5-Day Intensive Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Retreat
5-Day Intensive Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy Retreat
Up to 6 in group
November 3 - 7, 2026
Retreat Highlights
- A rare combination of psychoanalysis and psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy designed to provide an intensive mental health treatment boot-camp.
- Psychoanalytic depth focused on unconscious patterns, defences, shadows, attachment styles, conflicts, and unresolved wounds.
- Clinical workshops, creative expression, and art-based work to approach psychological material from multiple angles.
- Experts in trauma-informed care.
- Two psilocybin sessions.
- Three preparation and three post-retreat integration sessions.
- Private bedrooms for each participant.
- Groups purposefully designed to be small.
About this Retreat
Lucien Heusser is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist with a deeply relational, intuitive way of working. Shaped by a lifetime of cross-cultural experience and extensive psychoanalytic training, he is drawn to what sits just beneath the surface — the hidden loyalties, repetitions, defences, longings, and tensions that quietly organize a life.
He has an unusually quick eye for psychological dynamics, often sensing the pattern in a room, a relationship, or a story before it has fully found words. His work is curious, warm, and alive, combining clinical rigour with a sensitivity to the body, imagination, symbolism, and the emotional textures through which unconscious life makes itself known.
Widely published in psychoanalytic and clinical circles, Shelley’s work has appeared in Studies in Gender and Sexuality, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Perspectives, and the American Journal of Psychotherapy. He brings both depth and colour to therapeutic work, interested not only in what has happened to a person, but in how those experiences continue to live — in relationships, symptoms, desire, shame, conflict, and the ways we protect ourselves from what matters most.
His presence invites a particular kind of exploration: safe enough to go somewhere difficult, but never so careful that the work loses its vitality. The result is a space that can feel searching, provocative, playful, and deeply human — one in which people are invited to encounter themselves with greater honesty, complexity, and freedom.
Arinder Sadhra is an actress, somatic processing coach, and teacher of movement and drama whose work is grounded in emotional sensitivity, embodied awareness, and a deep capacity to meet people where they are.
She brings both heart and mind into the room. Highly empathic and intuitively attuned, Arinder is able to sense shifts in mood, tension, and relational dynamics quickly, while remaining open, warm, and deeply human in the way she responds. Her background in performance gives her a finely developed awareness of gesture, voice, expression, inhibition, and the many ways experience is held in the body before it can be put into words.
Her own experience of living beyond conventional social scripts also informs a trauma-sensitive, non-pathologising way of understanding people. She is comfortable approaching difficulties from unexpected angles, making space for complexity, contradiction, identity, and forms of experience that do not always fit neatly into familiar categories.
In the retreat setting, Arinder uses movement, drama, creative expression, and somatic work to help participants explore what is difficult to access through language alone. She works with openness and emotional courage, creating a space that feels both grounded and alive—one in which participants can experiment, soften defences, reconnect with the body, and encounter themselves in new ways.
Details of this retreat
Where psychedelics can unlock the unconscious, psychoanalysis gives us the tools to decipher it. Together, they do double duty: one opens the hidden material, the other helps us understand the symbols, images, memories, and narratives that organise the way we see ourselves, others, and the world.
Psilara is a 5-day, small-group psychotherapy retreat in the Netherlands for people seeking intensive treatment for trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, recurring relational patterns, and other persistent psychological difficulties.
What distinguishes the programme is the integration of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy with psychoanalytic treatment. Psilocybin can bring previously inaccessible emotional and unconscious material into awareness; psychoanalysis provides the clinical framework for understanding what emerges, linking it to longstanding patterns, and working with it therapeutically rather than leaving it as an isolated experience.
Treatment combines psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted sessions, trauma-informed and somatic processing, clinical workshops, and extensive preparation and integration. The work is designed to identify and treat the unconscious patterns, conflicts, defences, and past experiences that continue to shape symptoms and behaviour.
The group size is limited to six participants to allow for close clinical attention throughout.
Psilara is a 5-day, small-group psychotherapy retreat in the Netherlands for people seeking intensive treatment for trauma, addiction, depression, anxiety, recurring relational patterns, and other persistent psychological difficulties.
What distinguishes the programme is the integration of psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy with psychoanalytic treatment. Psilocybin can bring previously inaccessible emotional and unconscious material into awareness; psychoanalysis provides the clinical framework for understanding what emerges, linking it to longstanding patterns, and working with it therapeutically rather than leaving it as an isolated experience.
Treatment combines psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychedelic-assisted sessions, trauma-informed and somatic processing, clinical workshops, and extensive preparation and integration. The work is designed to identify and treat the unconscious patterns, conflicts, defences, and past experiences that continue to shape symptoms and behaviour.
The group size is limited to six participants to allow for close clinical attention throughout.
Schedule
Day 1 – Arrival & Orientation
Afternoon: Arrival at 2pm, tea, settling into rooms, opening circle, and intention setting.
Late afternoon: Life Story work and first clinical workshop.
Evening: Dinner
Day 2 – Psilocybin Session 1
Morning: Breakfast at 8am, followed by embodiment, a clinical second workshop, and preparation for the psychedelic session.
Daytime: First psilocybin truffle session.
Evening: Landing, dinner, and the first facilitated integration circle. Day ends at 7pm.
Day 3 – Intensive Psychotherapy & Integration
Morning: Breakfast at 8am, embodiment practice, and a clinical psychotherapy workshop.
Daytime: Creative expression, reflective time in nature and journalling, followed by further clinical workshops and group process.
