Conscious Physicians Psychedelics Academy
Become a Certifying Clinician Under New Mexico's Medical Psilocybin Act
Become a Certifying Clinician Under New Mexico's Medical Psilocybin Act
Conscious Physicians Psychedelics Academy (CPPA) has created the 8+ hour Certifying Clinician training required under New Mexico Department of Health rules, preparing DOs, MDs, NPs, and PAs who hold a New Mexico controlled substance license to confirm patient safety and provide medical clearance for legal psilocybin-assisted therapy, with ongoing support through the CPPA clinician community.
The completed course is pending UNM School of Medicine CME accreditation, with a planned launch on November 1, as CPPA's promise to the people of New Mexico to do everything in our power to prevent a bottleneck in access to care in January 2027.
Who this course is for
Who this course is for
This program is only for New Mexico licensed clinicians with a controlled substance number, who will serve as certifying clinicians under the Medical Psilocybin Act (SB 219).
You are eligible if you:
- Hold an active New Mexico license as an MD, DO, NP, or PA
- Hold an active New Mexico controlled substance registration number
- Will be evaluating patients seeking psilocybin-assisted treatment under New Mexico law
This is not a facilitator training program. Certifying clinicians do not provide psilocybin-assisted sessions. If you are seeking facilitator certification, this course will not meet that requirement.
What is the Certifying Clinician role?
What is the Certifying Clinician role?
Under New Mexico's Medical Psilocybin Act and the Department of Health rules, the certifying clinician is the medical gatekeeper of the pathway.
Your role is to:
Educate the patient
On Psilocybin Assisted Treatment.
Confirm the qualifying diagnosis
Establish and document that the patient meets a qualifying condition.
Complete medication reconciliation
Identify interactions, contraindications, and tapering considerations before referral.
Determine medical clearance and readiness
Assess medical, psychiatric, and safety risk factors.
Refer appropriately
Determine whether the patient is ready to be referred to a state-certified facilitator, a psychiatrist, a therapist, etc.
Document and report
Meet confidentiality obligations under 42 CFR Part 2 and state research and data collection requirements.
The 8+ Hours curriculum
The 8+ Hours curriculum
The Department of Health requires a certifying clinician module of no fewer than eight didactic hours covering eight content areas.
This course covers all eight — and goes further.
Required content areas:
Psilocybin action, interactions, and pharmacology
Medicine pharmacology, metabolism, dose-response, and the interaction profile that matters most in practice: SSRIs/SNRIs, MAOIs, lithium, antipsychotics, and others.
Overview of certifying clinician responsibilities
Scope, boundaries, documentation, and where your role ends and the facilitator's begins.
42 CFR Part 2
Substance use disorder record confidentiality, consent, and disclosure rules applied to real psilocybin charting scenarios.
Diagnosis of qualifying conditions
Diagnostic criteria, differential diagnosis, and documentation standards for the conditions qualifying under the Act.
Determining medical clearance for psilocybin therapy
Cardiac, neurologic, and psychiatric screening; absolute versus relative contraindications; how to document a clearance or referral decision.
Psychedelic emergencies and urgencies, and medical monitoring
Spiritual emergency, holding space, psychiatric urgency and medication management, and when to escalate.
Research and data collection requirements
Documentation on what the state expects you to capture and report, and how to build it into your workflow.
Competency evaluation
A post-course assessment demonstrating competency across all content areas above.
What we add beyond the requirement
What we add beyond the requirement
Conscious Life Practice tools
Practical clinician-facing frameworks for presence, self-regulation, while holding difficult conversations with patients in an emotionally loaded pathway.
Case-based learning
Real-world screening and clearance cases, including the ambiguous ones.
Expert interviews with two psychiatrists
Candid conversations on psychiatric risk stratification, medication tapering, and past trauma and challenging experiences, and diagnostic evaluation tools.
Journeys Documentary
Understanding Psilocybin Assisted Treatment through 21 expert interviews and real patient interviews & stories. At no additional cost to you.
Continuing medical education
Continuing medical education
This program is PENDING University of New Mexico School of Medicine CME accreditation.
You don't finish alone: the CPPA Clinician Community
You don't finish alone: the CPPA Clinician Community
Certification is the beginning. New Mexico's medical psilocybin program is new, the rules will evolve, and the clinical questions will be genuinely hard.
The CPPA Clinician Community is where certifying clinicians work through them together.
Your membership includes:
- De-identified case consultation between certifying clinicians
- Policy and regulatory updates as the Department of Health rules evolve
- Case studies drawn from real New Mexico practice
- Future continuing education credits and modules as they are released
- Member discounts on future CPPA events and trainings
- A peer network of New Mexico clinicians doing this work
- Free access to Journeys Documentary once you buy the course.
Included free for your first month with course enrollment. After that, $49.97/month — cancel anytime.
Course format
Course format
- Length: 8+ didactic hours
- Delivery: Self-paced online
- Assessment: Competency evaluation required for completion
- Completion: Certificate of completion documenting the eight required content areas, for use with your certification application
- Tuition: $1,200
Certifying Clinician Course
$1,200
8+ didactic hours · Self-paced online
Certificate of completion documenting the eight required content areas, for use with your certification application.
Certifying Clinician Course
$1,200
8+ didactic hours · Self-paced online
Certificate of completion documenting the eight required content areas, for use with your certification application.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
🌿 Heal the Clinician. Heal the Community.
New Mexico's patients are already asking. Be ready to answer.
New Mexico's patients are already asking. Be ready to answer.
Complete your eight required didactic hours, demonstrate competency, and join the clinicians building this standard of care in New Mexico.
$1,200 • 8+ didactic hours • Self-paced online
Conscious Physicians Psychedelics Academy · Albuquerque, New Mexico
This course provides education toward the didactic requirements described in 7.35.3.18 NMAC. Certification decisions are made solely by the New Mexico Department of Health. Nothing in this program constitutes legal advice or a guarantee of certification from the state.
This program is educational in nature and does not provide training in psychedelic administration or medical treatment.
At the federal level, psychedelic substances remain classified as controlled substances. There is, however, increasing federal support for psychedelic research and expanding state-level frameworks, including in New Mexico, where regulated clinical models are actively being developed.
Participants are responsible for practicing within their professional scope and applicable jurisdictional laws.