About Us

The Story Behind The Place Retreats

The Place Retreats is an award-winning, luxury psychotherapeutic retreat that focuses on mind, body and spiritual healing located in Bali, Indonesia. Founded by the renowned psychotherapist in 2015, Jean-Claude Chalmet and his world-class healing team has transformed the lives of hundreds of clients from around the globe, accompanying them on their individual journeys to becoming the best version of themselves.

The Location

The property is a beautiful, luxurious English-style retreat nestled in the tropics that is filled with an eclectic blend of European and Asian art influences. Nestled in a private sanctuary set in Seminyak, The Place Retreats offers a safe and inspiring environment for guests to work on their transformation journey. The Place Retreats expands over 7,000 sq meters and includes 15 individually designed guest rooms, 6 treatment rooms, 4 swimming pools, lush tropical gardens, 2 yoga shalas, spacious communal areas and an onsite medical clinic.

Our Focus Is On You

Our uniquely personalized offerings focus on psychological support blended with holistic healing modalities, nutrition, fitness, and body healing. We do not believe in the “one size fits all” approach to wellness – that’s why every program is bespoke to each client based on your evolution and tailored with intention throughout your journey. Our areas of expertise include personal & professional development, burnout, grief & bereavement treatment, depression & anxiety treatment, emotional & trauma healing, addiction support, personality disorder treatment, and health & wellness support. In addition to our individual retreats, we have customized programs for couples, families, and leadership coaching.

Join Us At One Of The Top Healing Retreats In The World

Guests undertake an intensive transformation journey, led by Jean-Claude and his healing team and experts in their respective ﬁelds, offering a bespoke combination of psychotherapy, psychiatric support and holistic healing treatments including Yoga, Full-Spectrum Breathwork, Integrative Therapy, Japanese Acupuncture, Watsu, Esalen Massage & Bodywork, Medical Qigong, Fitness & Nutrition Programming, Rolfing Structural Integration, Osteopathic Treatment, Personal Growth Tantra, Foot Reflexology, Deep Tissue Matrix Healing, Shamanic Sound Healing, Dan Tien Rejuvenation, Therapeutic Face Massage and Introspective Development.

We do not believe in a “one size fits all” approach to healing & wellness.

A Letter From Our Founder

Jean-Claude Chalmet

Founder of The Place Retreats.

We can all agree that post-pandemic times have been an unusual and particularly rough & challenging time to navigate our mental health. You, our clients have left us at a loss for words with your kindness, understanding, and patience as we navigated through a crisis transition from in-person to online therapy sessions and now back to in-person retreats.

As we successfully transitioned into the new post-pandemic reality, we continue to look forward to welcoming you back, in person, at The Place Retreats here in beautiful Bali – as an award-winning expanded Residence for a Full Body and Mind Healing Experience with 15 residential rooms, new healing modalities, more therapists, a medical team and a more refined approach to your needs/stay and an exciting & innovative path to “a healthy mind in a healthy body!”

The world and life has changed considerably, but one thing remains the same – my team and I are here to design tailor-made luxury retreats for you, with a personal touch and support that is needed now more than ever before.

We are dedicated to your personal development, emotional recovery, self-discovery, and building good habits. A results-oriented psychological intervention that will also be relaxing, restorative and nurturing.

So whether you plan to join us for 7/10/14/21/30 days, or a Long Stay Retreat, allow my team and I to inspire you to reconnect with yourself and to Be Who You Are!

Jean-Claude Chalmet

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Read through their experiences

Julia, Individual Retreat

I came to find Jean Claude and the Place Retreats during a very bad time in my life. Not only was I physically ill, I was extremely depressed and emotionally volatile. The Place Retreats therapeutic MIND / Body / Soul, is a total approach to physical and mental health. Jean-Claude Chalmet, world psychotherapist, is not only brilliant, but he excludes patience and compassion. Food was AMAZING. (too amazing). Following in his footsteps, the staff are equally understanding of the difficulty each and every guests faces in their journey in mental and physical wellness. The different therapists are equally loving in their attentiveness and treatment. I would recommend Jean Claude’s program to anyone looking to recover from emotional trauma retreat, burnout retreat, depression retreat, relationship problems retreat, yoga and wellness retreat, or merely life’s ups and downs. I am forever grateful for finding Jean Claude and his Team of healers.

