Awake and Heal
Holistic and transformative therapy

Holistic therapy 

 Do you feel stuck in life, wishing for something more? Do you have a behavior or thought pattern you cannot seem to change? Do you let past events or trauma affect how you react and feel today? Do you suffer from any kind of addiction, depression or anxiety? Do you feel unmotivated, drained, stressed or simply just not yourself? I have met countless people with all kinds of different challenges and it seems like the challenges are always different expressions of a fundamental disconnection from oneself. Simply because it is too painful to be oneself. I am here to guide you through the process of unbecoming everything that you are not and arrive back to your true authentic self. I believe true freedom and the ability to fully experience life comes from healing your past, being fully present in the moment and feeling unlimited, creative and excited for your future, and I know we can all  get there.


Why holistic and transformative therapy?  

A disconnection from ourselves can be due to trauma and life changing events but it can also result from the pressure from society, norms, stress, and every time we do not listen to our needs and do not set our boundaries. The meaning of the word “trauma” in its Greek origin is “wound”, it is an inner wound that we carry. Trauma is not what happens to us, not the event, but what happens inside of us as a result of what happened to us. Therefore, what is a trauma for one person might not be a trauma for another person. Whether we realize it or not, it is our woundedness, or how we cope with it, that dictates much of our behavior, shapes our social habits, and informs our ways of thinking about the world.

 The neglecting of the effects that trauma and stress, along with the pressure of modern-day living, exert on our bodies, our minds and our souls is at the expense of our health, where society fails to see the whole person. For example, research today clearly shows that emotional stress is a major cause of physical illness, from cancer to autoimmune conditions and many other chronic diseases. The brain and body systems that process emotions are intimately connected with the hormonal apparatus, the nervous system and the immune system. So, the suppressed emotions, suppressed authenticity and fundamentally the disconnection from oneself, leads to physical illness. This shows us how connected our mind, emotions, souls and body are. It is vital for deep healing to be possible to see that we are whole beings no matter if we work on physical illness, mental health issues, behavior patterns or limiting beliefs about ourselves. To see ourselves as divided will hinder the natural strive that our being has to be in homeostasis: balance.  

The methodology 

 My holistic and transformative therapy is a concept where I use all my modalities to create a unique plan for you. I use a combination of psychodynamic therapy, gestalt therapy, lifetime-integration, somatic work, hypnosis and Kundalini Activation Transmission. It's a deep process where we work with your mind, your subconscious, your physical body, your emotional and energetic body, and we do this while practicing and healing thought relationships. 

The holistic and transformative therapy allows us to always see the whole being and to go to the roots, not only remove the symptoms such as, for example, an eating disorder, panic attacks or an avoidance in relationships. It allows us to go further and ask why the pain is there, to fully understand but also experience where the pain comes from. Most often the challenges we face have been normal reactions to un-normal circumstances and therefore there is always something for us to learn in the challenges and hardship we are facing.

I am here to create a space where you can fully be your authentic self, a place where you do not need to perform, achieve, or pretend anything.  I am here to hold you through the process, where you will arrive at a place where you are able to see yourself fully and hold yourself fully. By working holistically with all my modalities, I will know when in the process you are ready for the different modalities, each modality having a unique gift to bring to the overarching process that we are working with. I will continuously be with you in the process and adapt the plan after your unique journey. You will receive tools to use between sessions such as self-hypnosis, breathwork and other tools to navigate challenges. I will also be there for support between the sessions, if you need me to.

Read more about each modality on their specific side on the website.