Community Standards

Do no harm.

THE PSYCHABLE COVENANT

A Standard for the Trust Layer of Psychedelic Care

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The psychedelic field is opening. More people will seek this work in the next ten years than have sought it in the last fifty. The quality of what they find will determine whether this opening becomes a healing or a harm.

Psychable exists to be the trust layer for this field. To hold a standard that clients can trust, practitioners can stand behind, and the field can build upon.

The psychedelic field is ready for clear standards. Clients deserve to know who they are choosing and what they are choosing. Practitioners deserve a standard worth standing behind.

This Covenant is a commitment to service, to lineage, and to the client’s sovereign healing above the practitioner’s own preferences or gain.

This Covenant is that standard.

The Five Commitments

1. Truth in Practice

I am transparent with clients about who I am, what I do, what my training is, what my legal framework is, and what I cannot do. I put this in writing before the work begins. Clients working with me know exactly what they are choosing, who they are choosing, and what framework they are choosing.

2. No Harm, No Exploitation

I hold clear lines that protect the client at all times. I do not enter sexual, romantic, or financial dual relationships with clients. I do not operate outside my scope of practice. I understand and respect the body, contraindications, medication interactions, and physiological risk, and I do not proceed when the body is telling me not to. I refer out when clients need care beyond my training. I have a protocol for crisis, and I follow it without hesitation.

3. Integration is Part of the Work

I do not offer one-and-done ceremonies or medicine sessions. Every client I work with receives preparation before and integration after. The container I hold extends beyond the experience itself, into the days and weeks where the real healing happens. I believe, and practice as if, the medicine without the container is not enough.

4. Lineage is Honored

I remember that I am not the origin of this work. I am a current steward of something ancient, something much bigger than me. When I work with medicines and practices that come from specific traditions, I name those traditions and the communities they come from. I do not appropriate what has not been transmitted to me. I hold reverence as a constant posture, whether or not it is explicitly spoken in a given moment.

5. I Am Accountable

I am part of a peer community. I welcome feedback, review, and the kind of accountability that only other practitioners in this work can offer. I know that if I violate this Covenant, Psychable may ask me to leave the network. I accept that the integrity of the whole depends on each of us holding this standard honestly. I continue to do my own work: therapy, peer support, spiritual practice, medicine work when appropriate. The quality of my presence depends on the quality of my own tending. I am open to participating in outcome measurement and research that advances the field, when such work can be done ethically and with client consent.

What This Covenant Governs

Every practitioner who signs this Covenant and is accepted into the Psychable network is designated as Psychable Verified.

There is one tier. There is no hierarchy among the legal or cultural frameworks within which practitioners operate. Each practitioner’s training, credentials, and legal framework are stated publicly and transparently in their Psychable profile. Clients see the full picture and choose the framework they want to engage with.

Psychable does not rank the legitimacy of state licensure above lineage, or lineage above religious framework, or religious framework above state-regulated programs. Psychable requires that every practitioner operate within a clear framework, be transparent about what it is, and hold to the Five Commitments regardless.

How We Verify

Every practitioner joining the Psychable network completes the following:

Application with credentials, training history, legal framework, modalities, lineages honored, references.
Documentation review. Verification of stated credentials, insurance where applicable, and legal framework documentation. Psychable uses AI-assisted review to handle routine work and human review for edge cases and ethical judgments.
A conversation with Psychable. A 30-minute video conversation with a member of the Psychable verification team. This is how we read whether a practitioner is truly aligned with the Covenant beyond paperwork.
Elder or Council review when applicable. For practitioners working within specific Indigenous lineage or religious traditions, an additional review with a Psychable Council member or designated elder from the relevant tradition. The purpose is mutual recognition, not gatekeeping.
Signing the Covenant. The practitioner signs this Covenant, the Psychable Code of Conduct, and the Psychable Collaboration Pledge.
Framework onboarding. Completion of Psychable’s practitioner orientation, covering the 12 Foundational Principles, the integration methodology, the Session Standard, and the lineage module.

Verification is renewed annually. Credentials and legal framework status are re-checked. Continuing education in the practitioner’s area of work is expected, though specific hour requirements are not imposed in this version of the Covenant.

What Happens When the Covenant is Violated

This Covenant is enforced, not decorative.

Clients and peers may submit complaints through a clear, confidential process on psychable.com. Every complaint is reviewed by Psychable’s verification team. Where appropriate, complaints are reviewed with Council members for additional context and wisdom.

Responses to violation range from direct conversation, to required additional training, to suspension from the network, to full removal. Violations involving sexual exploitation, financial exploitation of vulnerable clients, or intentional harm result in immediate removal without probation.

