Hi there, I´m Anna!
I didn't take a straight path to becoming a therapist. But looking back, every step was pointing in the same direction — toward understanding what really happens inside people, and between people and the systems they live within.
The Long Way Round
I grew up in Olsztyn, a small town in Poland, and at eighteen I did what felt like the only logical thing — I packed my bags and moved to Germany to study. I enrolled at Viadrina Europa University in cultural science, drawn to sociology and sociolinguistics, to the question of how culture shapes the way we think, speak, and see ourselves.
But it was a two-year detour to Mexico that changed everything.
As part of an interdisciplinary program integrating applied psychology and anthropology, I researched prehispanic dance practiced in modern contexts — as spiritual connection, as identity, as a form of body-based healing. It was the first time I understood, not just intellectually but physically, that transformation doesn't only happen in the mind. It happens in the body. In movement. In the space between people.
I carried that understanding back to Berlin, where I completed my Masters in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on cultural anthropology.
After graduating, I spent two years in academic research in psychological and medical anthropology — work that eventually became a book: Szamanki w wielkim mieście (Shamans in the Big City) — an exploration of how ancient healing wisdom lives on in urban, modern life.
From Research to Practice
In 2014, I stepped out of academia and into the work directly. I began designing coaching programs for Berlin's startup scene — exploring what it meant to build cultures that actually supported people, not just productivity.
Alongside that, I developed an early pilot project integrating intercultural female wellbeing through dance and bodywork — a seed of what would later become a much deeper practice.
At the same time, I was building a parallel career in People & Culture, working inside organizations to co-shape systems that genuinely supported human potential and mental health.
I saw patterns repeat across companies, teams, and individuals — the same exhaustion, the same pressure, the same quiet unraveling beneath a functional exterior.
And I began to notice the limits of what coaching could do.
The Question Coaching couldn´t answer
Over time, I began to see the limits of working with insight and mindset alone. We can understand a pattern very clearly and still find ourselves reacting in the same way. Anxiety, chronic stress and emotional overwhelm are not only cognitive experiences — they are also felt in the body, shaped by emotion, attention, habit and the nervous system.
I wanted to understand that gap between knowing something and actually being able to experience it differently.
So in 2019 I began studying psychology, and in 2022 started the practical training toward my license as a Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie, which I completed in 2024. Along the way, I specialised in cognitive-behavioural approaches, ACT, mindfulness, somatic and emotion-focused methods, bringing them together with my earlier work as a yoga, meditation and mindfulness teacher.
Over time, emotional regulation became the thread connecting all of this work. I became increasingly interested not only in what happens during a conversation, but in what happens afterwards — when an emotion returns, an old pattern is activated, or something we thought we had understood still feels unresolved.
CalmA grew from that question. It is a way of extending the work into everyday life through guided experiences, Emotional Resets, audio practices and personalised support — helping people learn how to meet difficult emotions differently, understand what they tend to carry, and gradually create more space for the rest of life.
When in-person support feels helpful
The programs are designed to work online. If, at some point, you feel that meeting in person would support the process, sessions are also available in my Berlin studio.
Living and working in a culture that isn't your own adds a layer to everything — to stress, to identity, to the way you relate to yourself and others. I understand that context personally and professionally.
My sessions are primarily in English. If you feel more comfortable in another language, I also work in Polish, German, and Spanish.