About me

Camilo Gallardo is a Jungian Psychotherapist with over eight years experience. He has a private psychotherapy and analytical psychology practice in Belsize Park.

Camilo was born in the US in 1965 to Chilean parents and moved to the UK in 1971.

While studying at Drama school in 1987 Camilo first began to work with Anne Mccaffrey, learning the methods of Ilana Rubenfeld, The metamorphic technique, family constellations by Hellinger and Macrobiotics as brought to the west by Michio Kushi.

Their friendship and deep work with trauma and recovery locked in the body continues to grow still today.

In 1989 Camilo moved to Los Angeles for 7 years to work as a successful actor in film. In 1990, he moved into the Kwan Um Zen Centre Los Angeles and took refuge with Zen Master Seung Sahn, the first Korean Zen Master to live and teach in the West.

In 1994 and again in 1996, Camilo travelled the Amazonian Jungle of Peru to facilitate in the work of his friend Shaman Hopi Elder Charles Lawrence to journey with Shaman Don Agustin Rivas. Camilo continues to work today with Charles Lawrence and Don Agustin's particular unique approach to working with the medicine and the power of sound to enact healing.

Camilo returned to the UK in 1996 and the integration of his experiences in the Jungle inspired him to train as a Jungian psychotherapist with the Guild of Analytical Psychology and Spirituality(GAPS) in London, where he is now a teaching member and supervisor.

In 2005 Camilo took refuge with the 17th Karmapa in Dharamshala.
In 2011 completed his 10th Vipassana retreat with S.N Goenka."

About my practice

Some reasons you might consider therapy..

It may be that you are having difficulties in your relationship – or in the fact that you don’t have a relationship.
Difficulties may come from your loss or bereavement, illness or other setbacks.
You may feel misunderstood, confused, depressed or anxious.
It may be that you feel disappointed with life – or that it feels impossible to find balance, direction or meaning.
You might have dreams which are troubling you – or which you wish to understand more deeply.
You might be suffering from a particular trauma – or It could be that the world seems a frightening and dangerous place.

Other people come because maybe

They want support whilst recovering from addictions.
They are suffering from compulsive behaviour, or obsessive thoughts and fantasies.
They want to find the meaning of a troubling physical symptom which they sense has a psychological cause.
They are trying to deal with the implications of physical or sexual abuse.
They want help in dealing with an eating disorder, or
They are suffering from identity problems.

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I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become." Jung

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More about my work

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