19/08/2026
Have your say on a national policy decision that shapes who can deliver psychedelic assisted psychotherapy in Australia.
AMAPP is Australia's peak multidisciplinary body for psychedelic assisted therapy, honouring both professional expertise and lived experience. We advocate for clients' rights to safe, equitable care and for fair protections for practitioners.
Under the current TGA pathway, only psychologists with clinical psychology endorsement can fill the mandatory qualifying practitioner role on behalf of the psychology profession. Appropriately qualified medical practitioners, registered nurses with mental health experience and registered occupational therapists can also fill it, assessed on scope, training and experience. Generally registered and counselling psychologists cannot, whatever their training or supervised experience.
Material released under FOI 26-3215 records that the TGA's October 2025 outcomes paper proposed a broader rule, that of 29 recorded consultation responses 15 supported broadening the qualifying role and 9 opposed it, and that no National Board holds a psychedelic assisted psychotherapy specific qualification or endorsement. The Psychology Board's advice was expressed as an interim position, applying "until evidence base grows".
Our question to the sector and the community is simple: is it consistent to require clinical psychology endorsement for psychologists, when occupational therapists, mental health nurses and medical practitioners qualify through scope, training and experience?
AMAPP is calling for a transparent, competency based framework instead, the same position we put to the TGA in our August 2025 submission, endorsed by PACFA. We are now collecting professional and community submissions and putting them directly to the TGA and the Psychology Board of Australia.
If you are a practitioner, researcher, clinical trial investigator, or you work in a professional or peak body, tell us what you have seen of multidisciplinary practice, training, supervision and workforce impact.
If you are a consumer, family member, carer, or part of a lived experience community, tell us how continuity of care, client choice, cost and access to a practitioner you trust affect you.
AAPi is independently challenging the same restriction, and our credentialing team is reviewing AMAPP's policies in line with the new TGA policy, with updated guidelines to follow.
Read the full campaign page and make a submission: https://www.amapp.org.au/tga-campaign
This campaign provides general educational and policy information. It does not provide clinical or legal advice, promote access to an unapproved medicine, or make claims about the safety or effectiveness of a regulated health service. Please keep submissions factual, respectful and focused on evidence and policy impact.
Have your say on the TGA rule that lets only clinical psychologists with an area of practice endorsement fill the required registered role on a psychedelic assisted psychotherapy team. AMAPP is gathering professional and community submissions, and freedom of information material shows the TGA's own
