Integrative Psychiatry Institute

What Integrative Psychiatry Institute does

Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI) is a privately held, Boulder, Colorado-based educational company that trains mental health providers in psychedelic-assisted therapy and integrative psychiatry. Founded in 2019 by psychiatrist Will Van Derveer, MD and psychotherapist Keith Kurlander, MA, LPC, the company delivers a portfolio of certificate and fellowship programs — anchored by a year-long, 150-hour Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Certification (PATP) and complemented by Integrative Psychiatry, Ketamine Medical Provider, Personalized Medicine, Nutritional Psychiatry, Integrative Women's Health, and Integrative Counseling tracks. Programs are delivered 90% live-virtually through a dedicated online learning environment, with curriculum developed in close alignment with the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and faculty drawn from MAPS researchers, Johns Hopkins, NYU, and other leading institutions.

The institute operates a B2B/B2C training business targeting licensed mental health professionals — psychiatrists, physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, naturopaths, therapists, counselors, and social workers — both as individual enrollees and through institutional buyers including group practices, hospital systems, and behavioral health clinics. Revenue is generated through tuition fees for paid certification programs (described as recurring/subscription-style in the input data), although no pricing is publicly disclosed. Go-to-market combines a sales-led admissions function with a community-led model built around the Higher Practice Podcast, a co-founder-authored book, an alumni provider directory, and a broader referral ecosystem that includes a sibling clinical operator, Integrative Psychiatry Centers (IPC), which delivers ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and serves as a live clinical training site. No external funding rounds, investors, or revenue figures are disclosed; the organization appears self-funded by its co-founders and operates with 11-50 employees.

Name

Integrative Psychiatry Institute

Legal name

Integrative Psychiatry Institute

Website

https://psychiatryinstitute.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Integrative Psychiatry Institute is a Boulder, Colorado-based private education company that trains mental health providers in psychedelic-assisted therapy and integrative psychiatry through a portfolio of year-long certificate programs delivered live-virtually, serving individual practitioners and institutional healthcare buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Professional Mental Health Training and Certification

NAICS

Educational Support Services (611710)

SIC

Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Behavioral Health & Counseling (Social Work, Psychology, Substance Use CE) (EDAAALAD)

Keywords

• Psychedelic-assisted therapy training
• Integrative psychiatry education
• Continuing medical education
• Ketamine provider certification
• Mental health provider training

Headquarters

HQ city

Boulder

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Professional Certification Programs: IPI generates revenue through tuition fees for its multi-tiered certificate programs including the year-long Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Certification (150 hours, 90% live virtual), Integrative Psychiatry Certificate Program, Ketamine Medical Provider Certificate, Integrative Women's Health Certification, Nutritional Psychiatry Certificate, and Personalized Medicine for Mental Health Certificate. These are paid programs for mental health providers seeking specialized training.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Integrative Psychiatry Institute sells multi-tiered certificate and fellowship programs that train licensed mental health providers in psychedelic-assisted therapy and integrative psychiatry. The flagship is the year-long Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Certification (150 hours, 90% live virtual), supported by complementary certificates in Integrative Psychiatry, Ketamine Medical Provider, Personalized Medicine for Mental Health, Nutritional Psychiatry, Integrative Women's Health, and Integrative Counseling. Programs are delivered primarily through a live virtual online learning platform with 200+ expert faculty members, preparing providers to use ketamine now and to be ready for anticipated MDMA and psilocybin approvals.

Product overview

Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI) is an educational platform offering a comprehensive portfolio of certification programs and training for mental health providers. The core offering is the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Certification (PATP), a 150-hour year-long program that serves as the anchor for specialized training tracks including Ketamine Medical Provider Certificate, Personalized Medicine for Mental Health, Nutritional Psychiatry, Integrative Women's Health, and Integrative Counseling programs. These programs collectively prepare mental health professionals to utilize psychedelic-assisted therapies (ketamine, MDMA, psilocybin) and integrative medicine approaches to address root causes of mental illness. Supplementary offerings include the Higher Practice Podcast and a published book on psychedelic therapy. The institute has trained over 10,000 students with 200+ expert faculty members and 1000+ combined learning hours.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Higher Practice: An online company founded by Keith Kurlander providing mental health professionals with clinical trainings for continuing education and business courses for private practice.

