Gabriele Cotronei

I have served a diverse range of clients in residential treatment, nursery school
children and their families, community behavioral health, supervisory roles,
neuropsychiatric rehabilitation and people with disabilities, and a specialized
public mental health taskforce which supported multiple diagnosis families.

I’ve served as retreat faculty and co-lead for the Synthesis Institute and as a
consultant in Psychedelic Assisted Therapy for several retreat centers and clinics
worldwide. My background bridges psychoanalytic training at the Tavistock
Institute, somatic and trauma therapy, DBT, hypnotherapy, Neurodynamic
Breathwork, and Body Psychology and Body Psychotherapy.

I’m moving towards a Jungian Analytic Psychology training by undertaking a
second psychoanalysis. My work is also deeply informed by work with
intercultural medicine healing traditions, indigenous cosmologies,
ecopsychology, and the study of ritual as a language of the soul.

This is also wonderfully coming alive in my work as a psychotherapist and
researcher at the Nierika Institute, where all of these paths unite in a profound
understanding of what comes after the insight or the breakthrough.

Here, the deep reciprocity and mutual nurturing with those who, generation after
generation, carry forward their ancestor’s lineages of relating with the
biocultures of plant medicines, is fostered by sharing language, memory, dance,
and paths to healing.