Janis Phelps, PhD, is the founder and director of the psychedelic therapy education program at the California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco since 2014. Her popular 2017 journal publication, Developing Guidelines and Competencies for the Training of Psychedelic Therapists, describes best practices in the academic training of medical and mental health professionals in this field. Janis has worked in multiple therapeutic modalities for 25 years as a clinical psychologist and doctoral professor.