The Inwardbound Introduction to Psychedelic Assisted-Therapy Programme director is Inwardbound co-founder Rob Coffey. Rob is a fully accredited psychotherapist (MIACP/ MSc/ BA Hons) and transpersonal therapist. Prior to becoming a psychotherapist, he had many years experience co-ordinating educational courses and lecturing in the field of higher education up to University Honors degree level (Level 8) .

A TEDx speaker, activist, somatic trauma specialist, #1 Best Selling Author, and yoga teacher & group facilitator, Atira Tan, is a powerful agent of transformation and change. She has touched the lives of thousands of women, men, and children around the world, supporting them through her 15 years of experience in various somatic and creative trauma recovery approaches. Atira has worked as a trauma integration specialist at Temple of the Way of Light ayahuasca centre in Peru and is now Head of Integration at Aya Healing retreats.

Dr Darragh Stewart Phd is the co-founder of Inwardbound, and post-doctoral plant geneticist who will be covering the science of psychedelics in the Introduction to Psychedelic Therapy course. He will also cover different types of psychedelics, their history and their uses.

Martin is a jungian psychotherapist, who trained as a transpersonal therapist in Dr Stan Grof's holiotropic states of consciousness. He is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on celtic shamanism. Martin also spent 30 years working in the Irish psychiatric services, including some pioneering collaborations with legendary Irish psychiatrist and psychedelic pioneer Dr Ivor Browne, who was a contemporary and colleague of Dr Stan Grof.

Donca Vianu is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with more than 40 years work experience spread over different countries and cultures, of which 30 years in the Netherlands.

In the Netherlands she worked at governmental institutions for mental health and in her own practice.

As a psychotherapist, she is trained in various methodologies, with an emphasis on the hypnotherapy treatment of complex PTSD and intergenerational transmission of trauma, cognitive behavioural therapy, gender and relationship problems and transcultural aspects of mental problems.

She works with expanded states of consciousness employing Focusing (Eugene Gendlin) Hypnotherapy (Milton Erickson) and Active Imagination (Carl G. Jung, Gerald Epstein, Robert Moss.)

She is known in the Netherlands and Germany as highly skilled integration therapist for psychedelic experiences, in which she was a forerunner for many years.

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).

Declan Hammond is a homeopath, transpersonal therapist and shamanic practitioner, co-founder and former director of The Irish School of Homeopathy. His life and work has been a passionate search for the most effective healing tools for himself and his patients. This journey has taken him all over the globe studying Eastern and Western approaches to healing and traditional shamanic practices. Declan has developed a unique synthesis of these ancient and modern healing techniques and works with individuals and groups to empower deep personal growth and spiritual development.

Roberta Murphy is an Irish psychiatrist based in London. She is currently training as medical psychotherapist in South West London and St George's NHS Trust. She is a member of the Imperial Centre for Psychedelic Research. She worked as a study doctor and guide on PSILODEP II, a research trial investigating the use of Psilocybin for moderate to severe depression. In this trial she took a lead on screening of participants.She has helped to train other psychedelic trials in the UK and internationally. She has also guided on trials of healthy volunteers and psilocybin for eating disorders. Her research interests are around the role of the therapeutic relationship in psychedelic therapy. She is interested in alternative approaches to severe and enduring mental health issues, She has trained and works in Open Dialogue therapy, which offers a systemic-based approach to mental health crisis, and eco-therapy.

Graham has been interested in the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs since the late 1990s. This naturally evolved from his early interest in the interpretation of dreams, hypnosis and psychoanalysis.He qualified as a doctor in 2003 from the University of Birmingham and trained in psychiatry from 2006. In 2012, he was awarded an MSc in Neuroscience with distinction from Kings College London and focussed on the role of inflammation in the aetiology of depression. He worked as an NHS inpatient consultant psychiatrist from 2012 at Mill View Hospital in Hove and trained with Imperial College London in February 2018 to work as an assistant guide for the trial comparing psilocybin with escitalopram for depression.

