Work With Me
Jungian Shadow Work
Parts Work
Inner Masculine & Feminine
Embodiment & Expression
The Focus
I work with women who are intelligent, self-aware, and still stuck. Who have done the reading, understand their patterns, and keep repeating them anyway. Who are functioning well by every visible measure while something underneath feels slightly off.
Understanding the pattern is not the same as being free of it. That gap, between the clarity of what you know and what you keep doing, is where I work.
I call it threshold work. It moves toward what is real rather than what is comfortable. It begins at the exact place you least want to visit.
Not the behavior. The architecture beneath it. The adaptive pattern that made sense once and is now shaping your decisions, your relationships and your creative output, without your full awareness or consent.
This is not a failure of insight. It is what happens when understanding lives in the mind while the pattern lives somewhere else, in the body, in the nervous system, in the unconscious architecture that was built long before you had language for it. Insight alone cannot reach that layer. Something more precise is needed.
That is what my work is.
The Offerings
The Threshold is a single 1:1 session for those standing at inner thresholds or navigating life transitions.
In the session I’ll support you in the process of returning to your self beyond roles, learned behavior and familiar patterns.
In the session we’ll explore something specific together. It could be a decision you feel stuck in, a pattern you keep repeating, a old version of yourself you’re outgrowing, a creative block with no apparent cause, a persistent feeling you can name but don’t understand, a dynamic that keeps showing up in your relationships or work.
From there we will investigate the deeper layers and patterns beneath it. That invisible architecture that is shaping your perception.
The work is subtle and cellular, and happens through the body, not the mind. I will guide you through sensation, feeling and clear seeing, while we explore what is happening for you.
Investment: 400€ a month
Details: 1:1 container with biweekly sessions
Duration: 3–6 months
Location: Online or in person in Ericeira
ApplyThe Crossing is a longer container to transform your internal architecture. For the woman who knows something needs to fundamentally shift, and is ready to do the work of shifting it.
You might be familiar with your patterns. You have named them, traced them and understood their origins, and yet they still repeat. This is the specific problem I work with, the gap between understanding a pattern and moving through it, to live beyond it.
My work is focusing on the unconscious aspects of your psyche. Where therapy addresses symptoms, often through talking and locating the origin and coaching addresses behavior, I work at the level where the pattern was formed, where it can actually shift – in the body and nervous system.
We meet 2 times a month for deep sessions. Between sessions I send writing prompts, experiments and practices designed to continue the work.
I work with a small number of people at a time. The Crossing begins with a Threshold Session. Apply to find out if there is currently space.
The Work
The pattern beneath the pattern
The repeating cycle you can describe but not stop. We locate where it lives in the body, what it was originally protecting, and what it has been costing. That is where it can actually change.
The inner voice running your decisions
The one that second-guesses, edits, and keeps you translating yourself before you speak. We distinguish it from your actual authority, and shift the relationship between them.
The body’s held knowledge
You have been overriding your body’s signals for years. The contraction before you’ve consciously registered stress. The exhaustion that arrives in the bones before it reaches the mind. We learn to read that information precisely, it is the most accurate data you have.
Creative expression and self-censorship
The editing that happens before the words leave your mouth. The project started and abandoned. The work that never quite becomes what it was in your mind. We work at the root of what interrupts your expression, not the symptom, but the structure beneath it.
The gap between private and public self
The version of you that operates in the world and the one that exists in private. The cost of maintaining that distance. We work toward closing that gap, by building a different internal ground to stand on.
[5]Anna works with both the conscious and unconscious layers of experience, through deep somatic coaching.
Approach
I work intuitively and integratively with transformation and see humans as complex, interconnected systems part of a larger whole. For me mind, body, spirit and energy is also connected and express the same truth in different ways.
My process is a mix of deep reflection, pattern recognition, active imagination, emotional inquiry and somatic nervous system work that build capacity and awareness through slow subtle embodiment.
The approach is rooted in the transformation I’ve gone through my self, weaving together everything I’ve learned through personal experience, drawing from Integral Psychotherapy, Depth Psychology, Coaching, Parts Work, emotional inquiry, somatic experiencing and nervous system work.
My sessions are intuitively guided, but usually follow four natural stages:
Reveal
We bring what has been unconscious into the light of awareness, the patterns, the protections, the inherited beliefs you didn’t know were running.
Witness
You learn to stay present with what emerges, emotions, shadows, tension, sensation, without managing, escaping, or collapsing.
Reclaim
You call back what was exiled: your emotions, your needs, your voice, your boundaries, your instincts and your right to take up space.
Embody
The transformation slowly integrates, not as a new performance to practice, but as an inner steadiness and solid sense of self.
My work is for
those who
- Feel outwardly capable but inwardly disconnected
- Feel persistent self-doubt, tension and anxiety
- Look to others for answers and direction
- Have difficulty holding visibility, pressure and attention
- Hide behind being easy-going
- Sense a gap between their private and public self
- Abandon themselves to be chosen by others
- Lack confidence, trust and self-worth
- Shape-shift and contort themselves to belong
- Are an expert fixer, care-taker and rescuer
- No longer know what they need, want and desire
Where you are heading
Feeling sovereign in your own energy
Standing firm in your choices and preferences
Knowing your own truth and honoring it
Sourcing validation from within
A connection to your raw expression and original creativity
Navigating from clear values, direction and focus
Directing your energy intentionally
Altering the rooms you enter with your presence
Choosing yourself first
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