition in achieving personal outcomes; how microdosing can help spur creativity and flow; transforming from the inside out; psychedelics for empathy, communication, and teambuilding; entrepreneurship and psychedelics; complementary practices; holistic health; and more.
Bi-Weekly 2-Hour Pod Sessions
During these sessions, you will meet with your pre-assigned pod group and a designated facilitator to help integrate the teaching material through reflection, discussion, and application. Expect to form close relationships with your group. These sessions may include guided group conversations, breathwork, and other facilitated practices to support your growth.
Ground Theory Into Practice Through Weekly Assignments
During these sessions, you will meet with your pre-assigned pod group and a designated facilitator to help integrate the teaching material through reflection, discussion, and application. Expect to form close relationships with your group. These sessions may include guided group conversations, breathwork, and other facilitated practices to support your growth.
Focus on Synergies Between Plant Medicines and Support Methodologies
Explore how to integrate plant medicines with tools such as breathwork, cold therapy, meditation, neurofeedback, and more
PCI Approved Psychedelic Integration Methodologies
The Psychedelic Coaching Institute strives to stay on the cutting edge of psychedelic research and findings. Our ever-evolving integration methods are a culmination of our team’s expertise, data, and personal experiences.
During this program, you will be trained in Paul’s signature psychedelic integration methods that he typically only teaches to partners at leading intensives and clinics.
During this program, you will be trained in Paul’s signature psychedelic integration methods that he typically only teaches to partners at leading intensives and clinics.
Proven Frameworks for Both Microdosing & Macrodose Experiences
Discover how to design custom protocols with microdosing and macrodosing specific to your clients’ goals.
50-Hour Practicum
Discover how to design custom protocols with microdosing and macrodosing specific to your clients’ goals.
Intensive in Costa Rica
Part of the Practitioner Certification Program, our Intensive is an immensely rare opportunity to apply what you’re learning, go deeper, and connect with your community of fellow practitioners. Under expert supervision and guidance, you’ll directly experience mushrooms to start walking the walk of psychedelic preparation, ceremony, and integration.
Many of our graduates say that the Intensive was their favorite and most memorable part of the full training program. You’ll leave with breakthroughs, new wisdom, and deepened connections – as well as
a sense of internal rejuvenation and alignment – to bring forward into your work as a certified psychedelic practitioner.
Our 6-day Intensive includes:
Many of our graduates say that the Intensive was their favorite and most memorable part of the full training program. You’ll leave with breakthroughs, new wisdom, and deepened connections – as well as
a sense of internal rejuvenation and alignment – to bring forward into your work as a certified psychedelic practitioner.
Our 6-day Intensive includes:
LOCATION: BRAVE EARTH - COSTA RICA (LA FORTUNA/ARENAL)
DATE: NOVEMBER 4-9, 2026
$7,500
INCLUDED WITH CERTIFICATION TUITION
Intensive in Costa Rica
Part of the Practitioner Certification Program, our Intensive is an immensely rare opportunity to apply what you’re learning, go deeper, and connect with your community of fellow practitioners. Under expert supervision and guidance, you’ll directly experience mushrooms to start walking the walk of psychedelic preparation, ceremony, and integration.
Many of our graduates say that the Intensive was their favorite and most memorable part of the full training program. You’ll leave with breakthroughs, new wisdom, and deepened connections – as well as a sense of internal rejuvenation and alignment – to bring forward into your work as a certified psychedelic practitioner.
Our 6-day Intensive includes:
Many of our graduates say that the Intensive was their favorite and most memorable part of the full training program. You’ll leave with breakthroughs, new wisdom, and deepened connections – as well as a sense of internal rejuvenation and alignment – to bring forward into your work as a certified psychedelic practitioner.
Our 6-day Intensive includes:
Personal experience with medicine (optional)
Daily yoga and meditation
Temazcal (sweat lodge) ceremony
Hands-on leadership training
Team building
In-person coaching
Fully catered meals
The entire intensive is included in your program tuition.
We will also provide an option to upgrade your room
accommodations on a first-come, first-served basis.
LOCATION: BRAVE EARTH - COSTA RICA (LA FORTUNA/ARENAL)
DATE: NOVEMBER 4-9, 2026
$7,500
INCLUDED WITH CERTIFICATION TUITION
What Our Graduates Are Saying
A Transformative Experience That Changes Lives
This experience changed the trajectory of my life. I made life-long friendships, found community and support both personally and professionally, received a first-class education in the field of psychedelics and found ways to face some of the most challenging and beautiful aspects of being alive. I can’t recommend this training enough. Go for it!
- Dylan K.
Consciousness-Shifting
Learning
The experiential learning, co-creation and relationship building, and the mastery and generosity of the instructors in this program are both awe inspiring and consciousness shifting.
- Jodi B.
Beyond Expectations: A Journey of Personal Transformation
This program was so much more than I expected.
I learned a lot and feel very well-equipped to bring psychedelics into my work with clients. What surprised me was my own journey along the way. This was a magical and hugely transformative period for my life.
- Dave S.
Life-Changing Skills for Coaching and Beyond
Participating in this program was one of the best choices I have made in my life. Not only have
I been well trained in psychedelic skills that I can use to coach and teach my clients, this program transformed my life and my personal relationships in deeply profound ways. Applying these skills to my career as a massage therapist a career path has opened up. I am excited for my future as both a psychedelic coach and a psychedelic bodyworker.
- Erik H.
A Unique Journey of Knowledge and Community
The wealth of knowledge and experience the program facilitators and lecturers contribute to this curriculum cannot be understated. That, coupled with the sense of community, accountability, and kinship formed with the other students make this a truly unique, transformative, and life affirming experience for anyone interested in or involved with the psychedelic support community.
- Daniel B.
Life-Changing Journey of Personal and Professional Growth
PCI gave me enough depth and freedom to explore the world of integration coaching in a way that resonated withme. With a wide variety of approaches and knowledge from guest lecturers, it felt less like a ‘step-by-step’ approach and more of a guided intuitive program with enough structure and guardrails to help me forge my own path. Integration sessions were my favorite, leaving me with peer connections and support that will last a lifetime.
- Alexa J.
Meet Our Faculty
We're Here to Guide You on Your Journey
Ready to discuss your professional path in psychedelic coaching?
Joseph Anew, our Career Advisor and program graduate, offers
personalized consultations to help you:
Ready to discuss your professional path in psychedelic coaching?
Joseph Anew, our Career Advisor and program graduate, offers
personalized consultations to help you:
Joseph Anew, our Career Advisor and program graduate, offers
personalized consultations to help you:
- Determine if psychedelic coaching aligns with your career vision
- Explore whether our certification is the optimal path for your goals
- Assess if this is the right moment for you to begin this journey
- Receive candid guidance on qualification and preparation
This no-pressure conversation is designed to provide clarity and direction,
whether you’re ready to apply now or considering options for the future.
whether you’re ready to apply now or considering options for the future.
This no-pressure conversation is designed to provide clarity and direction,
whether you’re ready to apply now or considering options for the future.
Joseph Anew
Career Advisor
