Portrait of Rositsa Mihaylova, psychologist and embodied integration practitioner at INLIBRIUM

Rositsa Mihaylova

Rositsa Mihaylova

MSc

Psychologist & Embodied Integration Practitioner

Selected Experience & Credentials

  • More than two decades of body-based therapy: massage, aromatherapy, reflexology, conscious movement, and dance

  • Embodied preparation and integration, INLIBRIUM — before and after psychedelic-assisted sessions

  • Body-Soul-Spirit Therapist, Rose Alchemy, Sintra and Lisbon, Portugal (2021–present) — individual and group sessions, educational and self-help programs

  • Psychologist, Social Services Complex for Children and Families, Plovdiv Municipality (2009–2025)

  • Facilitator of a mutual-aid group for adoptive parents; psychological support for children in legal proceedings (Blue Room), Plovdiv

  • Psychologist, ALA — Association of Patients with Facial Anomalies and Their Parents (2014–2025)

  • MSc in Counseling Psychology — University of Plovdiv Paisii Hilendarski (2009)

  • Aromatherapy study — Tisserand Aromatherapy Institute, London (2000–2002)

  • Works in Bulgarian, English, and Russian

Rositsa’s particular contribution at INLIBRIUM is the body. Before a psychedelic-assisted session she prepares clients physically, so that they arrive grounded and at ease in themselves. Afterward she helps them integrate the experience at the physical level, through grounding, conscious movement, and carefully consented hands-on work, so that what has opened is held in the body as well as understood by the mind. She works in coordination with the program’s medical and psychological leads, offering presence rather than medical direction.

Much of Rositsa’s psychological work has been with people at their most vulnerable: children with special needs or without parental care, children who had experienced abuse, families going through divorce or adoption, and children and adults living with loss and trauma. That work taught her to read what a person cannot yet put into words, and to notice what the body communicates before language arrives.

Her own practice, Rose Alchemy, brings psychotherapy and bodywork into a single session: releasing physical tension, restoring alignment, and a full-body massage with essential oils she blends for each person. She works with the physical, emotional, and mental as one process, which is how she approaches integration as well.

In psychedelic work, Rositsa’s attention goes to what surrounds the session as much as to the session itself. She does not ask an intensive experience to yield an immediate explanation. Instead she protects time for solitude and self-processing, and a pace at which physical experience can be noticed, named, and carried into ordinary life.