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Patrycja
Having a rich background in the clinical field, including a master’s degree in Psychology, experience helping people with lifelong conditions such as Parkinson Disease, Dementia, Brain Injury, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Personality Disorders, and Addictions.She followed two postgraduate trainings in psychology; one in Psychological Therapies and Neuroscience and one in Mindfulness. Other relevant experience comes from the counselling field, supporting youths, ex-offenders, people who experience homelessness, substance misuse, foster care and domestic violence but also with couples and families. She has worked with people who struggle with depression, anxiety, eating disorders and complex trauma. Her work has helped Patrycja deepen her understanding of the complexity of the needs of various kinds of patients and to see what it really takes to develop higher levels of strength and determination to be ready to move on and make a change in our lives.Patrycja’s experience coaching and mentoring manager’s level staff allowed her to develop a broad range of tools for supporting peak performance, creativity, stress resilience and emotional intelligence in human interactions.Her approach is guided by many models and trainings; including Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Mindfulness, Mind-body approaches, Somatic therapy, Polyvagal theory, Brainspotting, Deep brain reorienting, Neurofeedback, Internal Family System and Hakomi therapy. These tools help to identify negative core beliefs, negative patterns of behaviour and mind traps and allow people to develop emotional regulation skills and to discover potential, strength and wisdom in themselves.Having been trained at King’s College London and Queen Mary University, Patrycja has a high level of academic training and is equally at home in an academic as in a therapeutic setting.
Patrycja has experience working with patients with psychological crisis and trauma.When MAPS first came to Europe in 2018 to train representative local therapists for the European part of the trial for MDMA assisted psychotherapy for PTSD, Patrycja was fortunate to be invited to follow the training which was a great opportunity for her, not only to learn from two highly respected and experienced trainers in the field of therapy assisted by psychedelic states (Michael and Annie Mithoefer) but also sparring with professionals of different fields related to the study and learning from extreme clinical case examples.
Coen
Also has a scientific background as he has studied physics as well as having studied design, which added a more right-brained development.
His main strength comes from his experience working with psychedelic states. First at an Ayahuasca retreat centre in the Netherlands where he received training and the chance to really develop his skills at sitting with people in powerful transformational experiences. This was an amazing environment to learn and develop and he guided many groups, allowing him to learn from hundreds of different experiences while being part of diverse teams of sitters and ceremony leaders. These basic space holding skills form the solid basis and are still the core of his approach to healing.
When Patrycja and he met and started working together, she was (apart from much more) a great partner in solidifying and professionalising his skills. Which they did together as they trained in Hakomi and IFS and traveled the world together for workshops, trainings and conferences, while working on their own personal growth and with their clients. Over the years his training has covered areas that include IFS, Hakomi, Couples work, Neurofeedback, Holotropic Breathwork and the MAPS approach.
In the mean time he was invited to join the UK based PHP Network as one of the founding members. This is a self organised (and evolving) group of mental health professionals who have decided to prepare for the (obvious) coming medicalisation of psychedelics. With PHP he trained, teaches and guides group retreats in the Netherlands while learning from collaborating with psychiatrists, doctors, nurses, councellors and the retreat participants.
Over the years Coen has developed into a highly experienced psychedelic guide and therapist with a deep capacity to sit with you through your experience, whatever it may bring. Meeting you where you are and guiding you with the ability to resist the seductive impulse to take you away from the difficult processes that you may need to face.
We both
share a passion for self development and personal growth; not just with the help of psychedelics, some of our most profound experiences have come from facing and staying with our own pain with the loving support of the other. We are both in training to become Hakomi Somatic Mindfulness based therapists, a method that is aimed at working with our subconscious material making it ideal for working with psychedelic experiences.
We both have a strong international mindset, with Patrycja having lived and worked in Poland, the US, Ireland, the UK and Holland. And Coen having lived in Curacao, Malaysia and Holland. Almost all of our trainings and the workshops we have done have been international ones and the vast majority of our clients are international.
We also have three cats who we love much more than we could ever imagine.
