Maybe you understand yourself well — you think a lot, maybe you’ve already done therapy. And still: something doesn’t really shift. As if insight alone isn’t enough.
Body Psychotherapy works where talking stops: with sensations, impulses, what your body has been carrying for a long time. It’s for people ready to go deeper than understanding — not just to make sense of things, but to actually change something.
At the centre is your experience – not just what you think, but what you feel. I work in a body-oriented and trauma-informed way, primarily with Somatic Experiencing and Body Psychotherapy. Both approaches are based on the understanding that change doesn’t come from insight alone, but through new experience – in the body, in the moment, in relationship.
I work in Berlin, in English and German. This mostly happens in the form of individual therapy, but from time to time I offer groups as well.
If you would like to explore change, that does not fall into the category of healing treatment or therapy, I offer Coaching as well.
You know rationally what you should do – and still don’t do it. You’ve recognised patterns in your relationships – and keep repeating them. You’re exhausted but can’t really rest. You want to feel more alive – but don’t know where to start.
Daniel Holbach, born 1979, in Berlin since 2005. Important to me, apart from my own personal process, were my travels to India, the Middle East and South America, my yoga practice and many different ways of self-exploration.
Professionally I started out as a software engineer, from there I quickly turned to processes and concerns of teams and projects - especially working with volunteers in Open Source communities. I do know the fast-paced working life quite well. In my sabbatical 2017 I became Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie.
As you can easily see from my own development, I firmly believe in second chances in life. I believe our inner wisdom shows us the way and that we can learn more and more to trust our vitality and our bodies.
Why did I become a therapist and why is this work a matter so close to my heart?
For years I was deeply unhappy myself, I lived relationships in ever-repeating loops I did not comprehend. In my core I felt wrong, foreign or insecure a lot of the time. I experienced hollow bleakness and did not see opportunities for change. I thought more than I felt and did not understand urgent impulses of my body. It required crisis on multiple levels and the encouragement of people close to me, for me to finally embark on this voyage. It has led me ever closer to myself and to becoming the person I actually am.
In the midst of my own process I realised how much the work had already changed and inspired me. In 2016 I decided to become a therapist myself and support people on their personal path.
I know the fast-paced working world, the running on empty, and the path back to yourself. That’s why I bring genuine interest to this work – not just professionally.
People of all ages, genders, sexual identities and origins are welcome here.
The sessions happen in individual setting and take 60 minutes. In-person appointments are currently possible on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Therapy in English or German.
As candidate member of DGK/EABP and regular member of Somatic Experiencing (SE) Deutschland e.V. I am in regular supervision and intervision.
| Session type | Fee |
|---|---|
| Introductory call 20 minutes | Free of Charge |
| Group | currently not scheduled |
| 60 minute session | 90€ |
| 90 minute session | 130€ |
Sliding scale, depending on your income situation.
If you’re curious whether we might work well together – feel free to get in touch. A first conversation of 20 minutes is free and without obligation.
Here are two articles, I wrote for the It’s Complicated blog.
To me, healing must be seen holistically - it takes place on different levels: for example the body, our cognition, in the spiritual dimension, our psyche or in our relationships. What is beneficial to us and proves to be a resource is highly personal and different for all of us. My own healing journey illustrated this to me and I continue to explore the field. Psychotherapeutically I’m in continuous training, primarily in the trauma and body psychotherapy fields.
| Year | Activity / Training |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Neuro Resilience Exercises (NRE) Kolbjørn Vårdal (online) |
| The Common Thread – Treatment Planning in Process Work Dr. Szilvia Meggyesy (online) | |
| 2024 | Body Psychotherapy for Couples Gabriel Shiraz (online) |
| 2022-2024 | 3 year training: Somatic Experiencing BAPt e.V.: Anne Janzen, Ursula Funke-Kaiser (Berlin) |
| 2023 | Shame and Self-Loathing in the Treatment of Trauma Janina Fisher, PhD (online) |
| Shame and Guilt Somatic Experiencing (SE) Deutschland e.V.: Heike Gattnar (Bad Boll) | |
| Melting the Couple Armour Gabriel Shiraz (online) | |
| 2018-2021 | 4 year training; Body-oriented Psychotherapy Institut für Körperpsychotherapie Dr. Manfred Thielen, Ebba Boyesen, Anna Willach-Holzapfel, Prof. Dr. Ulfried Geuter, Stephan Hamblin-Trué, Stefan Ide (Berlin) |
| 2021 | Somatic Experiencing - Introduction BAPt e.V.: Marinka Gattnar (Greifswald) |
| 2020 | Trauma and Sexuality Akademie für integrative Traumatherapie: Dr. med. Melanie Büttner and Karin Paschinger (online) |
| Healing the Fragmented Self fortschritte Hamburg: Janina Fisher, PhD (online) | |
| Points & Positions - Basic massage Matthias Wenke (Bonn) | |
| 2019 | Somatic Ego-State Therapy® Basis Institut für NeuroTracking: Maggie Phillips PhD (München) |
| Pain Training Program for Professionals Maggie Phillips, PhD, et al (online) | |
| Healing Sexual Trauma Diane Poole Heller, PhD and Peter Levine, PhD (online) | |
| Start practice | |
| 2017 | Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie Arche Medica (Berlin) |
Please get in touch for any questions I didn’t answer yet on this page.
You can find more information and how best to reach me on the Contact page.
