InwardBound Private Psilocybin Retreat Programme- Netherlands/ Costa Rica

Inwardbound Co-Founder

In his twenties he was one of Ireland's top whitewater kayakers, leading expeditions to most of the most remote locations on the planet, including Iran, the Himalayas and Ethiopia to name but a few.  He has 20 years experience guiding people in some of the most adventurous mountain and river environments on earth. As he evolved into a leading outdoor educator, he became convinced of the healing power of nature. After several near death experiences and the trauma of losing some of his friends to the river, Rob turned to Jungian psychology, yoga and meditation to rehab his body and mind. He has been practising yoga intensively since 2008, and teaching since 2015 when he trained as a Yoga Alliance Teacher (200 RYT) on Maui, He has also completed yoga and meditation trainings in Mexico, India, Guatemala and Spain.

• Graduate Diploma (Level 9) in Counselling and Integrative Psychotherapy (Dublin City University)
• BA (Hons)/ MSc (Trinity College Dublin)/ CEP (IEP Grenoble, France)
• Accredited Psychotherapist
• Transpersonal Therapist at the ICTSS
• Certificate in Jungian Studies with the Jung Centre
• Expanded Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychedelic-assisted Therapy: Trauma-focused ACT training
• Certificate in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy, California Institute of Integral Studies (enrolled 23/24 cohort)
• IFS (Internal Family Systems) for Psychedelic Guides training
• Professional member of MIND-  the European Foundation for Psychedelic Science (Berlin)
• Trained as a Wilderness Therapy Facilitator in the US
• Trained in Trauma Release Exercise (TRE)
• Professional experience as an Adventure Therapy facilitator in the US
• Experienced Holiotropic Breathwork practitioner
• MI qualified Mountain leader, 6000m peak trekking leader, international Class 5 river guide
• Qualified Shamanic Counsellor at the Irish Centre for Shamanic and Transpersonal Studies
• Yoga Alliance Teacher (200 RYT) , breathwork and meditative yoga teacher

Read more about Rob's own personal journey here:

A recent podcast with Rob on the Therapy Explained Podcast can be found here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2ZEXKrsukwklNKpLLIPXTC?si=tBaph2VfRFav_k_IQjyjWA

• B.A. Natural Sciences, Trinity College Dublin (2012)
• Ph.D. Plant Developmental Genetics, Trinity College Dublin (2018)
• Psychotherapy and Counselling Certificate  - QQI Level 6 IICP College Dublin Ireland (2023)
• Transpersonal therapist training - Irish Centre for Shamanic and Transpersonal Studies (2018-)
• Expanded Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Psychedelic-assisted Therapy: Trauma-focused ACT training (2022)
• Trauma incident recovery trained - TIR (pre-accredited) (2022)
• VTCT Diploma in Holistic Massage Therapy (2018)
• Co-Founder Psychedelic Brothers of Ireland (2018)
• Diploma Psychotropic plants, Centre of excellence
• Vipassana 10-day silent retreat (Bodh Gaya, India)
• Tushita 10-day silent retreat introduction to Buddhism (Dharamsala, India)
• Shamanic practitioner - Shamanism Ireland
• Shamanic Counsellor - Shamanism Ireland (2023)

Michael is a fully accredited psychotherapist (IACP, IAHIP, ICP Accredited, Msc. Clinical Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy) with an interest in CBT, Mindfulness, Humanistic, Psychodynamic, Existential and Transpersonal Therapy. Following extensive personal therapy conducted throughout training as a therapist, Michael discovered and cultivated an interest in plant medicines, transpersonal psychology and shamanic healing. He views them all as ground-breaking areas for the mental, emotional, physical and spiritual healing and advancement for all ready to answer the call.

Sophie-Charlotte Alice Adler, MSc, is a psychologist, hypnotherapist, researcher and author. She has specialised in working with altered states of consciousness since 2017 and has been supervising ketamine infusions at Instituto Dr. Scheib in Mallorca since 2018. In Autumn 2020 she built up a private practice for Dr. Scheib  in Berlin where Ketamine Therapy is offered. Ketamine (off-label use) is currently the only legally available and approved psychedelic substance. With the support of Dr Mario Scheib and Prof Revenstorf, Sophie Adler developed an innovative therapy method, the "Ketamine Hypnosis Package" (KHP).

Since 2018, she has accompanied over 400 ketamine infusions as a psychologist and hypnotherapist. In 2020, her book ""Altered States of Consciousness - New Paths in Psychotherapy? The Potential of the Psychoactive Substance Psilocybin“" was published by Carl-Auer in Germany.

She is the founder of ACSMINDWORKS - a group of specialists working on healing and states of consciousness in a variety of ways (www.acsmindworks.com). Sophie-Charlotte Adler is a member of the MIND Foundation as well as the KRIYA- Consultation Group with Dr. Raquel Bennett and Dr. Jessica Katzman in California.

