A Human Approach to Health
We see health as more than the absence of illness. It is an ongoing process of becoming, connecting, and finding ways to live more fully. We bring together professional knowledge, embodied experience, and human connection, recognizing that there is no single path to wellbeing.
Health Beyond Pathology
The Human Encounter
Many Pathways to Wellbeing
We approach human suffering with curiosity and care, without reducing people to symptoms or diagnoses. Healing can mean not only finding relief, but also discovering new ways of relating to ourselves and the world.
How we meet one another matters. We value presence, attuned listening, and relationships that make room for each person’s experience. Our own humanity, uncertainty, and capacity to keep learning are part of how we care for others.
Wellbeing can be nurtured through many paths, including embodied practice, community, creativity, movement, nature, and expanded states of consciousness. We make room for difficulty and joy, reflection and play, and the sense of wonder or spirituality that can be part of being human.
The Team
Lisa Wessing (MSc)Â
A clinical psychologist whose work is grounded in a deep curiosity about human experience. Drawing on psychology, anthropology, and integrative psychotherapy, she combines humanistic, somatic, and mindfulness-based approaches, including Hakomi, Compassionate Inquiry, and Harm Reduction Psychotherapy. Her work with psychedelics began in harm reduction within recreational settings and evolved into substance use therapy, group facilitation in psychedelic retreats, and the development and delivery of professional training programs in psychedelic-assisted support. Her academic research includes phenomenological analysis of therapeutic processes in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Her learning within indigenous contexts allows for a comprehensive view upon the psychedelic field. Across her work, she seeks to bridge clinical knowledge, embodied experience, and diverse perspectives on what it means to be human.
Dr. Julia Javkin
A physician, psychiatrist, and acupuncturist who serves as a bridge between clinical medicine and somatic wisdom. Grounded in Gestalt therapy, her holistic approach weaves together movement therapy, somatics, acupuncture, and care with psychedelics, always guided by deep listening to the body. Through somatic techniques and embodied practices, she supports emotional healing, trauma integration, and the exploration of expanded states of consciousness. Her work bridges the rigor of clinical medicine with the wisdom of the body, offering a nonjudgmental space where each person is met exactly as they are.
Dr. Juan Paris
Studied to be a philosopher and then became a physician, psychiatrist, and psychotherapist, trained in adult and young people’s psychiatry. A Venezuelan currently based in Barcelona, he has worked across Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East, focusing on migration, violence, and trauma. His practice integrates general psychiatry, psychotherapy based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and the therapeutic use of expanded states of consciousness; he is trained in Augmented Psychotherapy and psychedelic integration. He works in Barcelona’s public health system with migrant populations, in psychedelic clinical research, and in his private practice. His interest is in working at the intersections and crossroads where human suffering occurs, and the intersections and crossroads where we find relief and healing.
Our team brings together experience working with psychedelics in legal therapeutic, research and retreat settings. Our backgrounds span psychiatry and medicine, academic research, hospital care, psychotherapy, somatic approaches, and learning within Indigenous contexts.
We bring these perspectives together with a shared commitment to ethical practice, harm reduction, safety, and critical engagement with scientific evidence.
Dr. Arturo Rodarte
Trained in allopathic western medicine, psychedelic assisted therapy as well as in Mexican indigenous healing practices, he is interested in the point where ancient wisdom and modern technologies converge and are able to support each other on behalf of health and well being. He believes that healing is an individual task, yet a collective effort, and therefore believes in the importance of supporting each other on the long journey of deconditioning the oppressive patterns of thought, as we transition from suffering to self realization.
Ohad Nave (MA)
A body-centered psychotherapist, somatic group facilitator, documentarist, and social activist. With a background in neuroscientific research on meditative self-dissolution, he is devoted to integrating experiential exploration, embodied presence, and improvisation into a life-affirming approach to personal and collective growth. Ohad is engaged in psychedelic facilitation for the open-ended exploration of expanded states of being, often drawing on expressive movement, Buddhist practice, and connection to nature. His creative work focuses on art and dance as vehicles for dialogue-building across socio-political divides.