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.
Key Areas of Focus
- 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