Georgiana, Couples Retreat

My husband and I did a couple retreat at The Place Retreats…..wow what an experience and such a fabulous place to reconnect not only with one another but also with our own authentic self. It’s such an amazing place which offers a safe and tranquil setting which allows you to grow as an individual and rediscover what is important to you. There are many therapies to indulge in from yoga to therapy sessions…it really is a self-discovery journey. JC is very good at ‘telling it as it is’ and helping you unlock your own potential to navigate life with a bit more kindness and self-love. This place is a haven where you can recharge batteries, make sense of your thought process and find your way when you feel lost and without hope.

Marc, Long Stay Retreat

When I arrived at the place I was an empty husk just waiting to die, I had battled emotional and mental issues for 3 decades without seeing the end of it and out of paths to move forward. I was tired and ready to let go. This is when I met Jean-Claude and after meeting him once I decided to try a little longer and signed up for this retreat. To say it was life changing wouldn’t do it justice. The Place gave me safe space to gather myself again and confront my demons in a space where I could win. It is however not a small change this place will build in you if you allow it. It requires a strong desire and even stronger commitment to change and self-discovery but the results are more than worth it. I now live again and experience joy, something I haven’t felt since I was a child. And for this I am truly grateful.

Brooke, Long Stay Retreat

As someone who used to agonize over every little decision (and admittedly still does from time to time), I think it’s pretty telling that less than 24 hours after first discovering The Place online I had my flight booked for a two week stay. I genuinely spent weeks researching a place that allowed me to get away and focus on myself for a bit. I looked up countless retreats and rehab centers all over the world that had a focus on the mental wellness aspect that I was so desperately looking for, but nothing had everything I was looking for. I didn’t just want to go on a yoga retreat because I wanted to really do the work on myself, but I wasn’t quite sure that a rehab centers with a focus on mental wellness would be a great fit either. It came to a point where I literally gave myself one more day to look up places before settling on something that didn’t quite fit the bill, and thank god I found The Place on that Monday afternoon. I don’t know if I can do The Place justice with my words, but here goes nothing. This place is pure magic. I think the only time the word I used the word “magic” prior to spending time at The Place was when describing the self-anointed “most magical place on earth”, Disney… but move over Disney.

Olga, Long Stay Retreat

I booked a month at The Place last year – and stayed for four. It proved to be all I had hoped for – and much more. I was recently widowed, recovering from cancer treatment and holding many years of unexpressed grief. I went to rest and recuperate, but It was to be the most fertile ground for my personal growth – back into the self I loved, but had hidden so deeply I was barely able to acknowledge she’d existed. JC led me to understand the meaning of self love and the importance of my own needs. This alone has been life changing. I returned recently for a restorative break, and to reconnect with him and the team, and asked myself what makes it so special. On reflection, at the heart of everything, is the profound sense of ease and security created by JC. My sessions with him were a joy and left me with a deeper understanding and sympathy for my own human experience and the people in it. This emotional healing led me to make the necessary changes in my life which, almost a year later, feels so much lighter and easier. His team of world-class healers released and realigned my mind and body in what often felt like divine circumstance. I was restored through amazing treatments, including Rolfing, Massage, Acupuncture, Dan Tien, Watsu, Tantra and Healing, along with twice daily Yoga sessions. I felt my strength returning and my mood lifting as each week went by. The support of this amazing man’s team of healers and caring staff is unique in my experience and cannot be understated. The chance to share laughter, hugs, healing tears, joy and hope with them and fellow guests can be a part of daily life there, should you choose. During mealtimes, in the pool or just over coffee, I met people united in a desire to pursue a better way of life, and formed deep and unexpected bonds of friendship to take home with me. I found grace, deep rest and friendship at The Place. It was the most revealing and self-nourishing time I have ever afforded myself. Thank you JC and the team, I will return.

