We blend psychoanalytic and trauma-informed psychotherapy with somatic work. Your retreat is held by a Swiss–South African, federally recognized psychotherapist (15 years’ experience) and an experienced mind–body practitioner (25+ years) with shamanic training. What this means for you: · A kinship of methods. Psychedelics and psychoanalysis share an affinity—both can loosen rigid patterns of thinking and behaving. In pairing, they can deepen and accelerate psychological work when integrated well. · Depth over performance. We work from a clinical foundation. We prioritize careful preparation, ego-softening work, skilled accompaniment through intense states and regressions, and proper integration. · High facilitator-to-participant ratio. Small groups (max five) withtwo staff ensure close attunement, pacing, and safety.

Trauma-informed means we attend to the full spectrum of trauma. · What’s obvious and what’s subtle. We work with both single-event traumas (accidents, losses, ruptures) that often bring people to retreats, and the quieter injuries the body stores over a lifetime—micro-ruptures, chronic stress, and the ‘small traumas’ that accumulate and manifest in wounds of the soul. · Ancestral & intergenerational. We honor transmitted trauma—what travels through families and cultures—and how history shows up in the nervous system, relationships, and self-story. · Early relational wounding. We track attachment, misattunement, and early environments that can leave splits in the psyche—parts that protect, parts that exile, parts that long. · Safety in pacing. We prepare and resource first (breath, grounding, consent, choice), titrate the work within your window of tolerance, and co-regulate throughout. What arises is met with attuned ears and eyes—psychoanalytic depth for meaning, somatic tools for regulation, and a plan for carrying it home.

Psychoanalysis listens for what lies beneath conscious narratives: defenses, patterns, attachment wounds, splits in the self that form around early experience, culture, and trauma. In a careful relationship, those patterns become visible, nameable, and open to change. In a retreat setting, analysis gives a map and a container, so what arises can be understood, integrated, and implemented. How it fits our approach: · Depth with direction. We attend to the unconscious—the habits of mind and feeling that protect and constrain. We notice when defenses soften, when grief appears, and how meaning organizes your experience. · Trauma-informed by design. We track early relational wounds, intergenerational/ancestral trauma, and the quieter, lifelong injuries the body carries. We pace and titrate the work within a safe window of tolerance. · Attachment in the room. Change happens in relationship. We pay attention to how you relate—to us, to others, to yourself—so shifts become embodied, not just understood. · Integration = treatment. Insight is translated into language, practice, and next steps. We help you build small, durable rituals that keep the work alive at home. · A true pairing with psychedelics. Psychedelics can loosen rigid patterns; psychoanalysis helps name and anchor what moves. Together, they can accelerate work that otherwise takes years—safely, because it’s held with skill and structure.

In a carefully held setting, psilocybin can loosen what’s stuck, increase psychological flexibility, and bring up material that is hard to reach in ordinary talk therapy. When paired with trauma-informed care and serious preparation and integration, those openings can become usable change—felt in the body and lived in the world. How psilocybin links with trauma-informed psychoanalytic care: · Addresses avoidance. Trauma often organizes around avoidance (of memories, sensations, emotions). Psilocybin can temporarily reduce avoidance, allowing contact with unwanted experience at a tolerable pace. · Creates a window for plasticity. Short-lived increases in cognitive and emotional flexibility can support new learning and memory reconsolidation. · Enhances emotional processing. Many participants report greater access to difficult autobiographical material with more compassion and less reactivity, which can accelerate meaning-making when it’s skillfully held. · Restores connection. Feelings of connectedness (to self, others, and the world) are common and can counter isolation, shame, and fragmentation that often follow trauma.

We use psilocybin-containing truffles, which are legal in the Netherlands.

Our work is for adults seeking deep, supported inner work in a small group with high clinical oversight. We begin with a rigorous, unhurried screening (medical and psychological history, current medications, goals, risk factors), and we coordinate with your prescriber when medication questions arise. Preparation for the retreat and integration afterwards unfold in 1:1 and group sessions.

Integration is treatment. We translate experience into language, meaning, and practice through: · On-site integration circles (group) plus 1:1 integration (post-retreat) · Psychoanalytic framing (how defenses, attachment, and unconscious material moved) · Somatic tools (grounding, breath, meditation) and creative process.

We intentionally cap groups at five participants. This high staff-to-participant ratio allows for close attunement and tracking, careful pacing, and real containment.