About Inwardbound
Inwardbound is an Irish-founded team of psychotherapists, psychologists, a psychiatrist, scientists and facilitators running legal psilocybin retreats in the Netherlands and Costa Rica, and training the next generation of psychedelic facilitators.
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8 years running psilocybin retreats
1,000+ retreat participants
Our purpose
Our purpose is to reconnect people to themselves, to each other and to nature. We support people through healing, trauma release, exploration of the unknown, non-ordinary states of consciousness and shifts in perspective, and we encourage the exploration of inner creativity and personal development.
We want to raise consciousness to create a better human experience, to build community, and to contribute to the debate on the safe use of psychedelics through carefully held, legal wellness retreats.
Our vision
A platform for self-exploration, held in a supportive, non-judgemental and transparent way.
Personal breakthroughs, self-growth, creativity and inner healing.
To ourselves, to each other and to nature.
To be world leaders and pioneers in psychedelic therapy and facilitator training.
To contribute to the evolution of global consciousness.
Our roots
Visionary inspiration
In ancient Ireland, the filí, or poet seers, practised a ritual called Imbas Forosnai to reach visionary inspiration: an altered state that enlightens.
The ritual is thought to have involved psychedelic mushrooms. At Inwardbound we see our work as remembering our own ancestral, Irish, indigenous tradition of psilocybin use for visionary inspiration and healing.
After a long colonial legacy of disempowerment, we are reclaiming part of our indigenous Gaelic culture, our ancestral memory and our tradition for ourselves.
Our values
Everything we do sits within a legal and scientific framework and the principle of do no harm.
Our team
Our team brings together psychiatry, psychotherapy, psychology, science, ceremonial practice and retreat care. Everyone who works with you has been chosen for both their training and their presence.
Co-founder and Psychotherapist
Rob is an accredited psychotherapist and transpersonal therapist. His work brings together integrative psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted therapy, transpersonal psychology and more than 20 years of 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.
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Co-founder and Scientific Lead Facilitator
Darragh is a scientist and qualified transpersonal therapist with a PhD in Science from Trinity College Dublin. He brings together scientific training, transpersonal psychology and extensive experience with non-ordinary states of consciousness, and shapes Inwardbound’s scientific and therapeutic approach.
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Consultant Psychiatrist
A psychiatrist and psychotherapist with more than 40 years of clinical experience, 30 of them in the Netherlands, known for her long-standing work in psychedelic integration in the Netherlands and Germany.
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Psychologist and Hypnotherapist
A psychologist (M.Sc.), hypnotherapist and psilocybin facilitator with Inwardbound since 2021. Her research on psilocybin at the University of Innsbruck became a book, published by Carl-Auer in 2020.
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Psychotherapist and Screening Practitioner
An accredited integrative psychotherapist and founder of Psychedelic Integration Ireland. Michael brings a grounded clinical eye to our screening, assessing whether a retreat is a safe fit for each person.
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Psychotherapist and ACT Trainer
A cognitive behavioural psychotherapist and internationally recognised ACT trainer with deep experience in trauma and PTSD. Since 2003 he has trained more than 1,500 therapists, many within the NHS.
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Psychotherapist
An IACP-accredited psychotherapist who spent ten years working with children in state care. She brings particular sensitivity to attachment, safety and the impact of early relationships.
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Psychotherapist (MIAHIP) and Integration Practitioner
An accredited Irish psychotherapist, psychedelic facilitator and meditation practitioner, drawing on Celtic, shamanic and contemplative wisdom traditions alongside his clinical training.
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Psychotherapist and Integration Practitioner
A Gestalt-trained psychotherapist working with trauma and psychedelic integration, trained through CIIS, Compassionate Inquiry and Schema Therapy. She supports participants before, during and after retreats.
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Psychotherapist and Psychiatric Nurse
A psychotherapist in Existential Analysis and psychiatric nurse with more than a decade in mental health care, including addiction and palliative care. She supports preparation and integration.
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Psychologist, Preparation and Integration
A coaching psychologist with a background in counselling, trauma-informed coaching and shamanic studies, who gives each person practical tools they can keep using long after the retreat.
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Facilitator and Integration Practitioner
An experienced plant medicine and psychedelic ceremony facilitator. Renée uses voice and intuitive sound to support emotional expression and release.
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Facilitator and Ceremonial Practitioner
Her practice is shaped by teachers around the world, including Mayan communities in Guatemala. Tiziana brings a calm, heart-led presence to ceremony.
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Transpersonal Therapist and Author
More than 25 years in the healing arts, trained in Grof Transpersonal Therapy and holotropic breathwork, and author of Beyond Yoga: Healing Arts for Extraordinary States of Consciousness.
Anishinaabe Medicine Pipe Carrier
A medicine pipe carrier of the Sturgeon clan of the Anishinaabe First Nation. On special occasions he brings the sweat lodge medicine of his people to our retreats.
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Somatic Trauma Therapist
A somatic trauma specialist, bestselling author and TEDx speaker, and founder of the Trauma-Informed Plant Medicine Program, focused on embodiment, consent and harm prevention.
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Harm Reduction Educator and Transpersonal Therapist
Decades of experience in psychedelic harm reduction. Declan teaches our harm-reduction module and keeps Irish ancestral and shamanic traditions.
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Clinical Psychologist, Apprentice Circle
A clinical psychologist and co-founder of the Psychedelic Student Network Germany. Stela runs the Apprentice Circle, where trainees reflect and integrate throughout the programme.
Transpersonal and Jungian Psychotherapist
Martin has worked as a mental health care professional since 1977. He is a member of OBOD (the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids), an accredited transpersonal and Jungian psychotherapist, and director of the Dunderry Park OakTree Trust.
Operations Manager and Client Services
Vanessa oversees the day-to-day coordination of Inwardbound and is one of the main points of contact for clients.
She supports participants throughout their journey, from their initial enquiry and registration to the screening process, preparation and retreat logistics. Working closely with the team, she helps ensure that every stage is clearly communicated and thoughtfully organised.
With a professional background in marketing, communications, event coordination and community building, Vanessa has experience creating and supporting international retreats and community experiences across the world.
As a yoga teacher, women’s mentor and retreat facilitator, she also brings an understanding of embodiment, mindfulness and holistic wellbeing to her work. Her approach is warm, attentive and grounded in her passion for creating spaces in which people feel welcomed, supported and genuinely cared for.
Retreat Care and Wellbeing
Our retreat care lead and a yoga instructor, with a gift for making people feel comfortable, nourished and genuinely looked after.
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Nutritional Therapist and Retreat Chef
Trained in Nutritional Therapy and in holistic nutrition and culinary arts at Bauman College, Nicky makes food a nourishing part of the retreat.
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Nutritional Therapist and Food Curator
Trained as a pastry chef at fifteen, Micaela brings ancestral food traditions, music and ritual into nourishing retreat spaces.
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