From survival to coherence
Integrative somatic work across structure, nervous system regulation, emotion, and developmental patterning
Your body is a bridge
between matter and consciousness,
between sensing and meaning.
When the body meets experiences that are too much, too soon, or too alone,
It adapts.
It learns how to protect.
It learns how to disconnect when staying present is not possible.
It organizes around what it cannot yet process.
Muscle tone shifts.
Breath narrows or braces.
Emotion amplifies or numbs.
Relational posture adjusts.
These are not mistakes.
They are intelligent responses.
Over time, this organisation can feel like an identity.
Anxiety.
Chronic tension.
Over-responsibility.
Collapse.
Hyper-independence.
These are not flaws.
They are structural solutions.
We spend enormous energy managing,
holding ourselves together
inside a familiar organisation.
It quietly drains our energy meant for living.
Real change asks something different of us.
It asks us to listen.
To sense rather than solve.
To meet emotion rather than escape it.
To find safety within rather than outside ourselves.
This is where change begins.
As we stay present in this way,
the experience itself begins to change.
Emotions become signals
rather than stories or problems to manage.
The body becomes not something to control,
but a living intelligence
we can be in relationship with.
When the system organises around survival,
Life narrows.
When structure reorganises into coherence,
Capacity expands.
Not because intensity disappears,
But because you are steady enough to stay.
When coherence emerges, life moves differently.
We do not only heal.
We remember we belong.
We remember we are part.
Choice becomes available.
Participation becomes possible.
Life does not necessarily become easier.
You become more able to meet it.
Life becomes yours again.
clients share their experience
Dana's work is based on many years of experience and a multitude of educational training that support each other.
She works intuitively and has the ability to listen to the unspoken needs of the client, as well as respect the client's personal limitations and integrity.
I recommend her soft, yet strong and supportive sessions.
Mariel Kvaale, Oslo
K. J.G
Stavanger, Norway
I've learned to manage my chronic tension and stress. I got in touch with my emotions after I hadn't cried for more than 20 years.
I feel a lot more. I have feelings that I didn't have before, but the biggest unexpected win was the relationships with my wife, children, and people in my life that grew in new and exciting ways.
I got much more patient with myself and others.
My sense of life became much more interesting in many ways, and my role in it,
I became a better leader in my work.
My wife even said about this process, it was a great investment :)
After years of anxiety and PMDD,
where I felt I've told my adversity story so many times to so many professionals.
In relatively, such a short time, my anxiety symptoms were gone.
My PMDD symptoms were so much better.
But really, more than anything, I found safety within.
And I feel much more capable and present.
So grateful!
AJ. United State
Dana never fails to amaze with her knowledge, intuitive approach, and her ability to guide you in finding YOUR OWN BODY's way.
Forever grateful and in awe of your skills with people and the body.
I've learned so much about myself and my body.
I received knowledge and techniques to listen to my body and not only manage my pain but also prevent it.
Thank you
About Dana
I am a somatic–transpersonal psychotherapist and bodyworker with over a decade of clinical experience. My work is grounded in the body as a site of intelligence, adaptation, and meaning — and in the understanding that real change requires more than insight. It requires working with how the system organises.
I work with complex psychosomatic and developmental patterns — anxiety, chronic tension, collapse, over-functioning, relational overwhelm — approaching these not as isolated problems, but as embodied adaptations shaped over time.
My approach integrates structural bodywork, somatic developmental psychology, nervous system science, fascia studies, and transpersonal inquiry.
It is rigorous, relational, and precise — attending to structure, regulation, emotion, and developmental imprint as one integrated system.
As a mother of two, I continue to practice daily what I teach: regulation, rupture and repair, strength, and embodied presence.
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If you’d like to stay in touch with this work,
You’re welcome to explore the spaces where it currently lives.
These are offered as places to listen, sense, and orient —
at your own pace.
