Barbara Fereberger

Clinical and health psychologist
Somatic Experiencing practitioner ®
Qualified practitioner of the Grinberg Method®
Certified yoga teacher and fitness trainer
Lecturer and workshop leader at the Professional Association of Austrian Psychologists (BÖP), among others

Barbara has been working as a clinical and health psychologist, body and trauma therapist in private practice in Vienna for over 10 years. Before that, she worked as a clinical psychologist at Integrationshaus in Vienna for almost 10 years, after spending 2 years in Peru and Ecuador working with children and young people for an English NGO.

Trauma work to stabilize the nervous system, to bring the body back into safety and balance, as well as complex attachment trauma are the areas to which she has devoted herself intensively in recent years in individual and group settings, as well as a workshop leader and lecturer.

It is very important to her to understand the human being as a whole: the body and the autonomic nervous system, the emotional brain, attachment and emotion, as well as our cerebrum, thinking and our ability to attribute meaning to what we experience.

Main areas of work:

Trauma work and stabilization of the nervous system
Stress reduction and resilience training
Anxiety, panic and depression, especially as a trauma-related disorder
Attachment trauma
Bodywork
Yoga and trauma-sensitive yoga

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Cooperation partner of WIENER COUCH since 2021
Training in the trauma therapy method Somatic Experiencing (SE) according to Peter Levine (2017- 2019) with Itta Wiedemann, Seitenstetten Upper Austria
Training as a qualified practitioner of the Grinberg Method® in Austria and Spain 2010-2013
Yoga teacher training according to Yoga Vidya, Vienna and Germany 2007-2008
Narrative exposure therapy for traumatized refugees and asylum seekers, Vienna and Constance 2005
Training as a clinical and health psychologist, Vienna 2004
Mag. rer. nat. in Psychology, Graz 1994-2000
Training as a state-certified fitness and aerobics instructor, Linz 1999
Study visit to Paris, language diploma from the Sorbonne, Paris 1997-1998
Language skills: German, English, Spanish, French spoken and written

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