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.
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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.
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But it was a two-year detour to Mexico that changed everything.
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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.
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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 mieÅ›cie (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.
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And I began to notice the limits of what coaching could do.
The Question Coaching couldn´t answer
I started to see the limits of what coaching could do. Anxiety and chronic stress don't respond to mindset work alone — and no goal-setting framework helps when someone's nervous system is dysregulated. The body holds years of accumulated pressure in places that reframing thoughts simply can't reach.​
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To really help people, I needed to understand the nervous system. How the brain works under stress. The mind-body connection — not as a concept, but as something you can actually work with in a session.
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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. Alongside, I specialized in cognitive behavioral techniques, ACT, mindfulness, somatic and emotion-focused methods, integrating everything I had learned as a yoga, meditation, and mindfulness teacher.
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AlignPaths grew from all of this. Not as a brand, but as a natural continuation of the same question I've been asking since Mexico: how do we help people find their way back to themselves?
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CalmA Collective came later — born from what I kept seeing in my 1:1 work. Not everyone is ready for therapy, or able to commit to it right now. But they still need a way in. The Collective is that space — self-paced online programs with gentle guidance, for those who want to do the inner work in their own time.
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Online & In Person — Berlin and Beyond
Therapy should fit your life, not add to the pressure.
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I offer sessions online and in person at my practice in Berlin. Online works beautifully for many people — it removes the commute, fits more easily into a busy schedule, and means that travel, transitions, or life disruptions don't have to interrupt the work.
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In-person sessions offer a different quality of presence — and for some people and some topics, being in the same room matters.
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We can talk through what makes most sense for you in our first conversation.
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.
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My sessions are primarily in English. If you feel more comfortable in another language, I also work in Polish, German, and Spanish.