John Sandblom

Growing up in Scandinavia I grappled, among many things, with a sensed cultural ambivalence on conformity vs social freedoms, and the felt suppression of the uniquely weird and eccentric. Slowly embracing my own outsider/sensitive characteristics (whether seen through gender/sexuality prisms, consciousness exploration, or subcultural leanings) I clarified my sense of professional devotion through my years studying and practicing psychology and later psychotherapy during my near decade in Scotland - I simply yearned to support people in encountering and welcoming their authentic self/selves! Ready for the next chapter, I moved to Berlin to reconnect with family, creative contexts and expand my passion for the therapeutic profession. I have since completed training in psychedelic integration therapy, and currently co-facilitate psychedelic integration workshops alongside my private practice. These structures and processes seem increasingly important to me, as more people seek alternative routes to the traditional western model of healthcare

My deep curiosity in people includes the unique ways in which we move and experience ourselves in relation to others, and how we draw meaning from and shape what life throws our way. Many of the answers to our implicit or explicit questions seem available if we're just allowed to take the time to get in contact with the nuances in our feelings and sensations, and receive support in their symbolisation. Simple, and yet so difficult, and as cliché as it sounds I really believe that self-connection is all about the process, a journey, for which therapy can be very valuable, if not life-changing

Other interests that all somehow mingle with my therapeutic self include club culture, yoga, sound and visual art, spirituality and methods of altering our subjective states, sexuality and relationship dynamics, political philosophy and participatory culture