Sophie will be lecturing on the Inwardbound Introduction to Psychedelic Therapy training progamme

Helena Angelini is a therapist with 19 years of professional experience. She is a psychologist who graduated at Universidade Fumec in Minas Gerais/Brasil, specializing in the Jungian Psychological approach. She has keenly continued education with various courses in Complementary Therapies, Mythology and has travelled all over the world looking to obtain broader and vaster perspective of human behaviour. As a psychologist, Helena has always strived to understand in depth the particular universe of each culture and each human being.

This passion granted her the ability to treat people of different ages, cultures and interests. She has clinical experience in Brasil (São Paulo and Minas Gerais), Ireland (Galway – working in the Triskel Center for the last year since she arrived in Ireland), and with clients all over the world treated on online sessions.

She has a wealth of experience dealing with depression and panic disorders, although she has worked with all varieties of psychological sceneries. She also has a special interest in athletes and wellness minded individuals, as she firmly believes in integration between mind and body.

The work with blocked expressions and repressed emotions takes a big part in treatment as well, since there is no wellness, wealth and integrality without the freedom to express the various parts of us. Helena realizes the importance of an integrated and balanced consciousness, especially in this challenging modern life, not only for psychologically disturbed people, but for anyone searching for a healthy life style. She takes pride in putting all of her knowledge and strength towards helping people and society achieve this goal.

​Services provided: Jungian Psychotherapy, Kinesiology, Reiki, Living Singing - medicine music. 

Nicky’s interest in nutrition was awakened when she travelled around the world and explored a huge variety of cuisines. On arriving back in Ireland, she made the decision to study Nutritional Therapy. Nicky was fascinated by what she learned about the connection between what we consume and our health. Having passed her Nutritional Therapy course with distinction she decided that she wanted to bring together her love for cooking and her knowledge of nutrition. When she came across Bauman College Holistic Nutrition and Culinary Arts School, she felt a deep calling from within, and decided to quit her job in the bank and move to Berkeley, California to continue her education. Here Nicky learned not only about nutrition but how to cook healthy meals designed to encourage optimal health and healing. These qualifications led her to set up her own successful business in the health food industry.

One of Nicky’s greatest challenges was starting up the fresh food deli in the well-known Dublin 6 health food store, the Hopsack, where she worked as head chef for 4 years. The culmination of her achievements there was nominated in the Irish Restaurant Awards 2018.

After Nicky’s time spent in the Hopsack, she decided to go on an adventure to Central America where she gained so much experience working as head chef at Farm of Life healing retreat centre in Costa Rica. Nicky learned a new way to live and heal, connecting to nature, practising yoga and meditation. She experienced wonderful openings working with plant medicines, including peyote, ayahuasca, psilocybin and cacao. She believes these are powerful tools to help open the heart, release blocks and emotions stored in the body, understand ourselves on a deeper level and awaken the compassionate, creative self for a more fulfilling, harmonious life.

Nicky’s other education includes NLP Coaching, Belief Clearing Practitioner, and is currently studying Vocal Therapy and Shamanic Trance Dance. Nicky believes these tools can help awaken our own inner healers. Nicky offers personal consultations, ceremonies and coaching sessions for mind, body and soul. Providing wellness coaching for women with HPV virus, gut issues and an unhealthy relationship with food. As well as giving nutritional advice and creating menu plans, she offers different practises to help let go of shame and fear to build self-love and acceptance so women feel empowered and confident to not only cook and eat healthy, but to step into their full potential to live the healthy life they truly desire. Nicky has shared cacao ceremonies in many countries around the world and continues to share this medicine with love and honour. Nicky also caters at retreats and hosts her own wellness retreats, workshops and ceremonies around Ireland throughout the year.

Nicky has been on many healing journeys herself. She overcame the unhealthy relationship she had with food for many years. She managed to heal her skin and digestive issues with a self tailored gut healing diet. She also struggled with HPV virus and cervical dysplasia for 14 years and had 2 hospital procedures to try eradicate abnormal cells on the cervix. She finally healed herself naturally living in nature at Farm of Life Costa Rica.

Nicky is now in her 2nd year working with Inwardbound having been on over 6 retreats with the team.

Education

Nutritional Therapist - Irish Institute of Nutrition and Health dipNT mNTOI 2007-2011

Natural Chef - Holistic Nutrition & Culinary Arts, Bauman College, Berkeley, California 2013

Plant Medicine Cacao Apprenticeship - Cacao Magic Costa Rica 2019

NLP practitioner certification- David Key - Accredited by The Institute of Training and Occupational Learning

Belief clearing practitioner - The Clearing Academy

Vocal Therapy - Nadabrahma Health Academy