About Us

Rob Ó Cobhthaigh — Co-founder and Psychotherapist

Rob is an accredited psychotherapist, transpersonal therapist and co-founder of Inwardbound. His work brings together integrative psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted therapy, transpersonal psychology and more than 20 years of experience guiding people in challenging natural environments. He is a graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies psychedelic-assisted therapy programme and has completed MAPS MDMA-assisted psychotherapy education. His work is grounded in reconnecting people with themselves, with others and with the natural world.

Dr Darragh Stewart PhD – Co-founder & Scientific Lead Facilitator

Darragh is a co-founder of Inwardbound, a scientist and qualified transpersonal therapist. He holds a PhD in Science from Trinity College Dublin and brings together scientific training, transpersonal psychology and extensive experience with non-ordinary states of consciousness. At Inwardbound, he helps shape the organisation’s scientific and therapeutic approach and supports participants through carefully held psychedelic retreat experiences.

Sophie Adler – Psychologist & Hypnotherapist 

Sophie-Charlotte Alice Adler, MSc, is a psychologist, hypnotherapist, researcher and author specialising in altered states of consciousness. Since 2018, she has supervised ketamine infusions at Instituto Dr. Scheib in Mallorca and later helped establish a private ketamine therapy practice in Berlin. Together with Dr Mario Scheib and Prof Revenstorf, she developed the “Ketamine Hypnosis Package” (KHP), an integrative approach combining ketamine treatment with hypnosis.

Dr Donca Vianu MD — Consultant Psychiatrist

Donca Vianu is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with more than 40 years of clinical experience across different countries and cultures, including 30 years in the Netherlands. Her work integrates psychiatry, psychotherapy, trauma treatment, expanded states of consciousness, creativity and spirituality. She is particularly known for her long-standing work in psychedelic integration in the Netherlands and Germany.

Renée Hendriks – Facilitator & Integration Practitioner

Renée is a facilitator and integration practitioner with many years of experience supporting plant medicine and psychedelic ceremonies. She brings a grounded, open-hearted presence and creates a safe, compassionate space for people to move deeply into their inner process. A distinctive part of Renée’s work is her use of voice as a therapeutic and ceremonial tool — offering vocal guidance and intuitive sound to support emotional expression, release and movement through difficult or previously unspoken experiences.

Dr Lauretta Greer – Psychologist, Preparation & Integration

Lauretta is a coaching psychologist with a background in counselling, organisational psychology, trauma-informed coaching and shamanic studies. Her work is practical and integrative: she combines evidence-based psychology with spiritual principles to help people move beyond simply managing difficulties toward greater wellbeing and flourishing. A central part of her approach is equipping each person with knowledge, tools and strategies they can continue to use independently long after the work together has ended.

Caroline McMullen – Retreat Care & Wellbeing Facilitator

Caroline is the customer care lead on Inwardbound retreats, with a particular gift for creating an atmosphere where people feel comfortable, nourished and genuinely looked after. She is also a yoga instructor, with a background in art teaching and holistic therapies, and a special interest in medicinal essential oils and the healing effects of nature. Having facilitated wellbeing retreats for several years, Caroline brings creativity into the space through mandala work and mindfulness. Her warmth, energy and enthusiasm are a distinctive part of the retreat experience.

Louise Corry – Operations Manager & Client Services

Louise oversees Inwardbound’s day-to-day operations and is often the first point of contact for people considering a retreat. Through exploration calls, she takes time to understand each person’s needs, intentions and expectations, helping them assess whether an Inwardbound retreat is the right fit. Behind the scenes, she coordinates closely with clients, facilitators and the wider team to keep the retreat experience running smoothly. With a background in psychology, psychoanalysis, event management and health & wellbeing coaching, Louise brings both practical organisation and a genuinely person-centred approach to her role.

Michael Ledden – Psychotherapist & Screening Practitioner

Michael is a fully accredited integrative psychotherapist with experience across CBT, mindfulness, humanistic, psychodynamic, existential and transpersonal approaches. Alongside his general psychotherapy practice, he founded Psychedelic Integration Ireland, supporting people before and after psychedelic experiences. At Inwardbound, Michael brings a thoughtful, grounded clinical eye to the screening process, helping assess whether a retreat is a safe and appropriate fit for each participant.

Atira Tan – Somatic Trauma Therapist & Psychedelic Therapy Training Faculty

Atira is a somatic trauma specialist, yoga teacher, educator and activist whose work centres on creating safer, more trauma-informed spaces for healing. She is a #1 bestselling author and TEDx speaker, and for more than 15 years has supported people through somatic and creative trauma-recovery approaches, including work in psychedelic and plant-medicine settings. Atira is the founder of the Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Program and brings a strong focus on embodiment, consent, nervous-system awareness and harm prevention in psychedelic spaces.

Declan Hammond – Training Faculty, Harm Reduction Educator & Transpersonal Therapist

Declan brings decades of experience in psychedelic harm reduction and is part of Inwardbound’s psychedelic therapy training faculty, where he teaches the harm-reduction module. He is also a transpersonal therapist, shamanic practitioner and keeper of Irish ancestral traditions. His work has taken him across the world studying Eastern and Western approaches to healing, as well as traditional shamanic practices, which he weaves into a grounded and deeply experiential approach to supporting people in non-ordinary states.

