Over Gijs
My journey as a therapist began more than forty years ago in conventional mental healthcare.
In those years, I worked intensively with people in crisis, with trauma, anxiety, and existential questions.
At the same time, a second track always ran alongside.
A deep personal meditation practice
What started as a way to deal with anxiety and depression myself grew into a lifelong commitment to inner development and healing.
That combination of professional therapeutic experience and meditation still forms the core of my work.
Everyone carries within themselves the capacity for healing and clarity. Sometimes that simply requires the right container. With professional experience and attentive presence, I help you to encounter that space within yourself once more.
From mental healthcare to advanced training and consciousness work
During my years in mental healthcare, alongside my work, I attended long meditation retreats and delved ever deeper into the development of consciousness. In 2006, I introduced mindfulness training to the mental healthcare service in ’s-Hertogenbosch to systematically integrate meditation into treatment. Not long after, I chose to dedicate myself fully to my own practice. Since then, alongside individual therapeutic work, I have given hundreds of training courses and retreats, including mindfulness, ACT, compassion training, Interpersonal Mindfulness, and Open Focus. Open Focus is a method that helps to broaden attention, release tension, and experience more space in both body and mind. From this open attention, a greater sense of calm, clarity, and resilience often arises quite naturally. My work was further deepened by years of study and time spent with my spiritual teacher Mooji. The insights that emerged from this have permanently changed my perspective on therapy and guidance.
Psychological expertise and spiritual foundation
Within standard mental healthcare, the emphasis is often heavily on cognitive approaches. In my experience, understanding alone is not enough. Psychological patterns also want to be felt and lived through. In addition, change requires actual training.
The focus shifted from predominantly symptom-based work to guidance that is also aimed at awareness, self-compassion and developing inner space.
My coaching may include elements of:
- Mindfulness and meditation
- Compassion training
- ACT (Acceptance & Commitment Therapy)
- Breathwork and gentle body-oriented exercises
- Non-dual psychotherapeutic approaches, including the principles of IFS
My professional background is supported by training in, amongst other things, mindfulness (with the founders: Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli), mindfulness & psychotherapy (Ronald Siegel), ACT, MBCL compassion training, Interpersonal Mindfulness, heart coherence training, EMDR, walking coaching, breathwork, Open Focus (Les Fehmi, Princeton) and neurofeedback (Zengar and Othmer methods).
Psychedelic therapy as a deepening process
My first guided psychedelic session felt like a deep inner cleansing. I was truly able to meet, embrace and also let go of parts of myself. That experience showed me how powerful this form of guidance can be when it is combined with preparation, safety and integration.
That is why I have further educated myself in this area and gained a lot of experience with various substances, dosages and microdosing. My approach combines therapeutic professionalism with an open, down-to-earth and non-
forcing spiritual attitude. No quick fixes, but sustainable change.
Working from choice, not from obligation
When I was approaching retirement, I let my BIG registration lapse. I thought my period of individual therapy was over. But when I discovered psychedelic therapy, I found it to be an immensely valuable approach and I began to retrain in it
Deepening. During the guidance in psychedelic therapy, I noticed once again how valuable in-depth therapeutic support can be. That is why I am once again guiding individual trajectories surrounding psychedelic sessions.
Since I am retired, I now work selectively. I only do work that I find truly meaningful and to which I can give my full attention. That also means I am not available all year round.
Safety, preparation and integration
A psychedelic session is not a standalone experience. It is a process that begins with preparation and only truly gains value through integration into daily life and training. That is why we pay attention to intention, expectations and practical preparation beforehand. Afterwards, there is space to translate insights into your daily life.
Reviews of psychedelic sessions with Gijs
By reading the reviews about Gijs, you can get a better idea of whether Gijs is a good fit as a guide for your psychedelic session. It is also enjoyable to read through these reviews to get an idea of what can be experienced during a psychedelic journey and how Gijs guides it. Use the button below for all reviews about Gijs.
Contact Gijs
Would you like to connect first before booking a session with Gijs? That is completely understandable! You can get in touch with Gijs using one of the options below. For telephone contact, if there is no answer, it is best to send me a message via WhatsApp, Telegram or email.
Book a psychedelic session with Gijs
The sessions can take place at your home or in accommodation hired by you in the ’s-Hertogenbosch region. This includes cities such as Utrecht, Zaltbommel, Nijmegen, Oss, Uden, Best, Eindhoven, Tilburg and Breda. Please bear in mind that I maintain a maximum travel time of one hour. Outside of peak hours, that can be more kilometres than during peak hours. I am therefore happy to take that into account with the planning. In addition, the rate is 50 cents per kilometre. The distance is calculated to and from the postcode 5231 EK.
However, you can also make use of my own training and therapy space: De Bedding. This is a quiet place with complete privacy that is also equipped for these sessions. Afterwards, it is possible to stay overnight there, allowing the experience to sink in peacefully.
Sessions and ceremonies in De Bedding
At the De Bedding location in Den Bosch, you are well connected to the water. This houseboat is suitable for a maximum of four persons. You can book a private session here or join the group ceremonies that are organised here. Overnight stays are possible at this waterside location. (Temporarily no venue fees)
You can read more about the location de Bedding in ‘s-Hertogenbosch or book a session/ceremony using the buttons below.
Frequently asked questions about Gijs
Gijs can facilitate sessions in Dutch (mother tongue), English and German. If you are unable to speak these languages, you might consider bringing an interpreter along for a private session.
The price may vary depending on the chosen options. The base price for the intake, preparation advice, preparation consultation, psychedelic session and integration consultation is 850 euros or 1350 euros for duo sessions. Travel costs will be added for sessions at people's homes. Click here for the on-site pricing calculation. There is no extra charge for the sessions at the De Bedding location and you can stay overnight for free.
Gijs Tecklenburg facilitates psychedelic sessions at the client's premises within a radius of approximately one hour's travel time from ’s-Hertogenbosch. He uses this approach in doing so 50 cents per kilometre travel expenses from and back to postcode 5231EK (Den Bosch).
In concrete terms, this means that he can come to your home or to accommodation you have rented (for example, a hotel, Airbnb or holiday address) in towns and regions that fall within that travel time. Examples of places that may fall within his working area include: ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Breda, Tilburg, Eindhoven, Uden, Oss, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Zaltbommel, Waalwijk, Best, Zutphen, Arnhem, Vught, Rosmalen, Boxtel, Schijndel, Veghel, Helmond, Geldrop, Oisterwijk, Drunen, Heusden, Cuijk and Wijchen.