Anxiety retreats: what they are and when one is worth it
Anxiety retreat can mean two different products: a wellness week, and a medical programme with a psychiatrist behind it. How to tell them apart before you book.
Sep 2026Reading on ketamine treatment and retreats
HIVE BIO writes about ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and about the retreat formats built around it: what a supervised week involves, how it differs from a wellness break, and what the clinical research says.
Checking whether this fits you
Start with a short check. You pick a time to talk it through once you’ve answered five questions.
Retreat formats
Five formats published this month, sorted by what they treat rather than where they happen.
Burnout retreat with a medical programme
A week off does not fix everything. What a medically supervised burnout retreat does differently, and how to check that before you pay.
Sep 2026
Depression retreats: what the word covers and how the formats differ
Depression retreat covers three different products under one name. What separates them, and who is still working with you a month later.
Sep 2026
Emotional trauma healing retreats: what an intensive week does
Weekly therapy has a rhythm that can keep the work from ever going deep enough. What changes in a compressed, supervised week, and who it is not for.
Sep 2026
Psychedelic therapy retreats: legality, supervision, cost
Where it’s legal, who is in the room while you’re dosed, and what happens if a session goes badly: three questions worth asking before you choose one.
Sep 2026How ketamine treatment works
The background reading behind those formats: the mechanism, the process, and the setting around a session.
What is Ketamine?
What is the mechanism of action? What are the clinical effects of ketamine, is it safe, and what are the contraindications to treatment?
2022
The Three Phases of Effective Psychedelics-Assisted Psychotherapy
The three-phase process of a psychedelic session as described by Timothy Leary and James Fadiman, two of the field’s early researchers.
2022
Set and Setting at HIVE BIO
What set and setting means for a psychedelic session, and how HIVE BIO shapes both during treatment.
2022
Three Naturally-Occurring Psychedelics and Their Significance in Mental Health Treatment
Psilocybin, ibogaine and DMT: the pharmacological properties and clinical benefits of three classic serotonergic psychedelics.
2022Ready to see if it fits you?
Five questions, then you pick a time to talk it through. Whether the programme suits you is decided later, at the medical assessment.