Ethical Right Relationship
in Psychedelic Therapy
The ethics training you wish you’d had before your first session. Learn a framework that gives you something you can carry into the room: self-awareness, relational ethics, and the internal compass to navigate what codes of conduct alone can’t cover.
2 CE Hours · Self-Paced Homestudy · $59
Begin Ethics 101 — $59Developed by Kylea Taylor, MS, LMFT · Offered by Psychedelic Guide Network
Instant access · Learn at your own pace
You got trained in protocols.
Nobody trained you for what happens between you and the client.
Ethics goes beyond laws and guidelines. When a client is in a non-ordinary state of consciousness, wide open, profoundly vulnerable, looking at you like you hold the answers, the rulebook disappears. What’s left is the relationship. And that’s where ethical development actually lives.
A client develops feelings for you during a session. You feel something too, and the ethical frameworks you memorized have nothing to say about what to do with your own body in that moment.
You’re carrying sessions home because you can’t tell where the client’s process ends and yours begins. The power differential is real, but nobody taught you how to feel it in real time.
A colleague’s practice concerns you. You don’t know if you’re being protective or projecting. There’s no framework for raising it, and no peer structure to process it in.
You’ve checked all the boxes. And you still walk into the next session with the same unexamined triggers, the same blind spots, the same gap between the code of ethics on the wall and the ethics you actually practice.
This course exists to close the gap that codes of conduct were never designed to fill.
The foundation everything else builds on.
Ethics 101 is the entry point to the InnerEthics® framework: a relational approach to ethical practice developed by Kylea Taylor over three decades of work with psychedelic and transpersonal communities. This isn’t compliance training. It’s an invitation to examine the internal dynamics that shape every therapeutic relationship you hold.
Ethics as Relational Practice
Why trustworthiness forms the foundation of ethical work. How internal motivations and self-awareness create (or erode) the therapeutic container, especially when clients are in profound states of consciousness.
Right Relationship & Right Conditions
What “right relationship” actually means when power differentials, vulnerability, and altered states are all present in the room, and the practical conditions that make healing possible versus harmful.
Recognizing Your Ethical Edges
The internal trigger management and self-inquiry tools that help you notice the moment before a boundary is crossed: the subtle signals most practitioners override until it’s too late.
The Inner Compass
Developing an embodied ethical awareness that complements behavioral ethics training. Something you carry into the room, alongside the codes that guide you there.
The training that completes your ethics education.
What Traditional Ethics Covers
The codes of conduct, liability frameworks, and behavioral guidelines that define professional standards.
What InnerEthics® Adds
The internal motivations, relational patterns, and unconscious dynamics that shape how you actually show up in session.
What Traditional Ethics Covers
Clear boundaries for what not to do.
What InnerEthics® Adds
The self-awareness to recognize the edge before you reach it, especially when consciousness is altered and everything is amplified.
What Traditional Ethics Covers
Frameworks designed for conventional therapy settings with stable, grounded clients.
What InnerEthics® Adds
Training built specifically for practitioners working with non-ordinary states, where vulnerability is amplified and projections intensify.
What Traditional Ethics Covers
A certificate that fulfills your requirement.
What InnerEthics® Adds
A gateway to a complete 6-course certification with peer consultation groups, ethical awareness tools, and a credential you can post that signals you take ethics seriously.
“These tools allow examining ethical dilemmas as opportunities to grow: not just problems to avoid. It shifted how I think about every client interaction.”
PGN Member
“A whole new understanding of ethics is now embedded in me. This wasn’t information I learned: it was a perspective I internalized.”
PGN Member
“One of the best courses on ethics I’ve been part of. It made me realize how much personal bias shows up even when I’m in my provider role.”
PGN Member
“The work with non-ordinary states of consciousness brings specific new challenges and problems. Kylea Taylor’s book is a pioneering venture into these new territories, providing important guidelines for practitioners and students.”
Stanislav Grof, MD, on The Ethics of Caring by Kylea Taylor
Built for practitioners who hold space in altered states.
