Talk therapy and medications are effective anxiety treatments for some, but what can you do if these approaches don't work for you? You've probably asked yourself this question a few times already and bumped up against a few different answers, none of them very satisfying. A therapy retreat for anxiety will help you dive deep to focus on getting to the root of the problem.

Therapy retreats provide a more intensive approach to mental health issues than traditional therapy, as you will spend each day completely focused on healing your anxiety, with therapy being a daily activity, not just a weekly session. Retreats also provide teams of mental health professionals in a group setting, rather than relying on a solitary therapist for support. This holistic approach introduces a key element to overcoming anxiety, one of working through challenges with the help of other people while being warmly supported.

Unlike a typical weekly talk session, retreat programs specially tailor each day to build on the last, creating a rapid positive feedback loop. Beautiful, tropical settings nurture the experience even further by replacing office walls with natural environments. Combining this with around-the-clock support from a team of trained therapists. You'll gain powerful insights into underlying issues, develop new coping mechanisms, and learn to manage your anxiety more effectively.

More often than not, retreat guests are everyday people who struggle through mental and physical symptoms with a string of traditional psychiatrists and treatments before trying something different.

Sound familiar?

MycoMeditations is one of the longest-operating retreat programs of its kind in the world. Our retreat program has been developed from pioneering research and refined by our therapeutic team for years. We have utilized continual feedback both from guests and outside medical professionals to provide the most transformative experience possible to fit with your individualized treatment plans.

Our retreats revolve around three, deep-work therapeutic sessions followed by dedicated integration days that teach you to apply the personal insights from your sessions into your everyday life. When working with anxiety, we are able to help guests find the core of their issue in a way they never have before, process it, and work with them to overcome their personal challenges moving forward.

We understand what it means to struggle every day at the thought of social situations, or to feel like you're paralyzed when faced with making decisions and taking actions that others around you seem to accomplish with ease. Sometimes, even just the thought of trying to get help, of reaching out again only to risk failing and disappointing those around you, is the strongest trigger of all. Disrupting the spiral of rumination that can lead to palpitations, catastrophic thinking, sleepless nights or panic attacks is attainable. We can help you get there.

Utilizing a Western contemporary model with evidence-based approaches, our therapy retreats for anxiety are shown to maintain a significant reduction in anxiety symptoms for a year following your experience.

One month after their retreat, guests at MycoMeditations who suffered from Generalized Anxiety Disorder saw their anxiety reduced by an average of 69%. After six months, this fell to 53%. After a full year, their anxiety reduction levels averaged 59%. Social Anxiety sufferers saw an average 74% reduction in their symptoms after one month. After six months, this fell to 52%, with their anxiety levels reaching an average 39% reduction after one year.

So what is it about MycoMeditations that allows for people to have such long-term improvements in their daily lives?

The three sessions of our intensive, therapeutic 8-day retreats for anxiety utilize a unique method to catalyze these deep mental and emotional shifts: psilocybin mushrooms.

Who are we?

A lot of thoughts can come to mind when people think about taking psilocybin mushrooms. “Is that even legal? How will they help with anxiety? What if I have a bad trip? Can mushrooms make me go crazy?”

The fact that our retreat model has psychedelic mushrooms at its core may surprise you, but psilocybin is actually being studied extensively in current clinical research and creating significant buzz as a treatment for a number of chronic mental health disorders. Many of our guests and these study participants have called their sessions with mushrooms one of the most meaningful experiences of their lives.

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MycoMeditations has spent the past decade pioneering the field of psychedelic therapy retreats and has helped over 2,000 guests by administering over 6,000 doses of psilocybin. We host our retreats in Jamaica, where psilocybin mushrooms are also completely legal.

A therapy retreat for anxiety with MycoMeditations consists of three psilocybin dosing sessions on alternating days, which are integrated within group and private therapy settings on each of the non-session days. Your psilocybin experiences are closely tended to according to your individual needs by a team of skilled therapists and facilitators. These experiences can sometimes be challenging, but that's often when they end up being the most rewarding. Psilocybin therapy is also complemented by a variety of somatic and behavioral therapy techniques provided by our team.

