Biography

I am a psychotherapist in my own practice in Vienna, trained in body psychotherapy, integrative Gestalt therapy, teaching therapist for art therapy, and further trained in analytically oriented psychotherapy and trauma therapy. Born in Poland, I studied German and education there, then obtained my diploma at the University of Vienna (linguistics/psychology).

I trained as a body psychotherapist at ERI (Emotional Reintegration), then in the Integrative Gestalt Therapy section of the ÖAGG. Working with mentally ill patients in the outpatient clinic of a psychiatric clinic sparked my interest in deep regression processes and dissociative states. As a result of this clinical practice, as well as years of dealing with meditation techniques and belief systems, I developed an interest in the nature of prenatal regression and the nonverbal aspects of communication. This was followed by further training in somatic trauma therapy with B. Rothschild, as well as in analytical body and psychotherapy. The focus of my research was on body therapeutic and spiritual aspects of psychotherapy, then the nature of prenatal attachment (prenatal attachment theory) and introspective approaches to early experience (methodology). I was a member of the international advisory board of the journal for biosynthesis "E&Ch" and became a teaching therapist for art therapy in 2002. This and the collaboration with the ISPPM inspired my thinking about human development and influenced my therapeutic approach with a focus on pre- and perinatal issues.

My specialty became the prenatal and perinatal (before birth and after birth) period of human development. My clinical research led me to consider the earliest human development, based on the hypothesis that our identity is already established in the womb.

This is how my own method of pre- and perinatal-oriented psychotherapy was formed. My concept of "essential" and "interpersonal" attachment forms the basis of understanding human identity formation; I call it the "bipolar self". The focus of my therapeutic work is working on resistance to one's own creative potential in order to free one's own life force. This often implies dealing with prenatal and/or birth trauma. Uncovering traumatic conflicts that occur so early and are apparently not rememberable requires special approaches. I disseminate my method, called PPP, both theoretically and practically in lectures, publications, seminars and as projects at home and abroad (Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Ukraine).