- Psychedelic therapists, guides, and facilitators at any stage: newly trained or decades in. If you sit with people in non-ordinary states, this is your ethics foundation.
- Licensed mental health professionals (psychologists, LCSWs, LPCCs, LMFTs) who want ethical training that actually addresses the unique dynamics of psychedelic-assisted therapy.
- Integration coaches, harm-reduction workers, and ceremony holders who work with heightened vulnerability and want a rigorous ethical framework specific to the field.
- Researchers and physicians entering psychedelic-assisted therapy who need to understand relational ethics that clinical protocols don’t often emphasize sufficiently.
- Anyone who’s ever sat with a client and felt the gap between what they were trained for and what the room actually demanded, and who wants to learn how to fill that gap.
No prerequisites. Self-paced. Start immediately.
Ethics 101 is where it starts. Here’s the full path.
Six courses. One comprehensive certification that signals you take ethical practice as seriously as the work itself.
Ethics 101: Ethical Right Relationship You Are Here
The foundational course. Internal motivations, self-awareness, and creating trustworthy containers for clients in profound states.
Ethics 102: Right Conditions for Healing
Practical ethical awareness tools including trigger management and self-inquiry techniques that complement behavioral ethics.
Ethics 103: Peer Consultation Groups
How a structured peer consultation framework emphasizes compassion and self-inquiry and supports group members’ mutual ethical development.
Ethics 104: Dual & Multiple Relationships
The legal, ethical, and relational implications of dual relationships when clients experience heightened vulnerability in non-ordinary states.
Ethics 105: The Ethics of Caring
A guided book study based on Kylea Taylor’s The Ethics of Caring. Professional love, boundaries, power dynamics, and accountability in depth-oriented work.
Ethics 106: Peer Consultation Groups and Ethical Awareness Tools
Concrete tools for self-supervision, peer consultation, and formal supervision. Relational accountability for extraordinary states.
Individual total: $444 · Bundle price: $389
Save $55 with the Level 1 Certification bundle. You’ll see the bundle option at checkout.
Start with one course, or get the full certification.
Ethics 101
$59
The foundational course. Start here. Upgrade anytime.
- Full Ethics 101 curriculum
- Self-paced, ongoing access
- Course completion certificate
- Downloadable syllabus & resources
- Upgrade to full bundle anytime
Level 1 Certification
$389
All 6 courses (Ethics 101–106). Full InnerEthics® Level 1 Certification.
- All 6 InnerEthics® courses
- Full InnerEthics® Level 1 Certification
- Level 1 Certification credential
- Peer consultation frameworks
- Ethical awareness tool library
- Self-paced, ongoing access
Both options include instant access via the Psychedelic Guide Network Learning Portal.
The People Behind the Curriculum
Kylea is an internationally recognized author and educator specializing in ethical practice in extraordinary states of consciousness. She is the founder of InnerEthics®, developed over three decades of work in psychedelic and transpersonal communities. The relational framework of InnerEthics® is at the heart of every PGN course. Kylea studied directly with Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof beginning in 1984, worked as a Senior Trainer in the Grof Transpersonal Training for a decade, and spent nine years on the staff of a residential substance abuse treatment center. She brings clinical depth and lived experience to everything she teaches. Her books on ethical awareness and peer consultation for psychedelic practitioners remain foundational texts in the field.
“I created InnerEthics® after seeing practitioners doing extraordinary work in situations of amplified relational complexity that call for ethical self-reflection beyond rules and guidelines. PGN has become a wonderful home for InnerEthics® where it can support ethical development as a living practice in community.”
Kylea Taylor, MS, LMFT
Creator of InnerEthics® · CA License #34901
I built the Psychedelic Guide Network because I kept meeting the same person everywhere: a brilliant, dedicated practitioner carrying impossible ethical weight, completely alone. No peer structure. No framework that fit. Just the code of ethics on the wall and the reality of what happens in the room.
