About Gijs
My path as a therapist began over 40 years ago in mainstream mental health care.
During those years, I worked intensively with people in crisis, with trauma, anxiety and existential questions.
At the same time, a second track was always running.
A deep personal practice of meditation
What began as a way to deal with anxiety and gloom myself grew into a lifelong commitment to inner development and healing.
That combination of professional therapeutic experience and meditation is still at the core of my work.
Every person carries within them a capacity for healing and clarity. Sometimes it just needs the right bedding. With professional experience and attentive presence, I help you to meet that space in yourself again.
From mental health to in-depth training and awareness work
During my years in the mental health sector, I followed long meditation retreats alongside my work and immersed myself more and more in consciousness development. In 2006, I brought mindfulness training into the GGZ in ’s-Hertogenbosch to structurally integrate meditation into treatment. Not much later, I fully opted for my own practice. Since then, in addition to individual therapeutic work, I have given hundreds of trainings 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 body and mind. From that open attention, more peace, clarity and resilience often arise naturally. My work was further deepened by years of study and time with my spiritual teacher Mooji. The resulting insights have permanently changed my view on therapy and counselling.
Psychological expertise and spiritual bedding
Within mainstream mental health care, there is often a strong emphasis 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 primarily complaint-oriented work to counselling that also focused on awareness, self-compassion and developing inner space.
My counselling 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 mindfulness (with the founders: Jon Kabat-Zinn and Saki Santorelli), mindfulness & psychotherapy (Ronald Siegel), ACT, MBCL compassion training, Interpersonal Mindfulness, art coherence training, EMDR, walking coaching, breath work, Open Focus (Les Fehmi, Princeton) and neurofeedback (Zengar and Othmer method), among others.
Psychedelic therapy as a deepening process
My first guided psychedelic session felt like a deep inner clearing. I was able to really meet, embrace and also let go of parts of myself. That experience showed me how powerful this form of guidance can be when combined with preparation, safety and integration.
Therefore, I continued my education in this and gained a lot of experience with different agents, 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 have to
As I sat towards retirement, I let my BIG registration expire. I thought my period of individual therapy was over. But when I discovered psychedelic therapy, I found it an immensely valuable approach and started to get into it
deepen. In counselling psychedelic therapy, I noticed again how valuable in-depth therapeutic support can be. That is why I now once again accompany individual pathways around psychedelic sessions.
Being retired, I now work selectively. I only do work that I find truly meaningful and that I can be present with full attention. This also means that I am not available all year round.
Security, preparation and integration
A psychedelic session is not a stand-alone experience. It is a process that starts with preparation and only gains real value through integration into daily life and training. This is why we pay attention to intention, expectations and practical preparation beforehand. Afterwards, there is room to translate insights into your daily life.
Reviews psychedelic sessions with Gijs
By reading the reviews about Gijs, you can get a better idea yourself whether Gijs as a facilitator of your psychedelic session suits you. It is also nice to read these reviews to get an idea of what can be experienced during a psychedelic trip and how Gijs guides it. Use the button below to read all the reviews on Gijs.
Contact Gijs
Would you like to connect first before booking a session with Gijs? That's very understandable! You can contact Gijs via 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
Sessions can take place at your home or in accommodation rented by you in the ’s-Hertogenbosch region. This includes cities such as Utrecht, Zaltbommel, Nijmegen, Oss, Uden, Best, Eindhoven, Tilburg and Breda. Keep in mind that my maximum travel time is one hour. Outside rush hour, this can be more kilometres than inside rush hour. So I like to take that into account when planning. In addition, the rate is 50 cents per kilometre. The distance is calculated from and to the zip code 5231EK.
But you can also use my own space for training and therapy: The Bedding. This is a quiet place with complete privacy that is also set up for these sessions. Afterwards, it is possible to spend the night there. This allows the experience to land in peace.
Sessions and ceremonies in The Bedding
At the location the Bedding in Den Bosch, you are well connected to the water. This ark can accommodate up to four people. You can book a private session here or join the group ceremonies organised here. Overnight stays are possible at this waterfront location.
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 conduct sessions in Dutch (mother tongue), English and German. Should you not be able to speak these languages, you may consider bringing an interpreter for a private session.
The price may vary depending on the options chosen. The basic price for the intake, preparation advice, preparation session, psychedelic session and integration session is 850 euros or 1350 euros for duo sessions. For sessions at people's homes, travel expenses are added. Click here for the price calculation on site. For sessions at the De Bedding location, the location fee is added 200 euros).
Gijs Tecklenburg supervises psychedelic sessions at the client's location within a radius of about one-hour travel time from ’s-Hertogenbosch. In doing so, he applies 50 cents per kilometre travel costs 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 (e.g. a hotel, Airbnb or holiday address) in cities and regions that fall within that travel time. Examples of places that may fall under 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.