About Us
Mission
The Psilocybin Assisted Therapy Association's (PATA) mission is to promote the advancement of Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy.
Our goals:
- Inform the general public and advocate for the use of PAT
- Reduce the stigma of using psilocybin, the active ingredient in "magic mushrooms," in general and as a therapeutic modality
- Provide clinical resources and information to consumers and mental health therapists
Our primary programs include:
- Educating the community about the benefits of PAT, thereby reducing the stigma of using psilocybin therapeutically and for personal growth.
- Offering a free Self-Assessment Tool that provides clients with the best means to reach their therapeutic outcomes with a focus on mental health therapy.
- Providing our Psilocybin-Assisted Therapy Association (PATA) Model supported by clinical resources and information to both consumers and therapists interested in PAT.
- Equipping consumers with guidelines and resources enabling them to choose the best provider for their individual therapeutic needs. Including information about Oregon Psilocybin Services.
- Advocating for the advancement of PAT and psychedelics from the local to international levels
Core Beliefs
- Psilocybin as a natural product has an extraordinary ability when taken to help individuals with issues such as depression, anxiety, substance use, and trauma.
- To achieve clinical improvements, consumers should include licensed mental health professional (LMHP) in their PAT process..
- Improved mental health is the primary outcome of all of our programs.
- LMHPs should be involved in a consumer’s PAT process if their goals are mental health focused.
- PAT is a team approach. As our model describes, LMHPs and psychedelic professionals both work for the consumers' best interest.
- Helping consumers heal is the ultimate objective regardless of personal or professional bias.
- Educational resources are psilocybin-focused.
- Psychedelics are not the same, thus resources and training should not be the same.
- Consumers should be educated on the potential for needing post-experience integration or integration therapy, regardless of initial intention.
- Intense and challenging experiences may occur, and an integration professional can help with integration, but only .a psychedelic-friendly LMHP should provide integration therapy
- Education leads to personal empowerment for consumers to address mental health using PAT and for professionals to help address a national mental health crisis.
- Education leads to personal and professional empowerment that will result in LMHPs providing better mental health care and consumers having increased potential for improved mental health outcomes.
- LMHPs have existing training and mastery on how to provide mental health therapy. Their specialties and existing modalities are what are used to help their clients.
- We aim to reduce the stigma and concerns that additional mental health training is needed for a LMHP to perform their work.
- LMHPs anywhere in the US can participate in PAT while remaining compliant for their licensure using a harm reduction approach.
- LMHPs do not need to be present during the psilocybin experience or participate in the logistical set & setting.
- LMHPs do not need to have personal experience with or the desire to personally use psilocybin to provide mental health care to a client/consumer.
- To best serve consumers in the global mental health crisis, personal experience is a benefit but should not exclude a therapist from providing PAT integration therapy.
- An all-or-nothing approach is not consumer-focused.
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