Mary Lynn, Individual Retreat

In amongst the multitude of global offers purportedly providing healing therapies … finding Jean Claude and his extraordinary team of practitioners was a life changing and life enhancing experience. From the first contact with both JC and his team to the actual arrival, stay and post visit follow up every personalized detail of care, courtesy, concern and nourishing accompaniment was unparalleled, exquisite and extremely precise. The stunning insights, the pacing of the stages of recovery and the constant sense of being in safe hands made this stay wholesome and extremely effective. The delicacy and intelligent precision with which the layers of somatic trauma were unfurled supported me holistically in every way imaginable in this post traumatic journey of self care and recovery. All the team knew exactly how to synchronize, adjust and push my treatment to achieve exceptional outcomes. There is no other place I could recommend more highly than The Place.

Meet The Advisory Board

Dr Claudia M Elsig

With more than 20 years of professional experience, Dr Elsig possesses in-depth knowledge in the field of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic medicine. She completed her studies at the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich, before going on to complete different training programmes within the field of progressive, evidence-based, psychotherapeutic methods over the course of many years.

Following this, she specialized in psychotraumatology, after developing a deep interest in the consequences of mental and physical trauma and chronic stress such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), addiction, borderline personality disorder, depression and eating disorder; helping people individually, holistically and long term.

On her path to becoming a multi-specialist, Dr Elsig has sought out the best mentors in Europe in the fields of behavioral therapy, hypnosis, EMDR (Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing), orthomolecular medicine, genetics and genetic consulting, with a focus on addiction, depression and anxiety disorders.

Dr Elsig is the Founder and Medical Director of the CALDA Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland.

Dr Anna Walton

Anna is a counselling psychologist with a background in child development and a lifelong passion for horses. After university, she started her career as a singer/songwriter and toured internationally, but after training in South Africa with a horse whisperer she decided to retrain as a psychologist and utilize horses to help people.

Anna operates with JC from The Place London practice and sees clients for both traditional and equine therapy. She is known for her down-to-earth, collaborative way of working and has a nurturing and gentle approach, while being committed to pushing clients towards real and lasting change. Equine sessions with Anna are relaxed and unstructured, allowing her clients to experience unique insights and the opportunity for rapid transformation that horses offer. She and Jean-Claude have intuitively complementary ways of working that allow them to work seamlessly together with couples and groups.

Anna is Chartered by The British Psychological Society. She is a published academic researcher in the field of child development and has also co-authored a book on weaning and fussy eating.

Dr Priya Sen

Dr Priya Sen graduated from the University College London, UK with a double degree in Neuroanatomy and in Medicine. She became a member of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP, London) in 2000 and obtained her Fellowship (FRCP London) in 2010. Dr Sen spent 14 years at the National Skin Centre where she worked in the dermatology and laser surgery unit and has a large amount of experience working with lasers for hair removal, tattoo removal, pigmentation and scarring. She remains a Visiting Consultant at the National Skin Centre.

She obtained a Diploma in Genitourinary Medicine (UK) during a postgraduate scholarship at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London UK where she was also trained in the use of Injectable fillers and Botox in the department of dermatology.

Dr Sen is the Founder of Dr Priya Sen Skin & Laser Centre in Singapore.

Jean-Claude Chalmet

Jean-Claude started his career in London as an oil broker in the 80s before setting up his own independent oil broking company by the age of 25. His company was very quickly acquired by Salomon Brothers. He went on to join a philanthropic foundation in 1993 with various interests in telecommunications, space and water transportation in a number of foreign countries.

In 1999 he decided to pursue his love in life, the understanding of the human mind, which took him on a six-and-a-half-year journey of learning with Athens’ leading psychiatrists, neurologists and family therapists, completing a Diploma of Hypnotherapy and Psychotherapy at ICH – London in 2003.

In 2003, Jean-Claude continued on with a thriving practice in London working with other psychotherapists together and has published many features in the Saturday Times of London on issues concerning mental health, body & soul and ways forward for families, couples and individuals. Jean-Claude serves on the Scientific Advisory Board of Europe’s top medical rehab, the Calda Clinic.

In 2015, he founded The Place Retreats in Bali, a luxury psychotherapeutic retreat that focuses on mind, body and spiritual healing, and accompanying individuals, families and couples on their journeys to becoming the best version of themselves.