The Power of Dual Guidance: Why Working with a Shaman and a Psychologist in an Intimate Setting Changes Everything

​In today’s fast-paced world, healing often takes a backseat to survival. Most people are functioning with unprocessed trauma, chronic stress, and emotional disconnection. While traditional therapy helps, and plant medicine alone can open doors to deep spiritual insights, something profoundly life-changing happens when you combine the ancient wisdom of a shaman with the clinical grounding of a trained psychologist—especially in a private, intimate setting.

Why Both?

Shaman + Psychologist = Full Spectrum HealingHealing is not just mental. It's emotional, spiritual, somatic, and ancestral. Most conventional therapy focuses on the mind—talking through issues, reframing beliefs, and developing coping skills. But when you step into a psychedelic journey, you’re opening yourself up to much more than the conscious mind.
That’s where the shaman steps in.

A trained shaman understands the language of the soul. They know how to navigate altered states of consciousness, hold sacred space, guide energetic releases, and communicate with plant spirits. A true shaman doesn’t just give you answers—they help you remember who you are beyond the pain, the story, and the ego.

Now imagine having both that sacred energetic navigation and the stabilizing presence of a psychologist who is clinically trained in trauma, attachment, nervous system regulation, and post-journey integration.

You’re not just journeying—you’re transforming, safely and completely.

The Intimacy Factor: Why Small, Personalized Settings Matter

Many retreats today cater to 10, 20, even 50 people. While that model might work for some, the deepest healing requires intimacy, safety, and full presence.

When you work privately or in a small group setting (1-3 people max), you are seen. Heard. Held. Your trauma isn’t lost in the crowd, your tears aren’t muted by drums, and your breakthrough isn’t overshadowed by someone else’s release. You have a team who knows your story, your needs, and your soul’s blueprint—and they are there to walk with you through the entire process.

In this kind of space, there’s no pressure to perform. You can fall apart completely and know that you're being held by both the spirit world and the clinical world at the same time.

Clinical Experience Meets Sacred Ceremony

At Finally Detached, every retreat is co-facilitated by an initiated mushroom shaman (Gabriel Castillo) and a board-registered clinical psychologist (Yee Lin)—a rare pairing that bridges mystical experience and psychological grounding.

What does this mean for you?

• Safety: Your trauma is respected and handled with informed care.
• Structure: There’s a protocol before, during, and after your journey.
• Sacredness: Every session is treated as ceremony, not just therapy.
• Support: You’re not navigating visions and emotions alone—you’re guided and gently challenged when needed.
• Sustainable Change: Integration sessions after the retreat ensure your insights turn into real-world transformation.

Tailored for Transformation: You are not a number here.

Before your ceremony even begins, we take the time to understand your background, patterns, and emotional needs. Our pre-journey protocol includes nutritional prep, intention-setting, somatic coaching, and personalized guidance to ensure that when you finally sit with the mushroom, you are ready to receive everything it has to show you.

During the journey, you’ll have one-on-one (or two-on-one) support. And afterward, we guide you through integration sessions that include trauma release, somatic processing, journaling practices, and next-step planning.

It’s not just a retreat. It’s a rebirth.

• Working with a shaman and psychologist provides full-spectrum healing: spiritual and psychological.
• Private psilocybin retreats with dual guidance ensure safety, depth, and real transformation.
• The Finally Detached protocol combines ancient plant medicine traditions with modern mental health care.
• Psilocybin therapy in intimate settings outperforms large group models in depth, safety, and results.
• Psychedelic integration is enhanced when guided by trauma-informed professionals and sacred ceremony leaders.

Final Word: You Deserve This Level of Care

If you're someone who’s tried therapy but still feels stuck…
If you’ve sat with mushrooms but still haven’t had your breakthrough…
If you’re ready to finally face what’s blocking your expansion…
Then this kind of intimate, dual-guided experience may be exactly what your soul has been asking for. You’re not meant to do this alone.
You're meant to remember who you are—with sacred help.