Robert Krause, DNP, APRN-BC is Visiting Faculty at the Graduate Institute and a former faculty lecturer in the GEPN program at the Yale School of Nursing where he worked for the past 20 years. He has extensive experience in teaching including having taught courses at Western CT State University, Quinnipiac University, and the Yale School of Nursing. He coordinated the GEPN Clinical Psychiatric Nursing experience as well as lectured for Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing and a professional issues course. His research has involved using yoga, meditation, and other practices to decrease aggression in-patient psychiatric populations. Currently, he researches the use of psilocybin for depression and also maintains a private psychiatric practice treating most major psychiatric conditions with therapy and pharmacology.

Cristina Kalyani has over 25 years experience working in the healing arts, as a body worker, yoga teacher, sound healer, breath work teacher and hypnotherapist.

Her book ‘Beyond Yoga, Healing Arts for Extraordinary States of Consciousness’, is available here

Over the years, she has had an incredible capacity to meet and study with some of the leading teachers in the world in a variety of fields: Swami Satsangananda Saraswati at the Bihar School of Yoga and BKS Iyengar in yoga, Dolores Cannon and Dr Brian Weiss in hypnotherapy, the Grof Transpersonal Therapy (GTT) training in holotropic breathwork and transpersonal psychology.

She is currently deepening her study of Integral, Jungian and Transpersonal Psychology, and offers her unique perspective on non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing.

Henry Whitfield is an Association of Contextual Behavioural Science (ACBS) Peer-reviewed Acceptance and Commitment Therapy trainer, an Accredited Advanced TIR (PTSD therapy) Trainer, a Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist (MSc – CBT) and Visiting Research Fellow at Regent’s University – School of Psychotherapy and Psychology. He is a Phd candidate at the University of Maastricht in psychotherapeutic processes for psychedelic-assisted therapy. For over seven years Henry ran and supervised brief therapy for PTSD projects for Victim Support and Mind in London gun crime hot spots, using CBT and TIR.  

Henry has also trained over 1500 psychological therapists since 2003, supervising mental health professionals for ACT and Trauma work in the NHS. He is also a passionate integral thinker, publishing journal articles and book chapters on the integration of therapeutic models including, REBT-mindfulness, ACT-TIR-CBT, Person-centred-TIR. His psychedelic plant medicine path has changed how he does psychotherapy especially with self-concept issues. He has written, co-written and edited training manuals for ACT, TIR and FAP (relational psychodynamic). Now he focuses his research on the development of ACT-consistent models for psychedelic preparation and integration, with psychedelic process research for Regents University London. He is also author of a new model of psychological flexibility A Spectrum of Selves, tailored to a psychedelic therapy context published 2021 in Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Hailing from Hong Kong, WaiFung is a Clinical Psychologist with years of clinical experience primarily in the field of addiction, neurodevelopment and trauma, exhibiting a keen interest in psychedelic research.

Currently based at the Maudsley Hospital, King’s College London, he has been working as a core member of the Onaya Science team as a researcher statistician and psychologist for a number of years.

With a particular focus on Indigenous Amazonian traditions, he has supported projects exploring ceremonial use of Ayahuasca in the rainforest for mental health as funded by the British Medical Research Council, as well as working alongside Heroic Hearts, an organisation using psychedelic treatments supporting veterans with PTSD.

WaiFung is also an avid musician who enjoys honing sound-healing techniques, and does psychedelic harm reduction work with UK based charity PsyCare.

Dr Simon Ruffell is a psychiatrist, ayahuasca researcher, and student of curanderismo.

Since 2015 Dr Ruffell has been working closely with Indigenous communities in the Amazon basin, exploring the effects of the traditional psychedelic brew ayahuasca and the role of ceremony and spirit in healing.

Dr Ruffell’s work encompasses two paradigms: the spiritual and the scientific. He is committed to working alongside the Shipibo-Konibo people to translate knowledge of Amazonian plant medicines, where possible, into scientific data and terminology whilst ensuring traditions are respected.