For old traumas to heal, a great deal of loving care, patience, and the courage to confront painful experiences are needed. One must learn to feel oneself, to perceive and defend one's own boundaries, in order to become capable of connecting with others again.

I offer you professional support in this regard. For trauma healing, we work with methods from Somatic Emotional Integration according to Peter Levine's Somatic Experiencing, as well as with gentle bodywork and special forms of psychodrama and family constellations.

Most traumas originate in early childhood through emotional and physical violence, sexual abuse, or emotional neglect by parents or close caregivers (e.g., due to mental disorders). Trauma can also result from repeated experiences of abandonment or serious illness. Often, traumas develop before or during birth. Premature births, requiring infants to spend their first days in an incubator, can also be traumatizing.

This often later develops into a feeling of being disconnected from one's own body. Certain body parts may only be perceived in a distorted way or not at all. Sometimes the body also reacts with pain, such as migraines or back pain, for which there is no real organic cause.

Attachment disorders or attachment anxiety are also common. Traumatized individuals often find it difficult to allow genuine, committed contact with others, as they frequently perceive other people as threatening or intrusive. Furthermore, the fear of abandonment often prevents traumatized individuals from building stable relationships. This results in a feeling of loneliness, coupled with a deep longing for closeness and connection.

There are also shock traumas, which can be triggered, for example, by an accident or witnessing a disaster. A shock trauma develops particularly often when there is a pre-existing developmental trauma.