Removed practitioners may not represent themselves as Psychable Verified. Their removal of verification is noted in Psychable’s records. To uphold transparently, the practitioner’s listing may not be removed nor will any negative reviews.

Psychable is committed to due process.

What This Covenant Does Not Do

This Covenant does not:

Claim to be the only legitimate framework for practice in this field
Replace state licensure, religious ordination, lineage transmission, or other credentialing frameworks
Guarantee client outcomes
Imply that practitioners outside this network are illegitimate
Prevent practitioners from being part of other networks, communities, or frameworks

This Covenant simply says: practitioners who sign it and hold to it are the ones Psychable stands behind.

What This Covenant Is

This Covenant is a living document. It will evolve as the field evolves, as our understanding deepens, and as we learn from the real work of holding this standard across thousands of sessions with real clients.

It is imperfect. It will need revision. It is shipped in this form because the field cannot wait for perfection, and because the practitioners and clients in it deserve a clear standard now.

We welcome feedback, dissent, and refinement from practitioners, lineage holders, scientists, clients, and anyone who has stakes in the integrity of this work.

The Covenant will be reviewed formally every two years, in consultation with the Psychable Council.

THE PSYCHABLE SESSION STANDARD

Universal Layer

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The foundation every Psychable practitioner commits to, regardless of which session container they are holding.

1. Before Any Session

I prepare for every client and every session in advance. I review the client’s intake, intentions, and any notes from prior work so I arrive holding them. I prepare the space, physical, energetic, logistical, to match the container we are entering. I prepare myself, my nervous system, my presence, my clarity, so that I arrive in honest presence, grounded enough to hold what the work asks. The session begins before the client enters.

2. The Opening

Every session opens with presence, consent, and container. I greet the client without rush. I remind them of the container: what this space is, what stays in it, their right to stop at any time, their safety. I invite them to arrive in their body and in the moment. I ground us in the purpose of this specific session and the intention they bring. The opening is never skipped, regardless of session type or how well I know the client.

3. Holding the Work

My primary role is presence. I do not rescue, redirect, or interpret the client’s experience for them. I stay grounded so my nervous system can be a reference point for theirs. My grounded nervous system is itself part of the container; I cultivate the regulation, presence, and somatic literacy this work requires. I use fewer words rather than more, and when I speak, it is to reflect, to invite deeper inquiry, or to hold the frame. I trust the client’s own knowing, the body’s intelligence, and the medicine or practice we are working with. I hold the container steady enough that the client can do the work they came to do.

4. Absolute Lines I Do Not Cross

My commitments are to the client’s wellbeing above all else, including above my own preferences and convenience. These are the lines I do not cross:

I never have sexual, romantic, or financial dual relationships with clients.
I never promise outcomes I cannot guarantee.
I never operate outside my scope of practice or training.
I never impose my interpretation of what a client’s experience means.
I never break confidentiality outside sanctioned limits.
I never work with a client I am not the right match for.
I never cut corners on preparation or integration.
I never treat medicine or ceremony casually.
I never speak about a client to anyone outside the sanctioned care team.
I never facilitate a medicine or ceremony I do not have direct, embodied experience with. I may integrate with clients who have worked with medicines I have not personally sat with, trusting my training in non-ordinary states of consciousness and the common architecture of integration, while being honest with the client about what I have and have not experienced, and deferring to their own knowing of what their medicine revealed.

5. Edge Cases and Safety

When something arises that is beyond my scope, acute crisis, psychiatric emergency, medical issue, legal matter, I name it, respond without hesitation, and prioritize the client’s safety above all else. I know the escalation pathways for crisis (988, emergency services, clinical partners) and I use them. I do not leave a client alone in crisis. I refer out to trusted colleagues when specialized care is needed and I stay connected through the transition so the client does not feel abandoned. I document what happened and review my response afterward.

6. The Close

Every session closes with care. I bring the client back to their body, to the room, to the world they are re-entering. I invite them to name what was most alive for them and I listen without correcting. I offer brief reflection only when it serves them. I set clear integration work: specific, concrete, matched to what happened in the session. I remind them that the real work unfolds in the days ahead. I never send a client out of a session in a state that is not safe for them to carry into their life.

7. Between Sessions

I manage between-session contact with clarity. The client knows how to reach me for real needs. Between-session time belongs to the client’s own life, and I protect that space as sacred, both theirs and mine. I respond within a reasonable window, not immediately. I do not do therapy by text. I do not hold new therapeutic material outside the container. Between sessions is the client’s time to let the work land in their life, and I honor that time as part of the work, not an interruption from it.