Evening: Dinner. Day ends at 7pm.
Day 4 – Psilocybin Session 2
Morning: Breakfast at 8am, embodiment practice, clinical preparation for the second psychedelic session.
Daytime: Second psilocybin truffle session.
Evening: Landing, dinner, and the second integration circle. Day ends at 7pm.
Day 5 – Integration & Closing
Morning: Breakfast, embodiment practice, and art therapy focused.
Midday: Final integration and closing circle. Day ends at 1pm.
Afternoon: Arrival at 2pm, tea, settling into rooms, opening circle, and intention setting.
Late afternoon: Life Story work and first clinical workshop.
Evening: Dinner
Day 2 – Psilocybin Session 1
Morning: Breakfast at 8am, followed by embodiment, a clinical second workshop, and preparation for the psychedelic session.
Daytime: First psilocybin truffle session.
Evening: Landing, dinner, and the first facilitated integration circle. Day ends at 7pm.
Day 3 – Intensive Psychotherapy & Integration
Morning: Breakfast at 8am, embodiment practice, and a clinical psychotherapy workshop.
Daytime: Creative expression, reflective time in nature and journalling, followed by further clinical workshops and group process.
Evening: Dinner. Day ends at 7pm.
Day 4 – Psilocybin Session 2
Morning: Breakfast at 8am, embodiment practice, clinical preparation for the second psychedelic session.
Daytime: Second psilocybin truffle session.
Evening: Landing, dinner, and the second integration circle. Day ends at 7pm.
Day 5 – Integration & Closing
Morning: Breakfast, embodiment practice, and art therapy focused.
Midday: Final integration and closing circle. Day ends at 1pm.
Note: Schedule is approximate and may change
Getting Here
Directions
The retreat takes place near Norg in Drenthe, Netherlands.
The closest airport is Groningen Airport Eelde (GRQ), approximately 11 km away and around 15 minutes by car. As this airport has limited international connections, most guests will find Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) more convenient. Schiphol is approximately 168–170 km from Norg, around 2 hours 10 minutes by car.
From Schiphol, guests can take a train to Assen, the nearest major railway station. The train journey is approximately 1 hour 55 minutes. From Assen, Norg is around 20–25 minutes by taxi or car, and local bus connections are also available.
Private airport or station transfers can be arranged at an additional cost. Guests who prefer to arrange their own travel will receive clear guidance on train, bus, and taxi options before arrival.
The closest airport is Groningen Airport Eelde (GRQ), approximately 11 km away and around 15 minutes by car. As this airport has limited international connections, most guests will find Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) more convenient. Schiphol is approximately 168–170 km from Norg, around 2 hours 10 minutes by car.
From Schiphol, guests can take a train to Assen, the nearest major railway station. The train journey is approximately 1 hour 55 minutes. From Assen, Norg is around 20–25 minutes by taxi or car, and local bus connections are also available.
Private airport or station transfers can be arranged at an additional cost. Guests who prefer to arrange their own travel will receive clear guidance on train, bus, and taxi options before arrival.
Accommodation
The retreat is hosted across two neighbouring private forest houses near Norg. With a maximum of six participants, every guest has their own private bedroom, allowing space for privacy, rest, and individual reflection throughout the retreat. The two houses provide a mixture of comfortable communal and private spaces, including warm living rooms, shared dining areas, kitchens, and outdoor terraces opening onto the surrounding woodland. Bathrooms are communal, while each private bedroom has its own wash basin for added convenience and privacy.
Program Price
Early Bird Registration
Venue & Amenities
A/C in Rooms
Free Wifi
Spa
Sauna
Pool
Towels
Free Parking
Kitchen
Tour Assistance
Hot Tub
Coffee/Tea
Cafe
Restaurant
Fitness Center
Yoga Studio
Housekeeping
Bicycles For Rent
The retreat is hosted across two neighbouring private forest houses near Norg. With a maximum of six participants, each guest has their own private bedroom, while the two houses provide generous communal spaces for meals, reflection, group work, and rest. Both properties open directly onto the surrounding woodland, with extensive walking and cycling routes nearby and the village of Norg only a few minutes away.
Meals
Menu Types
Vegan
Vegetarian
Pescetarian
Ayurvedic
Includes Meat
Organic
Gluten Free
Dairy Free
Nut Free
Fresh, nourishing meals are served throughout the retreat, with an emphasis on wholesome, balanced food that supports comfort, grounding, and sustained energy during intensive psychological work. The menu is predominantly vegetarian and vegan, with meals shared communally in a relaxed and restorative setting. Dietary requirements and allergies can be accommodated with advance notice.
What's Included
- 4 nights of private accommodation in the forest near Norg, Netherlands
- All fresh, nourishing meals and snacks throughout the retreat
- Pre-retreat psychological screening
- Two individual psychoanalytic psychotherapy preparation sessions before arrival
- One individual somatic processing session before arrival
- Two psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy sessions
- Legal psilocybin truffles for both psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy sessions
- Clinical psychotherapy workshops
- Somatic processing and nervous-system regulation practices
- Creative expression sessions
- Art therapy
- Facilitated integration circles and group therapeutic processes
- Reflective journalling and guided self-reflection
- Two individual post-retreat psychotherapy and integration sessions
- One post-retreat somatic processing session
- Option for ongoing psychotherapy afterwards
What's Not Included
- Airfare and other international or domestic travel to the Netherlands
- Airport or train-station transfers, unless arranged separately at additional cost
- Travel insurance
- Visa costs or other travel-document expenses
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