Learn more about how our retreat model delivers lasting results for conditions such as anxiety and major depressive disorder.

Psilocybin mushroom therapy can help you overcome an anxiety disorder in a number of ways, one of which is by promoting neuroplasticity, which improves the brain's ability to create new connections within its neural networks. Because of this, there is also a period following a psilocybin experience where old, unhelpful patterns can be shifted more easily. Psilocybin also reduces activity in what's called the Default Mode Network, or DMN, which is responsible for your sense of self. Once this network is disrupted, there is a type of “reset” that occurs in which the thoughts and feelings with the most emotional charge are able to emerge. Memories and connections related to trauma and stressors can rise to the surface, allowing you the rare opportunity to process and heal the root cause of your anxiety.

You can learn more about the science behind psilocybin and explore our retreat's therapeutic outcomes for anxiety.

What do our guests say?

While psilocybin is not a panacea, “life-changing experience” is the most-used phrase on our TripAdvisor page.

Attending a psilocybin retreat can help you overcome anxiety and improve your quality of life. A participant in a MycoMeditations retreat, Joe, from Knoxville, Tennessee, shared: “To say that my experience at Myco was transformative would be an understatement. It was nothing short of a rebirth. I embarked on this journey with reservations and uncertainties, primarily due to my struggles with anxiety and depression that have cast shadows over my life for far too long that I never really thought there was any other way to live my life. However, from the moment I stepped into the embrace of the retreat, I felt a sense of safety, understanding, and warmth that I had not known in literally my entire life.”

Guests who attend our therapy retreats for anxiety report:

• Reduction in common symptoms: They find out what it's like to live without intrusive, negative thoughts and achieve a calm state of mind
• Increased social connection: They feel less anxiety when interacting with people, enriching their social lives
• Better mood: Their everyday state feels more naturally happy and joyous
• New insights and wisdom: They leave with a substantial understanding of how their past impacted them and what to do going forward

If you are interested in a healing journey with magic mushrooms, MycoMeditations offers guests the chance to experience psilocybin therapy retreats for anxiety legally, and safely in Jamaica. We host retreats year-round for up to 12 guests at a time and have three all-inclusive locations.

Apply for a MycoMeditations retreat today.

Or watch this video to learn more about MycoMeditations from our CEO & Head Facilitator, Justin Townsend.

MycoMeditations’ team members are experts in key therapeutic modalities that are growing in importance as psychedelics become more mainstream.

Depth and Transpersonal Psychology are demonstrating that altered states brought on by high doses of psychedelics open us up to previously inaccessible states of mind and have the potential to transcend our ideas of the self.

The somewhat confusingly named Internal Family Systems has little to do with family therapy. Rather, the name refers to the ability to familiarize yourself with and reconcile different aspects of the psyche.

There are many specific dimensions to mindfulness-based approaches, but the overarching goal at MycoMeditations is for you to gain an awareness of the contents of your mind, learning the ability to create space and become present enough to lean further into what comes up.

Finally, the body plays a strong role in storing trauma and allowing people to process life experiences for healing and growth. This is where somatic-based therapies come in. Individual bodies store and release trauma differently. Many of MycoMeditatons’ guests have been through a physical or sexual trauma and are likely to experience physiological and emotional responses to therapy.

MycoMeditations stands out from less rigorous wellness retreats thanks to our protocols. A multi-dose protocol over a weeklong retreat, with escalating doses finishing with a dose high enough to increase the likelihood of a mystical experience, is an important part of therapeutic outcomes. MycoMeditations retreats last eight days, with three doses given on alternating days.

We also embrace challenging experiences. When integrated properly, they are not to be avoided and can actually be highly rewarding. There is also an important distinction to be made between “bad” and “challenging” psychedelic experiences.

MycoMeditations offers therapy retreat programs that can help with a variety of mental health challenges of different levels of severity and relations to anxiety and panic disorders, including:

• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Major Depressive Disorder
• Eating Disorders
• Cluster Headaches

We are also a safe place to explore other aspects of your mental wellbeing not tied to a specific diagnosis, such as:

• Relationship issues
• Personal Growth
• Career Development
• Confidence
• Managing Stress

Fill out our pre-approval form today to start your application process.