Ethics 101 is the course I wish someone had handed me before my first psychedelic-assisted session. It’s built on Kylea Taylor’s InnerEthics® framework: the only relational ethics curriculum designed specifically for what we do. I offer it through PGN because I’ve lived the gap it fills.
Ashley Carmen, LMFT
Founder, Psychedelic Guide Network
How long does Ethics 101 take to complete?
About 2 hours of on-demand learning. It’s fully self-paced: complete it in one sitting or spread it across several days. Your progress saves automatically, and you have ongoing access to revisit the material.
Is this right for my license type?
The InnerEthics® curriculum is valuable for mental health professionals (psychologists, LCSWs, LPCCs, LEPs, LMFTs) and other practitioners seeking ethical training grounded in relational practice.
What if I want all 6 courses?
The Level 1 Certification bundle includes all 6 courses (Ethics 101–106) for $389, saving $55 versus purchasing individually. You’ll see the bundle as an order bump at checkout. If you start with Ethics 101 alone, you can upgrade to the full bundle later for the price difference ($330).
Do I need any prior training or license?
No prerequisites. Ethics 101 is designed for anyone who works with clients in non-ordinary states of consciousness: licensed therapists, psychedelic guides, integration coaches, researchers, physicians, bodyworkers, ceremony holders. Whether you’re newly trained or have decades of experience, the material meets you where you are.
What’s the InnerEthics® framework?
InnerEthics® is a relational approach to ethical practice developed by Kylea Taylor. Instead of teaching behavioral rules (what not to do), it develops an internal ethical compass: self-awareness, trigger recognition, and the capacity to stay in right relationship with clients, especially in the heightened dynamics of psychedelic-assisted work. It’s been called “groundbreaking” by Jack Kornfield and “pioneering” by Stanislav Grof.
How is this different from the free Ethical Readiness Assessment?
The free Assessment is a mirror: seven scenarios that reveal where you stand. Ethics 101 is the curriculum: structured learning that builds on what the Assessment surfaces. Many practitioners take the Assessment first, receive their personalized Field Guide, and then enroll in Ethics 101 to go deeper. They’re designed to work together.
What format is the course?
On-demand video and written material, best experienced on a tablet or computer. Includes downloadable syllabi, reference documents, and knowledge checks throughout. You’ll take a brief assessment at the end to complete the course.
Your next session is coming.
What will you carry into it?
“Ethical development requires acknowledgement of all aspects of relationship. When we work with people in profound states of consciousness, the ethical stakes aren’t theoretical; they’re alive and in motion during every moment of the session.”
— Kylea Taylor, MS, LMFT
Enroll in Ethics 101 — $59Self-paced · Instant access · Lifetime access
Want the full certification? Add the Level 1 Bundle ($389, all 6 courses) at checkout.
CE Credit Information
2 CE Hours · Homestudy · Video course & assigned reading
Teachings are appropriate for healthcare professionals, as well as the general public. Healthcare professionals will be able to incorporate the tools and practices offered in this program in ways beneficial to clients or patients.
Information on Continuing Education Credits (CECs) for Health Professionals
- CE credits for psychologists are provided by the Spiritual Competency Academy (SCA) which is sponsoring this program. The Spiritual Competency Academy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. The Spiritual Competency Academy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
- The California Board of Behavioral Sciences accepts CE credits for LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFT license renewal for programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- LCSW, LPCC, LEP, and LMFTs, and other mental health professionals from states other than California need to check with their state licensing boards as to whether or not they accept programs offered by approved sponsors of CE by the American Psychological Association.
- SCA is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing (BRN Provider CEP16887) for licensed nurses in California. RNs must retain their certificate of attendance for 4 years after the course concludes.
- For questions about your certificate or the content, logistics, or other support issues regarding this course, please contact Psychedelic Guide Network at support@psychedelicguidenetwork.com. For questions about whether APA CE is valid for you, contact your licensing board directly. For general questions about APA CE, contact SCA at ce@spiritualcompetencyacademy.com.