There’s a lot of good work being done on this important question. Several new training programs have been started, but there is also research to see if there are other, more efficient models of therapy besides the traditional two facilitator model—group therapy is one; designing treatment suites where one therapist can guide several patients at once, etc. But the Psychedelic Science Funding Collaborative estimates that 100,000 facilitators will be needed in the next decade, so this is a potential bottleneck to scaling psychedelic therapy. It’s also an opportunity for philanthropy.
There’s a lot of good work being done on this important question. Several new training programs have been started, but there is also research to see if there are other, more efficient models of therapy besides the traditional two facilitator model—group therapy is one; designing treatment suites where one therapist can guide several patients at once, etc. But the Psychedelic Science Funding Collaborative estimates that 100,000 facilitators will be needed in the next decade, so this is a potential bottleneck to scaling psychedelic therapy. It’s also an opportunity for philanthropy.