Healing Together: An MDMA-Assisted Therapy Session for Couples in Lake Atitlan

We are a nonprofit association offering legal, individual 1:1 psychedelic-assisted therapy sessions to those in need. MDMA-assisted couples therapy offers a path to profound intimacy, healing, and trust. MDMA (often called “the love drug”) enhances empathy, trust, and emotional openness, allowing couples to navigate difficult conversations without defensiveness or blame. This experience can help heal deep wounds by letting go of past conflicts land emotional barriers. It also enhances communication and allows participants to speak and listen with clarity, vulnerability, and compassion.

Our protocol primarily focuses on trust, as it is the cornerstone of lasting love and the essential foundation for a deep, enduring connection. By creating a safe and supportive environment, MDMA-assisted therapy allows couples to reconnect on a deeper level, fostering mutual understanding and emotional closeness.

Whether you’re seeking to heal old wounds, improve communication, or reignite the spark in your relationship, this therapy offers the possibility to build a stronger, more resilient bond. Many participants in clinical studies with MDMA have reported improved relational functioning—including greater emotional openness and empathy with partners,
increased emotional safety and bonding, enhanced communication skills, reduction in PTSD symptoms and relational distress. Couples report feeling more connected, empathic, and open after sessions. Preliminary findings suggest MDMA helps reduce defensiveness, help address attachment wounds and relational trauma, allowing both partners to engage more constructively with each other on challenging topics.

We are graduates of Somatic Plant Medicine Integration certification and have completed professional training in the Trauma-informed Plant Medicine Masterclass offered by Atira Tan. We are signatories of the North Star ethics pledge for psychedelic practitioners, guided by integrity and sincerity as foundational principles in our work.

Based on the standard protocol for clinical practice developed by Johns Hopkins University, Imperial College London, the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies and others, our sessions are conducted individually, in comfortable, quiet, cosy indoor environments, close to nature, with one or more monitors present at all times to offer non-intrusive, non-directive care and support. We invite individuals to embark on a long-term, multi-stage journey with us, in which the session itself is merely one phase.

Our approach is grounded in psychosomatic therapy and incorporates elements of Dr Peter Levine´s Somatic Experiencing, Dr David Bercelli´s Trauma Release Exercises, emotional release exercises from the Reichian tradition of body-based psychoanalysis, and breathwork-based methods of nervous-system autoregulation.