Are your patients suitable for medicine-assisted therapy?
We advise and train psychiatrists, practice-owners, therapists and regulators to provide safe access to medicine-assisted therapy.
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What We Do
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Looking to become an Authorised Prescriber or work with one?
Become an Authorised Prescriber or work with an Authorised Prescriber in our network.
- Authorised Prescriber training- Protocol development and amendments
- Regulator-ready documentation
- End-to-end submission support
- Protocol training
- Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy training
- Authorised Prescriber Supervision and Mentoring
- Psychotherapy supervision
- Integrative psychiatry training - antidepressant deprescribing, EMDR and more
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Become credentialed to work in medicine-assisted therapy
Build out your treatment and operational protocols, as well as the therapist team.
- Join our network of Authorised Prescribers- Policies and procedures
- Risk and governance frameworks
- Therapist credentialing module, covering key aspects of working within an Authorised Prescriber team
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Ensure your work is compliant
We train your team to deliver with confidence.
- End-to-end training- Medicine-assisted therapy training programs
- Antidepressant deprescribing training
- Integrative psychiatry training
- Medicolegal aspects of PAT
- EMDR and harm minimisation
Psychiatrists pursuing Authorised Prescriber status
who is this for?
Clinics launching psychedelic-assisted therapy
Practices expanding into integrative psychiatry
Teams seeking structured, compliant delivery models
Authorised Prescribers in australia
48
therapists are credentialed in our network
25
total number of patients treated in australia
188
How TPC works for you
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Step 1 Consultation
We assess your goals, readiness, and pathway
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Step 2 — Setup
We build your clinical and regulatory infrastructure
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Step 3 — Approval
We support your AP application and submission
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Step 4 — Delivery
You begin treating patients with structured protocols
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Step 5 — Ongoing Support
We provide continued advisory, mentoring, and updates
Our Team
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Monica Schweickle
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR
Monica Schweickle is a clinical psychologist, MDMA assisted therapist and psilocybin assisted therapist, with 20 years’ experience in diverse mental health settings. Monica known for her practical and collaborative approach, drawing upon years of experience in mental health care program directorship and development. She is an experienced trauma therapist, mother, yoga and meditation teacher and psychology board approved supervisor. She was also the first psychologist in the world to provide legal MDMA assisted therapy to a client with PTSD outside of a clinical trial. Her experience includes federal and state government mental health services, private mental health services, veterans and their families, domestic and family violence survivors, people experiencing addictions and adult survivors of childhood trauma. -
Chris Raine
DIRECTOR
Chris Raine is a mental healthcare entrepreneur and executive dedicated to pioneering innovative treatments for addiction and mental health. He founded Hello Sunday Morning, a non-profit organisation that established one of the world's largest online communities supporting individuals recovering from alcohol dependence. Chris also co-founded Clean Slate Clinic, a telehealth service delivering home-based alcohol detox programs, which has successfully supported over 2,000 detoxes across AustraliaAs a 2024 Kenneth Myer Innovation Fellow, Chris spent 12 months contributing to the establishment of Australia's psychedelic-assisted therapy system, developing extensive relationships and deep insights that enabled treatment access for the first 100 patients. He advises organisations on business strategy, administration, fundraising, governance, and navigating the regulatory frameworks required to build successful psychedelic-assisted therapy practices.
Chris has been recognised as Young Australian of the Year (QLD) and a Westpac Social Change Fellow. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Oxford University and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University.
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Dr Joe Starke
SENIOR CONSULTANT PSYCHIATRIST
I am a consultation and liaison psychiatrist, psychotherapist and mindfulness meditation teacher. Since 2022, I have been a trial therapist in psychedelic research trials at Swinburne University, prescribing the first dose of psilocybin used for treatment resistant depression in Australia, and I am currently involved in a trial of psilocybin for body image disturbance in the context of anorexia nervosa. Since 2023, I have been part of the Clinical Psychedelic Lab at Monash University, contributing to an international multi-site trial of 5-MeO-DMT for treatment resistant depression, and ongoing research using MDMA for PTSD. -
Jenny Austin
OPERATIONS
Jenny is an operations professional with a background across startups and global technology companies, bringing a practical, systems-minded approach to her work at The Psychedelic Consultancy. She supports clinician onboarding, coordination, and the operational processes required to deliver care within evolving clinical and regulatory frameworks.Originally from the US, Jenny brings an international perspective to a field that is evolving quickly in Australia. She is deeply motivated by the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy to transform lives, and feels privileged to contribute to the work being done, ensuring the operations behind the scenes are strong enough to support the care delivered at the front.
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“In a world first, Australia has authorised the prescription of MDMA and psilocybin for PTSD and treatment resistant depression. Although exciting and promising to bring relief from suffering to patients with these conditions, the route to becoming an authorised prescriber as a busy Psychiatrist involves numerous steps including submissions to Human Research Ethics Committees and to the Therapeutic Goods Administration. The Psychedelic Consultancy founded by Monica has proved incredibly useful to me and my practice in navigating the complexities of these processes. I have been impressed by her responsiveness and expertise and my journey becoming an authorised prescriber has been greatly facilitated by her contribution. I highly recommend the service to any Psychiatrist interested in making these novel therapies available to their patients.”
— Dr Llew Lewis, Psychiatrist
“Monica has been instrumental in my journey as an Authorised Prescriber and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy (PAT) psychotherapist, helping me at every step of the way. She is incredibly knowledgeable in all things PAT, highly experienced, and remarkably efficient at navigating the complex web of regulatory requirements relating to the setting up and maintaining of a PAT clinic. She has a wonderfully warm and professional style, and really goes above and beyond; her passion for guiding and mentoring people into the PAT world is evident. It has also been an absolute pleasure collaborating with her as a co-therapist in PAT work. I can wholeheartedly recommend The Psychedelic Consultancy; an indispensable resource for any psychiatrist or other clinician interested in PAT.”
— Dr Anish Modak, Psychiatrist
“Monica has an exceptional understanding of the Authorized Prescriber scheme, having developed one of the first successful programs and supported many others in gaining approval. Her deep expertise and strategic insight made her an invaluable guide through what is otherwise a complex and often opaque process. She was highly organized, efficient, and responsive throughout, and demonstrated great flexibility in incorporating my preferences into the application. I truly can’t imagine having navigated this process without her support.”
— Dr Simon Amar, Psychiatrist