James Bennett-Levy

James Bennett-Levy is an Honorary Professor at the University of Sydney, and a leading researcher on the training of psychotherapists. He has published 5 co-authored books on psychotherapist training and clinician skills, which have been translated into 12 languages. Over the past 6 years, James has had involvement with 4 of Australia’s first psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT) clinical trials. He has contributed to the training of prospective PAT therapists on 3 of those trials; been a chief investigator on 2 trials; and been a therapist on one trial – psilocybin-assisted therapy for prolonged grief. Recently, James has been one of the authors of a paper suggesting the importance of PAT therapists having some personal experience of PAT (Negrine et al., 2026).