Trainings
Patrycja
2025 Brainspotting training Levels 1,2 & 5
2025 Nervous System Certification Couse by Jessica Maguire
Trauma sensitive nervous system regulation training
2025 EEGER Neurofeedback professional practitioner training
2025 IFIO Intimacy from the inside out (basic training #1265)
An Internal Family Systems therapy based couples therapy training
2024 - 2025 Introduction to Coherence Therapy training (USA)
2024 Deep Brain Reorienting therapy training, level 1 (UK)
2024 Coherence Oriented Relational Experiential Therapy training
by Tory Olds
2023 Foundational Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) Training
by Stephen Porges
2022 Grof Legacy Training, Psychedelic experiential (first level)
2021 Introduction to Somatic Internal Family System
2019 - 2020 Certification in Mind- Body therapies
Embodying Philosophy Institute (USA)
2018 - 2023 Hakomi Mindfulness based Somatic Psychotherapy
professional training (with the Hakomi Mallorca branch)
2018 - 2021 Internal Family System training levels 1,2,3 (final)
Poland, Spain, USA
2018 MAPS MDMA assisted therapy training for therapists (NL)
lead trainers: Michael and Annie Mithoefer
2017 Certificate in Clinical Hypnosis
London School of Clinical Hypnotherapy (UK)
2014 - 2015 PgDip in Mindfulness and Neuroscience:
Neuroimaging and Clinical Application
King’s College University (UK
2014 NVQ Level 3 in Health and Social Care
(Children & Young People) : Autistic Spectrum Disorder Cardiff (UK)
2011-2013 Mental Health: Psychological Therapies - Postgraduate training
Queen Mary University of London,
Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine (UK)
2002 - 2008 University of Social Science and Humanities, Warsaw
Degree: (MSc) (PL)
2009 Prodeste - Training Centre and Clinic
for People with Specific Developmental Disorders
Certificate in Diagnose and Therapy of
Specific Developmental Disorders (Autistic Spectrum Disorder)
2007 - 2008 Voluntary research group
Warsaw Medical University, Department of Neurology
Searching early marker of familiar and idiopathic form
of Parkinson disease
2003 - 2008 Voluntary research group
University College “Warsaw School of Social Science
and Humanities” (SWPS)
School of Psychology - Dyslexia and Autism – Solution for Education
Workshops
2025 Better Together weeklong psychotherapy training retreat
By Lori Marchak (an IFS and EFT inspired training)
2024 Radical Love; a Couples and Sexuality retreat With Nancy Wonder
2024 Heart Lessons Of the Journey deepening retreat With Cece Sykes 2023 Getting to the Heart of the Matter IFIO and Couples retreat
With Toni Herbine-Blank
2023 Internal Family Systems therapy Deep Healing of Exiles Retreat
An IFS intensive with Richard Schwartz
2019 The integration of psychedelic experience workshop
by the Mind foundation
2018 Hakomi psychotherapy tools for self- exploration (ES)
Coen
2026 MAPS training Switzerland
lead trainers: Marcella Ot’Olara and Bruce Poulter
2026 Holotropic Breathwork training module (on the Holotropic paradigm)
In Poland with lead trainer Sitara Blasco
2025 EEGER Neurofeedback professional practitioner training
2025 IFIO Intimacy from the inside out (basic training #1265)
An Internal Family Systems therapy based couples therapy training
2021 Internal Family Systems therapy lvl.2 Trauma & Neuroscience #750
2020 Internal Family Systems therapy lvl.1 #530
20202 - 2022 2-year, monthly PHP peer-led training.
This training was a peer-led psychedelic facilitator training where the
participants (doctors, therapists, researchers, psychologists) would take responsibility to research and teach the topics that were deemed
Required. This included practical guiding experience.
2018 - 2023 Hakomi Mindfulness based Somatic Psychotherapy
professional training (with the Hakomi Mallorca branch)
Workshops
2025 Better Together weeklong psychotherapy training retreat
By Lori Marchak (an IFS and EFT inspired training)
2024 Radical Love; a Couples and Sexuality retreat With Nancy Wonder 2024 Weeklong MDMA experiential facilitator training retreat pilot
This was a closed, 12 person peer group facilitator training
focussed on experiential learning and experience sharing.
2024 Heart Lessons Of the Journey deepening retreat With Cece Sykes 2023 Getting to the Heart of the Matter IFIO and Couples retreat
With Toni Herbine-Blank
2023 Internal Family Systems therapy Deep Healing of Exiles Retreat
An IFS intensive with Richard Schwartz
2019 The integration of psychedelic experience workshop
by the Mind foundation
Relevant experience includes
Founding partner and therapist at TSS
Facilitator and founding member of the PHP Network
Trainer/facilitator at an weeklong experiential MDMA training retreat
Program Assistant for 6 different lvl.1 and Lvl.2 IFS trainings
Facilitator at a BTA British Transpersonal Association retreat
Co-organiser and facilitator for two retreats with
the Psychedelic Society of the Netherlands
Facilitator at the Sacred Voyage