Hello, I’m Dragana
I am a Body Psychotherapist under supervision working with individuals across a wide range of life challenges. My journey into the field began with a question that has never left me: why do we so often understand ourselves intellectually and yet still feel stuck, disconnected, or unable to truly change? The answer, I discovered, lies in the body.
Body Psychotherapy holds that the body is not simply a vehicle for the mind — it is an equally intelligent, equally expressive dimension of who we are. Our early experiences of safety, love, loss, and fear are woven into our muscles, our breath, and our posture, long before we have words for them. In therapy, we learn to listen to those deeper layers with curiosity and compassion rather than suppression.
My training draws on the humanistic and somatic tradition in psychotherapy, working simultaneously on three levels: thought, emotion, and bodily experience. I integrate contemporary understandings of the nervous system and trauma-informed practice, believing that durable change must be felt in the body — not only understood in the mind.
What drives me most is witnessing the moment when a person reconnects with their own aliveness — when the chronic tension softens, the breath deepens, and something essential that had been locked away begins to move again. I approach every session with warmth, attentiveness, and the deepest respect for the courage it takes to begin this kind of work.
How It Works
Working on three levels
Body Psychotherapy does not separate thinking from feeling from physical experience. In each session we gently attend to all three, because enduring change needs to be understood, felt, and experienced in the body.
We explore the stories and beliefs formed in early life — the inner critic, the assumptions we carry about ourselves and others — and gently bring them into the light of awareness.
Rather than bypassing difficult emotions, we learn to stay with them — to develop the capacity to feel fully without being overwhelmed, and to express what has long been suppressed.
Working with breath, movement, posture, and bodily sensation, we release the chronic patterns of tension that hold old experience in place and restore a felt sense of safety and aliveness.
Training & Credentials
Background & Qualifications
I hold specialist postgraduate training in Body Psychotherapy and am fully accredited with the relevant professional bodies. I work within a clear ethical framework, engage in regular clinical supervision, and am committed to ongoing professional development — particularly in the evolving fields of somatic trauma work and neuroscience.
TePsynthesis is an Integrative Body-Psychotherapy that combines and synthesises Radix (Charles Kelley), Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and Transpersonal Psychotherapy. The TePsynthesis education programme was accredited by the Radix Kelley Institute, WCBP 2003, and EABP 2005.
The PEAT method is successfully used for the elimination of anxiousness, fears, upsets, and other psychological and emotional difficulties. It is applied in self-help, personal development, and healing, as well as in professional PEAT therapy sessions by trained practitioners worldwide.
Core psychological concepts, major therapeutic approaches, ethics, and the development of essential communication and self-awareness skills needed for further training in psychotherapy.
My Values
What guides my practice
Everything I do in the therapy room flows from a small set of core beliefs about people and the healing process.
🌿 Embodiment
I believe the body is a source of wisdom. In our sessions, we listen to it as closely as we listen to words.
🤲 Compassion
I approach every part of you — including the parts that feel broken or difficult — with warmth rather than judgement.
🔍 Curiosity
Open, non-judgemental curiosity is one of the most powerful forces in healing. We cultivate it together.
🪞 Authenticity
I show up as myself in the room, not a blank screen — because genuine contact between two people is itself therapeutic.
⛰️ Grounding
All work is done at your pace, within your window of tolerance. Safety and steadiness come first.
🌱 Aliveness
The goal is not merely symptom relief but a deeper restoration — returning to a fuller, freer, more vital way of being.
If anything here resonates with you, I would love to hear from you. The first step is simply saying hello.
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