Meet The Team
At The Reconnection, we believe healing and transformation unfold through safety, connection, and skilled guidance. We are a female-led, trauma-informed team who brings together science, somatics, and sisterhood to walk beside you with love, care, and warmth, holding space for you to journey inward, reconnect with your true essence, and remember your place within the wider web of life.
Co-Founder, Psychiatrist, Psychedelic Therapy Guide & Facilitator
Lauren walks between the worlds of science and spirit, drawing on her background as a medical doctor with training in psychiatry, integrative medicine, and holistic, earth-based wisdom traditions. She has guided participants in psilocybin clinical trials at the Centre for Psychedelic Research, Imperial College London, and facilitated psilocybin retreats in legal settings across the globe. She also trains doctors and therapists in safe, ethical, and heart-centred psychedelic-assisted therapy.
At The Reconnection, Lauren brings presence, grounding, and a deep trust in each woman’s innate healing intelligence. She holds group processes - sharing circles, authentic relating, and ceremony - creating spaces that are relational, embodied, and expertly held. Her work is an offering: an invitation to reconnect with your inner wisdom, remember who you are, and open to the beauty and mystery of life.
Lauren Macdonald
Laura Wilkes
Co-Founder, Yin Yoga and TRE Teacher, Acupuncturist
Laura is a women’s health expert, yin yoga teacher, and TRE practitioner, currently training as an acupuncturist. She takes a body-first approach to healing, weaving the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine through all of her teachings to create an integrative and deeply embodied approach to wellbeing.
After leaving the high-pressure, masculine corporate world, Laura began exploring women’s health and holistic healing. Her journey has taken her across the globe, travelling and working on retreats, and spending four years in Bali managing the holistic healing and retreat programs at The Yoga Barn.
On The Reconnection, Laura shares TRE, embodied yoga, and joyful dance to help you fully inhabit your body as part of your healing journey. Her teaching is both gentle and powerful, inviting you to soften, regulate your nervous system, release what your body has been holding, and reconnect with the feminine energy so often suppressed in our modern, fast-paced lives.
Mary Bonett
Somatic Therapist, Yoga Teacher, Vocalist & Psychedelic Guide
Mary is an integrative somatic therapist, yoga teacher and psychedelic guide, with over a decade’s worth of experience working on retreat and with people in recovery from physical and emotional trauma, survivors of domestic and sexual violence, those struggling with substance misuse and facing mental health challenges.
As part of The Reconnection programme she shares theory and practices for nervous system regulation, including voice and breath work, and of course movement practices - all from a trauma-informed lens.
Mary brings her light, bright humour, wisdom, care and love to The Reconnection. She offers 1:1 Somatic Experiencing sessions during the retreat (limited spaces) and pre and post retreat support.
Rebecca Mbonga
Sound Healer, Breathwork Practitioner & Plant Medicine Facilitator
Rebecca is passionate about guiding others through inner exploration and transformation. Drawing on her experience with sound, breath, meditation, and plant medicine, she supports others in reconnecting with their innate wisdom and capacity for healing.
Her time working at the Ayahuasca Foundation in Peru offered a profound immersion into the healing potential of plant medicines. She is also trained in yoga, sound healing, psychedelic-assisted therapy, and NeuroDynamic Breathwork. Rebecca brings a grounded, loving, and joyful presence to The Reconnection.
Camilla Schröder
Musician & Ceremony Support
Camilla is a Danish singer-songwriter and photographer based in Portugal. After a career in journalism, she moved to Aljezur in 2019 to live closer to nature and make more space in her life for self-discovery, community and creative expression. Along this journey, she met Mary and together they share their magic through sound, vocals and presence. During the ceremonies on The Reconnection, Camilla brings her voice and guitar to invite what’s true in the moment, welcoming emotion, silence, imperfection, and vulnerability.