Gijs Tecklenburg

In guiding psychedelic sessions, all my experience and knowledge come together.

I have more than thirty years of experience as a trainer and therapist. My basis lies in regular mental health care where I worked as a practitioner in crisis intervention and psychotherapy and in my personal and professional spiritual training and development.

I started meditating when I was 19. Out of interest, but then mainly out of necessity. Because I was struggling with anxiety, panic and depressive symptoms at the time, I was desperately looking for a way out of that misery. Meditation brought me a lot and has remained a common thread in my life ever since. The experience of what it is like to feel completely trapped in fear and gloom has been particularly valuable later. Because I got to know that human experience of struggle and suffering from within early in my life, it helped me to develop a clear intuition and sensitivity to what is going on in someone.

In the years that I worked as a practitioner in mental health care, I was fortunate that I was also able to attend several long meditation retreats. Because meditation brought me so much good, I was looking for a way to combine meditation with therapy within my work. I therefore implemented mindfulness training within mental health care in 2006.

Since 2008 I have only worked from my own practice. In addition to individual psychotherapy and coaching, I have given hundreds of meditation group trainings such as mindfulness training and in-depth training (including compassion training, interpersonal mindfulness, ACT, Open Focus) and meditation retreats and workshops.