different ways, depending on where you are
Most of what you've been told about healing has been organised around language: what happened, what it means, how to think about it differently.
My wish for everyone who works with me is to expand that beyond words. I come from a place of knowing, or I should rather say sensing - in my own body, not only my mind - that some things don’t resolve through language only. I integrate body-based work with an understanding of the mind’s inner landscape and dynamic. But we often focus on what you sense, not just on what you understand.
You may have done therapy. Perhaps even a lot of it. Talking helped, until it didn't, or helped with the understanding and left something else untouched. Something that still surfaces at the wrong moment, in your body, in your words, patterns, behaviours. A familiar tightening, a reaction that doesn't match the present.
This work is for people who have begun to suspect that what they're carrying is stored somewhere words don't reach.
In a way only lived experience can give you, I'm familiar with early loss, parental neglect, and the difficulty of growing up inside a family influenced by a parent's addiction. These experiences shape the nervous system early. They don't always resolve through cognitive work alone. If you've been through something similar, it can help to know you're not alone.
how I work
It began with what 20 years of yoga practice quietly opened up for me. Breath, gentle movement, body awareness - not as exercise, but as a way back into the body's own language. A way of learning to listen to what is already there.
Alongside with using elements of therapeutic yoga, I work with Somatic Experiencing, developed by Dr. Peter Levine, a modality in which I am currently training. It works with what the body held when there was no room to complete what was activated. Not the story of what happened, but the sensation that arrived and never fully moved through.
The container around working with the body and the nervous system is Internal Family Systems, in which I am Level 2 trained. An evidence-based psychotherapy model developed by Dr. Richard Schwartz, IFS works with the internal landscape: the parts that protected, the parts that withdrew, the parts that are still waiting for something they needed long ago.
When we’re caught in fear, uncertainty, or shock, something shifts inside us. Different parts of us react differently - one part wants to flee, another freezes, another keeps pushing through as if nothing is happening. These reactions are not weakness. They are intelligence. And they deserve attention.
The orientation across all of it is toward sensation first, not narrative. Not what happened - but what you notice happening now, in the body, in this moment. That shift is quieter than it sounds. Sometimes more disorienting, because we are so trained to think our way through.
Sessions are unhurried. There is no pushing. The nervous system needs to sense it can stop before it can fully move. Creating that safety is not preliminary to the work - it is the work.
Completing what was interrupted, not fixing what is broken.
who I work with
People come to this work from many directions. Some of the ones I know best from lived experience:
Professionals navigating high performance and hidden cost
Corporate professionals, startup founders, people who’ve built demanding careers and want to be well inside them. I spent two decades in that world - I know what it asks of the nervous system, what it rewards, and what it takes. The environment isn’t the enemy - but high-paced worlds move faster than the body can sustain without support. Having real tools to regulate, recalibrate, and stay connected to yourself isn’t a luxury - it’s what makes thriving possible.
Mothers carrying more than they name
The mental load, the identity shift, the particular loneliness of being needed by everyone, all the time. I’m a mother of two, and I know how much of this lives in the body long before it becomes words. Matrescence - a term coined by anthropologist Dana Raphael in 1973 - names the profound physical, psychological, and neurological reorganisation that happens when you become a mother, and long after. It doesn’t end with the postpartum period. It’s a time of heightened sensitivity, shifting identity, and real vulnerability to mental health difficulties - yet it’s rarely named or supported as what it is. And if you’re also navigating a career alongside it, the pull between two worlds that both demand everything doesn’t double the load - it reshapes it entirely.
Expats and people far from home
I’ve lived across four countries and two continents. Displacement reshapes the nervous system in ways that don’t always register as loss - but the body knows. If you’ve built a life somewhere new and something still feels unanchored, I understand that deeply. Sometimes what lives underneath is grief - for a language, a landscape, a version of yourself that belonged somewhere else. It doesn’t always announce itself as grief. But when it’s seen and witnessed, it can finally settle and transform.
You can reach out to me even if you don't fit in any of these categories. You just need a sense that there’s more room to breathe than what you currently have.
sessions
60 minutes, held over video call. After an introductory call we'll set the pace together. In person, in Zürich old city also possible if desired. Time zone - Central European Time.
Disclaimer: I am not a licensed psychotherapist. This work complements existing mental health support; it does not replace clinical care, and I don't diagnose or treat clinical conditions.
My academic background includes a 2 year MSc in Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health at King's College London – Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience (2025).
My practical and trauma-informed background includes Yoga Teacher Training, RYT® 200 (2017), Yin Yoga training (2023), International Yoga Alliance · Somatic Attachment Therapy, The Embody Lab (2023) · Transforming Touch, regulation-focused approach to developmental trauma, Stephen Terrell (2023–24) · Trauma Research Foundation Certificate in Traumatic Stress Studies, Bessel van der Kolk (2024) · Breath and Movement for Trauma Healing, The Embody Lab (2025). Internal Family Systems (Level 2 trained) and Somatic Experiencing (Year 1) - both in training.
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If you are navigating a difficult time in your life, loss of vital energy, or a nervous system that has been shaped by overwhelming experience - individual sessions offer a space to do this work with depth and care, grounded in your body's wisdom. A free discovery call is the first step - no commitment. Just a conversation to see whether this feels right.
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