The Àndala Journey Method
A clinically grounded, experiential psychotherapeutic method integrating depth psychology, art-based therapies, and embodied movement—designed for those seeking profound psychological transformation through intensive, residential work.
A Depth Approach for Work Beyond Words
The Àndala Journey Method was created to reach psychological material that is often inaccessible through talking therapy alone. Many individuals sense that what lives at the core of their difficulties is pre-verbal, symbolic, or held in the body. Our method provides a structured, clinically safe way to approach these deeper layers.
Across our intensives, therapy marathons, and residential intensives, we work with:
Unconscious processes
Symbolic and imaginal material
Pre-verbal experiences
Embodied and movement-based expression
Creative and non-verbal channels
This allows a multi-layered therapeutic process, engaging mind, body, and imagination together.
The Three Pillars of the Method
Together, these pillars create a comprehensive, immersive therapeutic method.
Depth-Oriented Psychotherapy
Rooted in clinical depth traditions, the method includes structured psychotherapeutic sessions that explore unconscious patterns, symbolic meaning, relational dynamics, and the emotional material that surfaces within the intensive setting.
Movement-based work enables the body to participate fully in the therapeutic process. This form of embodied exploration brings emotional states, implicit memories, and relational patterns into awareness through movement, rhythm, and somatic expression.
Art is used not as a technique, but as a mode of psychological access. Through drawing, image-making, and creative processes, participants encounter material that is difficult to articulate but readily expressed symbolically.
Embodied Movement and Somatic Exploration
Art-Based Therapeutic Methods
Why Intensives? The Power of Containment and Structure
The Àndala Journey Method is designed specifically for intensive therapeutic formats—residential therapy intensives and structured weekend marathons—because intensity creates the conditions for deep psychological work.
Intensives offer:
A sustained, uninterrupted therapeutic arc
The opportunity to work through resistances and defences more directly
Access to unconscious material that needs time and safety to unfold
A depth of emotional engagement not possible in standard once-weekly therapy
A psychologically robust container guided by experienced clinicians
In residential settings, we take care of all practical needs so participants can focus exclusively on their inner process.
Created Through Clinical Collaboration
The Àndala Journey Method emerged from the collaboration of three clinicians, each with a distinct yet complementary depth background:
One deeply rooted in analytical and depth-psychological traditions
One trained in Dance Movement Therapy and somatic process
One specialising in art-based and expressive therapeutic practice
Individually, each clinician has reached depth in their own modality. Together, they weave a structured, integrative method in which what emerges with one practitioner can evolve through the others.
This collaborative holding forms a rich, multi-perspectival therapeutic field.
Who This Method Is For
The Àndala Journey Method is especially suited for individuals who:
Want profound psychological work, not surface-level techniques
Feel that talking therapy is no longer enough
Sense there is more beneath the surface—unconscious, symbolic, or embodied
Seek a residential therapeutic intensives with structure and clinical depth
Want a breakthrough experience or a significant psychological reset
Are drawn toward experiential, creative, and embodied approaches
It is also appropriate for professionals in high-pressure environments who need a psychologically robust container for deep self-work.
Beyond Words: A Multi-Layered Descent
Psychological change often begins where language ends.
Our method offers a way to move:
from thinking to experiencing
from narrative to symbol
from interpretation to embodied awareness
from story to process
The integration of depth psychotherapy, creativity, and embodied practice allows different layers of the psyche to communicate with one another, opening new pathways to insight and transformation.
Therapy Marathons