Julia Gantner – Psychotherapist, Psychiatric Nurse & Psychedelic Integration Practitioner

Julia is a psychotherapist specialising in Existential Analysis and an experienced psychiatric nurse with more than a decade in mental health care, including work in addiction treatment and palliative care. Her approach is deeply shaped by questions of meaning, mortality and authentic self-expression, informed in part by her own near-death experience. Alongside psychedelic preparation and integration, she draws on Ayurveda, yoga, breathwork and nature-based practices to support people through periods of uncertainty, transition and personal transformation.

Maryna Zagorodnia – Psychotherapist, Facilitator & Integration Practitioner

Maryna is a psychotherapist with a background in Gestalt therapy, trauma-focused work and psychedelic integration. Her clinical experience includes supporting adults with complex trauma, depression, anxiety and major life transitions. She has trained in psychedelic-assisted therapies through CIIS, Compassionate Inquiry, Schema Therapy and psychedelic integration, and brings a relational, trauma-informed approach to retreat preparation and integration. At Inwardbound, Maryna supports participants before, during and after psychedelic experiences, with particular attention to safety, meaning-making and helping insights become grounded in everyday life.

Tiziana Sarah Schindler – Facilitator & Ceremonial Practitioner

Tiziana’s work is rooted in a deeply personal spiritual path shaped by years of learning from different teachers and traditions around the world, including Mayan communities in Guatemala and practices centred on the womb and feminine embodiment. She has attended and facilitated ceremonies both with and without plant medicine, drawing on her own healing journey to support others with sensitivity and care. Tiziana brings a calm, heart-led presence to retreat spaces, holding vulnerability and strength side by side and helping participants move through challenging inner processes with gentleness and dedication.

Henry is a cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and internationally recognised Acceptance and Commitment Therapy trainer with extensive experience in trauma and PTSD. For more than seven years, he ran and supervised brief therapy projects for Victim Support and Mind in London gun-crime hotspots, supporting people affected by severe trauma. Since 2003, Henry has trained more than 1,500 psychological therapists and supervised mental health professionals in ACT and trauma work within the NHS. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Regent’s University School of Psychotherapy and Psychology.

Nicky Halliday – Nutritional Therapist & Retreat Chef

Nicky’s path into nutrition began through travel, where experiencing different food cultures sparked a deep curiosity about the relationship between what we eat and how we feel. After returning to Ireland, she trained in Nutritional Therapy and later followed that passion further through holistic nutrition and culinary arts at Bauman College. Her work brings together nutritional knowledge and a genuine love of cooking, creating food that is both nourishing and deeply enjoyable. At Inwardbound, Nicky helps make meals an important part of the retreat experience — supporting wellbeing, comfort and connection through food.

Cristina Kalyani – Transpersonal Therapist, Author & Healing Arts Practitioner

Kalyani has more than 25 years of experience in the healing arts, with a path that has taken her through bodywork, yoga, sound healing, breathwork, hypnotherapy and transpersonal psychology. Over the years, she has studied with teachers including Swami Satsangananda Saraswati, B.K.S. Iyengar, Dolores Cannon and Dr Brian Weiss, and has trained in Grof Transpersonal Therapy and holotropic breathwork. She is also the author of Beyond Yoga: Healing Arts for Extraordinary States of Consciousness, reflecting her long-standing interest in how embodied and transpersonal practices can support people in expanded states.

Micaela Vita – Nutritional Therapist, Food Curator & Holistic Wellness Guide

Micaela is a nutritional therapist, food curator and holistic wellness guide whose relationship with food began early — she trained as a professional pastry chef at just fifteen. Over more than a decade, her work has grown into an exploration of nourishment as a meeting point between health, creativity, culture and connection. Years of travelling and living across Latin and North America deepened her appreciation for ancestral food traditions and the wisdom of Mother Earth. Alongside nutrition, Micaela brings music, ritual and vocal expression into group and retreat spaces, creating experiences that feel nourishing on many levels.

Niamh O’Connell – Psychotherapist & Trauma-Informed Practitioner 

Niamh is an IACP-accredited psychotherapist with experience supporting people through anxiety, depression, grief, relationship difficulties, self-esteem issues, trauma and major life challenges. Before and alongside her psychotherapy work, she spent around ten years working with children in state care and their families across residential and community settings. That experience continues to shape her way of working — with particular sensitivity to attachment, safety, vulnerability and the impact of early relationships. She brings a warm, grounded and non-judgemental presence to supporting people through difficult emotional processes.

Stela Malvasija – Clinical Psychologist & Apprentice Circle Facilitator 

Stela is a clinical psychologist with a background in crisis intervention, youth mental health and psychological counselling. Alongside her clinical work, she facilitates mindfulness groups, workshops and community programmes focused on psychological wellbeing, altered-state integration and meaning-making. She is the founder of Inner Aura and co-founder of the Psychedelic Student Network Germany. At Inwardbound, Stela facilitates the Apprentice Circle, creating a reflective space where trainees can stay connected, process their learning and integrate their experience throughout the training journey.

Iniigoos McKay – Anishinaabe Medicine Pipe Carrier & Ceremonial Practitioner

Iniigoos McKay is a medicine pipe carrier of the Sturgeon clan of the Anishinaabe First Nation people of Canada. He has many years of experience as a Sundancer and has danced with Blackfoot, Shuswap and St’át’imc First Nations communities in Canada. On special occasions, Iniigoos brings the sweat lodge medicine of his people to Inwardbound retreats, offering participants a rare opportunity to encounter this tradition within a carefully held ceremonial context.