Products and services

• Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Certification (PATP) Year-long, 150-hour certification training mental health providers (therapists, physicians, nurses, and allied professionals) in psychedelic-assisted therapy using ketamine and preparing for anticipated MDMA and psilocybin approvals. Delivered 90% live virtual with research-backed lectures and materials and 30+ faculty members.
• Integrative Psychiatry Certificate Program Year-long integrative psychiatry fellowship that moves beyond one-size-fits-all approaches to mental healthcare, building foundational knowledge in integrative, functional, and nutritional medicine for licensed mental health providers.
• Ketamine Medical Provider Certificate Program Training for psychiatrists, anesthesiologists, other physicians, CRNAs, NPs, PAs, and allied healthcare providers teaching evidence-based ketamine treatment for mental health and pain syndromes, including routes of administration, psychedelic medicine, aftercare, business building, and integration with other therapies.
• Personalized Medicine for Mental Health Certificate Program Advanced program that builds on the integrative psychiatry fellowship, focusing on deep phenotyping of patients to design the most effective treatment plans leading to wellness, optimization, and longevity for mental health providers.
• Nutritional Psychiatry Certificate Program Program designed to bring mental health care providers up to date on nutritional psychiatry and its applications to stabilizing and optimizing clients using data-driven nutritional interventions and underlying physiology.
• Integrative Women's Health Certification Certification program focused on integrative approaches to women's mental health within the broader context of integrative psychiatry for mental health providers.
• Integrative Counseling Certification Counseling fellowship program providing training in integrative approaches to psychotherapy and mental health care for licensed counselors and allied mental health providers.
• Psychedelic Therapy Book Evidence-based book published by IPI co-founders Will Van Derveer and Keith Kurlander, providing an introductory guide to understanding psychedelic-assisted therapy and its role in mental health care for both professional and personal audiences.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies / MAPS PBC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIPI's training programs are developed in close alignment with MAPS research and protocols. Several MAPS researchers and trainers serve as IPI faculty. IPI's Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Training was developed with MAPS collaboration, and students receive training aligned with MAPS Phase II and Phase III clinical trial protocols. The co-founders of IPI have been co-investigators in MAPS-sponsored clinical trials.
• InnerTrekminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerInnerTrek is Oregon's first psilocybin facilitator training program. Some IPI graduates (e.g., Amy Koehlinger, Arah Gould) became licensed psilocybin facilitators through InnerTrek, indicating a collaborative relationship in the Oregon psilocybin training ecosystem.
• Bodhi AcademyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerDrew Snyder, IPI Head of Psilocybin Practicum, received training through both IPI in collaboration with MAPS and through Bodhi Academy, indicating complementary training pathways.
• Higher PracticeminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerFounded by IPI co-founder Keith Kurlander, Higher Practice is an online company that provides mental health professionals with innovative clinical trainings for continuing education and business courses. It is related to IPI through shared leadership and serves as a complementary education platform for therapists.
• Integrative Psychiatry Centers (IPC)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerIPC, co-founded by Keith Kurlander and Will Van Derveer alongside IPI, provides patients with integrative psychiatry services and psychedelic-assisted therapy (IV and IM ketamine-assisted psychotherapy). IPC and IPI are sibling organizations sharing founders, vision, and clinical protocols, with IPC serving as a referral source and clinical training site.
• Naropa UniversityminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerMultiple IPI faculty members are Naropa University alumni or current faculty (e.g., Jordan Dobrowski teaches with Naropa University; Keith Kurlander graduated from Naropa; Katie Markley, Kris Isaacs, Zane Guilfoyle are alumni). IPI and Naropa share a transpersonal psychology lineage.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Fluence: Fluence provides psychedelic-assisted therapy training and certification for clinicians, including a year-long psychedelic psychotherapy certificate program. It is a direct competitor to IPI's flagship PATP program, serving the same licensed mental-health-provider audience with similar multi-modality psychedelic and ketamine CE.
• Naropa University: Naropa University offers graduate programs in transpersonal counseling psychology and shares faculty and alumni lineage with IPI (multiple IPI faculty are Naropa alumni). It competes for the same graduate and continuing-education students in contemplative/integrative mental health disciplines.
• MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies / MAPS PBC): MAPS develops psychedelic therapy training curricula and protocols that IPI's programs are explicitly aligned to. MAPS PBC runs its own MDMA-assisted therapy training programs for facilitators, making it both an IPI content authority partner and a direct competitor for psychedelic CE market share.
• Polaris Insight Center: Polaris Insight Center trains and certifies ketamine-assisted psychotherapy providers, overlapping directly with IPI's Ketamine Medical Provider Certificate. It serves a similar clinician audience and represents a peer in the ketamine-focused CE niche.
• InnerTrek: InnerTrek is Oregon's first psilocybin facilitator training program, licensed under the Oregon Psilocybin Services framework. It directly competes with IPI's psychedelic training offering and has produced licensed Oregon facilitators, including IPI alumni.
• Bodhi Academy: Bodhi Academy offers psilocybin facilitator training programs, including for Oregon licensure, and shares faculty/alumni overlap with IPI (IPI's Head of Psilocybin Practicum trained through both programs). It directly competes for the same psychedelic-assisted therapy certification market.

Emerging players

• Psychedelic.Support: Psychedelic.Support is a marketplace and training-resource platform connecting providers to psychedelic therapy education and certification. It is a thinner, emerging player but overlaps with IPI's provider-directory and CE-discovery functions.

Broad incumbents

• Compass Pathways: Compass Pathways is a well-capitalized mental health care company developing psilocybin therapy and runs associated clinician training programs. It overlaps with IPI's psychedelic training thesis but operates at the broader drug-development-and-delivery scale.
• Numinus: Numinus is a publicly-traded psychedelic therapy company operating clinics and providing clinician training programs including ketamine and psilocybin CE. It overlaps with IPI's training portfolio but operates at much larger scale and with a clinic-anchored model.
• PESI (Professional Education Systems Institute): PESI is a large incumbent continuing-education provider for mental health and behavioral health professionals. While not focused on psychedelic therapy, it competes for the same provider CE budget and could expand into psychedelic content as the category matures.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/inpsychinstitue
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCEXgUvB4kH3xKzTqKt5K0XA
• Facebookfacebook.com/integrativepsychiatryinstitute
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/integrative-psychiatry-institute
• Instagraminstagram.com/integrativepsychiatryinstitute

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Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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