Practice

Welcome

Trauma leaves its imprints across many different areas of our lives. Working with these traces creates the foundation for building safe connection, healing integration and growth.

One of my deepest commitments is to make knowledge about trauma more accessible and to find ways of translating what trauma experience means, not only psychologically, but also in its physical and health-related dimensions. These are often overlooked and not sufficiently integrated into how we understand our lives. I see working with trauma as a universal task – one that operates both within the life of an individual and within the broader fabric of our societies and one that likely touches all of us more deeply than we have yet come to recognise.

Beyond my clinical practice, I work as a speaker, trainer and consultant on the topic of trauma – in Germany and across Europe – and this work is something I pursue with great joy and conviction. The effects of attachment and developmental trauma in particular carry far-reaching consequences – not only for a person’s inner life and mental health, but also for their felt sense of safety in the body, in community, and in relation to the world – and in the possibility of safe closeness with others.

In my day-to-day clinical practice, I support patients and clients of all ages in working through psychological distress, traumatic experiences and physical illness in a way that strengthens their sense of personal agency and helps them find their way back to a self-determined life. A particular focus close to my heart is supporting women with complex trauma and women’s health.

My training as a therapist is grounded in process-oriented and integrative psychotherapy, with a foundation in Gestalt therapy and trauma therapy. The pillars of my trauma therapeutic work draw from attachment and developmental trauma therapy, as well as neurovisual trauma processing – including EMDR®, Brainspotting®, EMI®, and TRIMB®, among others and classical hypnosis. On the somatic side, I integrate somatic psychotherapy and sensorimotor trauma therapy as developed by Pat Ogden.

A significant focus of my work lies in therapeutic support for attachment and developmental trauma, as well as a range of attachment difficulties. Alongside psychotherapy and trauma therapy, I integrate neuroscience, naturopathic and functional medicine, and psychosomatics. The foundation of my integrative medical approach was built through advanced studies in alternative medicine with a focus on women’s health – as an Oriental Medical Doctor – and through my training as a Heilpraktikerin in China and Germany.

Although the topics I work with are often deeply challenging, I cannot imagine a more fulfilling path.

I have been working as an independent therapist in my own practice since 2009 and I bring over 20 years of continuing education across the following areas:

  • Integrative medicine with a focus on women’s health (OMD® in China and Germany)
  • Psychotraumatology and trauma therapy (certified DVP and GPTG)
  • Functional medicine and psychoneuroimmunology & psychosomatics
  • Naturopathy and homeopathy (20 years of continuing education)
  • Sensorimotor and somatic psychotherapy (Pat Ogden & K. Kain)
  • Classical hypnosis after M. Erickson®
  • Classical Gestalt therapy (TIB)
  • Polyvagal theory after S. Porges and Deb Dana
  • Neuroscience (D. Perry, D. Siegel, B. van der Kolk, Dr. Damir del Monte)
  • Neurovisual trauma therapy : EMDR®, Brainspotting® Dr. D. Grand, PITT®, TRIMB®
  • Advanced training in attachment and developmental trauma
  • (incl. B. David Elliott, Cathy Steele, M. Huber, E. McCrory, K. Brisch)
  • NARM® M. Mokrus and L. Heller

I am continuously engaged in ongoing training, intervision and supervision.

I believe that with the knowledge and possibilities available to us today, we can develop a deep understanding of the changes that are needed – in our most personal lives, and in the broader contexts of our shared humanity that have for too long remained unaddressed.

The healing integration of experienced terror, pain, loss and trauma requires in my understanding : education, a holistic perspective, low-threshold access to knowledge and therapeutic support, and the recognition and honouring of the lived reality of those affected.

I wish you courage and all the best on your path.

With warm regards,

Ana Große Halbuer

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