About Dana
Here to guide you back to the wisdom and intelligence of your body.
Somatic psychotherapist and supervisor, fascia structural bodyworker,
yoga and movement teacher, healer, and educator — with over a decade of international clinical experience.
The work
More than a decade serving people in the space where the body and psyche meet.
Dana works in the space where psychological experience is held in the body.
She works with complex psychosomatic and developmental patterns — anxiety, chronic tension, collapse, over-functioning, relational overwhelm — approaching these not as isolated conditions to eliminate, but as embodied adaptations shaped over time.
Muscle tone shifts. Breath narrows or braces.
Emotional responses are organised in ways that once served, but no longer allow life to move freely.
Her approach is rigorous, relational, and precise. She does not equate regulation with calmness, nor does she mistake intensity for pathology. Containment, in her work, is not suppression, but the capacity to remain present within strong emotional and physiological experience, as the system begins to reorganise.
This work does not focus on fixing symptoms, but on meeting the place where they arise. Through this, the body can gradually reorganise, expand its capacity,
and return to greater coherence.
"Her professional path is inseparable from lived experience — and that is precisely what gives her work its depth."
the path
A personal journey of coming back to the body.
Long before entering the somatic field, Dana’s path was shaped by years of immersion in transpersonal psychotherapy, yoga, meditation, Energy work, and embodied practices across cultures. Time spent living and studying in India deepened this work, informing her understanding of healing as a bridge between the somatic and the spiritual.
After a childhood immersed in movement, from gymnastics to yoga and acrobatics, she later lived with chronic pain that did not respond to conventional approaches. Turning toward somatic bodywork felt like the right direction, and in many ways it was. But when trauma began to surface through the body, her practitioner did not know how to meet it. She was left to navigate that alone.
That experience became a turning point. Not only personally, but professionally.
She understood then that bodywork without the capacity to hold trauma is incomplete. And that psychotherapy without the body misses where the trauma actually lives. The gap between the two was not just a gap in her healing. It was a gap in the field itself.
So she went back to study. Somatic psychology. Developmental trauma. The nervous system. The fascia. Building, over years and across continents, the training that would allow her to bridge what had been left separate.
This is why she works the way she does.
Not body or psyche. Both, held together, with precision and care.
Her own practice continues through ongoing supervision, mentorship, and guidance.
Training & credentials
Psychotherapy
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Educational Supervisor, Bodynamic International (2024–2025)
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Somatic Developmental Psychology practitioner, Bodynamic Int. (2016–2020)
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Clinical Applications of Polyvagal Theory — Stephen W. Porges PhD (2019)
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Core Evolution Body Psychotherapy — Siegmar Gerken PhD (2015–2017)
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Transpersonal Psychotherapy, Teadlik Mina
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Bodymap Training — Lene Wisbom (2020–2021)
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Reorienting Birth Training — Lisbeth Marcher (2025)
Advanced seminars
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Developmental trauma — Ditte Marcher, Bodynamic Int.
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Trauma, Development & Attachment — Raja Selvam PhD
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Professional seminars — Dr Gabor Maté
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Attachment & bonding — Ditte Marcher
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Shock trauma — Raja Selvam PhD
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Neurobiology Matter — Kim Barthel
Manual therapy & fascia
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Rebalancing (2014)
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Structural Integration (2014)
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MER — MyoFascial Energetic Release (2015–2017)
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Myofascial seminars — Tom Myers
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Fascia and the nervous system — Dr Robert Schleip
Movement
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Certified Ashtanga-Vinyasa Yoga teacher 200h (2011)
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Certified Hatha-Tantra Yoga teacher 200h (2016)
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Certified AcroYoga teacher (2014)
Energetic Work
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Theta Healing (advanced training and assisting), 2006
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The Expansion method 2010
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Light Medicine
The deeper current
Beyond regulation — toward a soulful life.
Over the years, this work has revealed itself to be something more than clinical.
The felt sense — that inner knowing beneath thought and story — is not only a therapeutic tool. It is a doorway.
To meaning. To connection. To a more soulful relationship with life itself.
The body is not only biology. It carries energy — the life force that moves through sensation, through breath, through the subtle currents beneath our awareness. When we learn to listen at this level, healing becomes something larger than symptom relief.
This is the deeper current running through all of Dana's work — whether in a somatic session, a supervision, or a group program.
An invitation not only to regulate, but to awaken.
Beyond the clinic
A life in service of embodied healing.
In 2022, Dana was part of the creation and implementation of a support system for Ukrainian psychotherapists through the ABP, supporting the support system in acute times of displacement and trauma.
She collaborated with Tou Helsepark in Stavanger and ran her own clinic in Norway from 2017 to 2025, working with a highly multicultural, international community facing chronic stress, fibromyalgia, chronic pain, anxiety, and psychosomatic conditions.
She has taught workshops across Europe and Asia — including Playground, an embodiment workshop exploring the felt sense of self in connection with others — and has worked with children and families in Family Playground through playful movement since 2012.
Start to learn to listen
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