A practice for guides who refuse to do this alone.
You’ve finished the training. You know the protocols. But nothing in a textbook prepares you for the moment a client’s healing starts to feel like your own, or the sudden loneliness of carrying something you can’t explain to anyone outside the work. Psychedelic Guide Network is where psychedelic guides and facilitators come to practice ethics as an ongoing relationship, not a certificate you earn once and file away.
Founded by Ashley Carmen, LMFT · Built on the InnerEthics® framework · APA-approved CE credits
Four ways to practice ethics, not just learn it.
Start free. Go as deep as the work asks of you.
The Ethical Biography
Seven guided prompts that surface what you’re actually carrying into the room: the motivations you don’t say out loud, the edges you haven’t named, the shadow that hides behind competence. This is the same process we use with every guide who applies to a Wisdom Circle. Private. Saved as you go. Yours to keep either way.
Begin Your Biography →FreeEthical Readiness Assessment
Seven real scenarios drawn from actual practice, not a quiz you can game. Five minutes in, you’ll have a personalized Field Guide showing exactly where you stand and what to develop next. No email required to start.
Take the Assessment →Self-PacedInnerEthics® Courses
The relational ethics curriculum built specifically for psychedelic practitioners: not compliance training, but a way to think through the real dilemmas that show up in the room. Start with Ethics 101 or complete the full Level 1 Certification. Pricing on the course page.
Explore Ethics 101 →By ApplicationInnerEthics® Wisdom Circles
An ongoing peer consultation circle where guides bring real cases, rotate through three roles, and leave with more clarity than they arrived with. This is the practice that never ends: the same seven people, every other week, for as long as you need the room.
Learn About Wisdom Circles →
Here’s how most practitioners move through PGN.
- 1
Begin Your Ethical Biography
Free. Seven guided prompts, private and progressive. You’ll name what you’re actually carrying into your work before you name anything else.Begin yours →
- 2
Take the Ethical Readiness Assessment
Free. Seven real scenarios. Five minutes. You’ll receive a personalized Field Guide that mirrors where you are right now and shows you what to develop.Start here →
- 3
Enroll in Ethics 101
The foundational InnerEthics® course for psychedelic practitioners. Learn to navigate real ethical dilemmas from the relationship itself, not a rulebook.Explore Ethics 101 →
- 4
Complete the Level 1 Certification
All six courses. The most comprehensive relational ethics credential for psychedelic practitioners.See the full certification →
- 5
Apply to a Wisdom Circle
Ongoing peer consultation with practitioners who take this work as seriously as you do. Application required: Ashley reads every one.Learn more →
Ashley Carmen, LMFT
I started this in my living room. I invited a handful of guides I knew were practicing, and I taught them peer consultation, because I kept seeing the same thing everywhere: a brilliant, dedicated practitioner carrying impossible ethical weight, completely alone. No peer structure. No training that fit. Just a code of ethics on the wall and the reality of what actually happens in the room.
That living room became Wisdom Circles. The gap I saw became the Ethical Biography, the Assessment, and the InnerEthics® courses. Every tool here was built because I needed it first, and because the practitioners doing this work deserve better than isolation and a compliance checklist.
Ashley Carmen, LMFT
Founder, Psychedelic Guide Network
The questions guides actually carry.
- Is there a code of ethics for psychedelic facilitators who aren't licensed therapists?
A free, living code of ethics for guides practicing outside clinical licensure: touch and consent, scope of practice, dual relationships, screening, legal honesty, and peer accountability. Version 1.0, by Ashley Carmen, LMFT.
- What's the difference between a psychedelic coach, an integration coach, and a licensed therapist, and what am I actually allowed to do?
Ashley Carmen, LMFT, on what a psychedelic coach, an integration coach, and a licensed therapist are each actually allowed to do, and why the difference is an ethics question, not a marketing one.
- What counts as ethical touch during a psychedelic session, and what crosses a line?
Ashley Carmen, LMFT, on the line between grounding touch and a boundary violation, and what to do when sexual energy surfaces in a psychedelic session.
You’ve read this far. That tells me something.
Most guides who find PGN have spent months looking for their people after a training ended, a peer group dissolved, or a supervision container just quietly fell apart. If any of this named something you’ve been carrying alone, start with the Ethical Biography. Seven prompts. Private. Saved as you go. It’s the same process every guide completes before joining a Wisdom Circle, and it’s the first moment the work actually begins.
Begin Your Ethical BiographyNo email required to save your first response · Takes about 20 minutes · Prefer something shorter? Take the five-minute Assessment instead.