8. The Frame of the Whole Relationship

I hold every client relationship as a whole arc, not a series of transactions. I believe people change when they are held with enough steadiness to meet what they have been avoiding, and equipped with enough structure to integrate what they meet into a life they are actively building. Cracking open is not healing. Healing is what happens when what was revealed gets woven back into the body, the relationships, the daily practice, and the sense of self. My role is to hold the container, witness honestly, and equip the client with the tools and rhythms to do the real integration work themselves. I am not the healer. I am a steward of the space in which the client’s own healing can happen.

9. Lineage and Reverence

I remember, always, that I am not the origin of this work. I am a current steward of something ancient, something much bigger than me. When lineage and tradition are present in the session, through the medicine, the practice, the framework, I name them. When they are not explicitly present, I still carry the remembering.

This section is the operational backbone referenced by the Psychable Covenant. Session-type-specific protocols (Consultation, Preparation, Integration, Ceremony, Microdosing) are developed and maintained separately, with this Universal Standard as their foundation.

Psychable Session Standard v1.0

THE PSYCHABLE Community Center

Welcome to Psychable’s Community Center, a global community of people who are passionate about the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics. We invite you to share knowledge, practical advice, and personal stories with other like-minded people who are creating a world where psychedelic medicine can be safely accessible to all.

If you see something that goes against these guidelines, please report it. We review flagged content and take appropriate action as needed.

To ensure that community discourse is uplifting and supportive, we have provided these guidelines to help minimize the harm that can occur, whether intentionally or unintentionally, in online spaces.

General Guidelines

1. Be kind, respectful, and encouraging of each other, even if you have differing points of view.

2. Engage in nonviolent, trauma-informed communication, since many people are here to seek healing.

3. Be clear in your communication and post full answers, which will make it easier for others to engage with you.

4. Follow the rules of Psychable’s Content Policy and do not post any advertisements to solicit for or sell illegal substances, do not endorse any illegal activities, and/or reveal personal information like phone numbers to protect the privacy of yourself or others. Please be aware that content on the public forum is accessible to anyone.

5. Every member should feel welcome. Please be respectful and inclusive of other members in accordance with Psychable’s Nondiscrimination Policy.

Nondiscrimination Policy

Our company is explicitly anti-racist and committed to long-term advocacy, proactive inclusion, and diversity. We recognize the violence and harm that the drug war has explicitly and intentionally inflicted upon communities of color. We validate the need for restorative measures, such as the expungement of criminal records, as substances like cannabis, psilocybin, and MDMA become decriminalized and legalized for medical use. We recognize the continuation of systemic privileges and inequities that make the psychedelic sector predominantly white and affluent and hope to do our part to make the sector more inclusive, accessible, and diverse.

We are not perfect and we may make mistakes, but we will absolutely not stand silent nor silence others as we do our part to pursue equity.

Discrimination based on race/ethnicity/nationality, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, economic status, physical and mental ability and status, drug use, and age are not permitted at Psychable. Hate speech, tone policing, and persistent ignorance will not be tolerated in our spaces.

We strive to recognize inequities and amplify voices in the psychedelic community that have been previously suppressed, devalued, or ignored.

We recognize that some naturally occurring psychedelics, such as peyote and ibogaine, are under threat due to habitat destruction and improper and unsustainable overharvesting. We also recognize that indigenous peoples continue to be impacted by colonization, extractive industries, and climate change. We believe that it is imperative to protect and preserve these plants, and also the autonomy of cultures that have stewarded these traditions over time. Psychable values sharing educational information about the safe practice and sustainable use of these medicines.

We are committed to accountability and to owning and addressing our mistakes. We strive to build a community that educates and supports each other, as well as uplift a culture of mutual aid, responsibility, and accountability.

Psychable will not give a platform to practitioners who have a history of abusive practices. We are committed to doing everything we can to discern whether or not a provider is safe to list on our site. Psychable reserves the right to list and remove practitioners as we see fit.

We recognize the prevalence of sexual harassment and abuse in psychedelic spaces as well as in broader social contexts. We believe that this impacts everyone and that everyone is responsible for ending sexual violence. Psychable commits to approaching issues of sexual misconduct through a trauma-informed lens.

Psychable’s forums strive to build systems of equity, reciprocity and support, safe practice, and continued education for seekers of psychedelic therapy as well as practitioners. We believe that each person is the ultimate authority on their own mind and body, that each person has their own inner healing intelligence, and that practitioners are here in service of each person’s unique journey.

Psychable hopes to expand the psychedelic discourse while remaining committed to hosting a community that prioritizes ethics and safety for everyone.

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