Trauma-Informed  ·  Heart-Centered  ·  Soul-Led

The life you want
isn't built on the outside.
It begins within.

When you reconnect with yourself, the way you experience life naturally starts to shift.

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You Are Not Alone In This

Transformation happens
through safety

So much of what we struggle with is not weakness — it is protection. Patterns formed in moments when we needed to survive often stay long after the danger has passed.

This work creates space for self-awareness, emotional processing, and a gradual return to yourself — so you can build a life that feels more like your own.

Integration  ·  Presence  ·  Embodiment
The Shift

What becomes possible
when you work from
the inside out

Your outer world reflects what is happening within — not as a judgment, but as an invitation. When you begin to understand yourself more deeply, everything starts to move.

This isn't about becoming someone else. It's about coming home to who you already are, beneath everything you were taught to be.

✦ From reacting to responding
Your triggers become teachers. You learn what lives beneath them — and what they were always trying to protect.
✦ From performing to belonging
You stop shrinking or over-explaining. Every part of you is welcome — not despite who you are, but because of it.
✦ From surviving to creating
Decisions stop coming from fear. You build a life aligned with your own values — not someone else's idea of who you should be.
✦ From seeking to knowing
You reconnect to your own intuition — that inner voice that always knew, even when you couldn't hear it.
Dana
Rehorn
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Fellow Traveler
My Story

I know what it feels like
to live completely
out of alignment

For most of my life, I believed safety came from holding everything together.

Achievement.
Control.
Responsibility.
Having a plan.

I studied tax law in Germany and built a life that looked stable from the outside — a government career, a clear path, all the right boxes ticked. But internally, I was exhausted from trying to maintain an identity that never felt true.

I thought resilience meant pushing through. Staying functional no matter the cost. Until eventually, my body stopped cooperating with the life I was forcing myself to sustain.

For the first time, I couldn't think my way through it. I couldn't achieve my way out of it. And I couldn't control what was happening.

Letting go felt terrifying. And yet it was necessary. A surrender into stillness, space, and the uncomfortable void of not knowing who I was anymore.

"I wasn't learning how to become someone new.
I was learning how to stop abandoning myself."

What followed wasn't a search for a new identity. It was a slow unravelling — unlearning, layer by layer, everything I had taken to be true about who I had to be — and beneath it, a gradual coming home to myself.

Returning to yourself does not mean having all the answers. It means letting go of the need to adapt, letting go of fighting yourself, and learning to trust what genuinely feels true for you again.

This experience continues to shape the way I support people today.

A space where they are able to approach themselves with honesty, curiosity, gentleness and compassion.

Trauma-informed training in compassion-focused practice, nervous system awareness, emotional processing, and embodied self-inquiry.

150-hour Compassion Focused Coach Training  ·  The Soul Institute  ·  2026

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The Way I Work

How we work
together

No two people arrive at this work in the same way. Our sessions are shaped around your unique emotional world, lived experiences, and what you are carrying right now.

Rather than following a fixed formula, I draw from different approaches depending on what feels most supportive and relevant for you at any given time.

Exploring the beliefs, thought patterns, and inner narratives that shape the way you see yourself — and the relational patterns you learned to seek safety, love, and connection through.

Beliefs & Attachment

Meeting the younger parts of you that still carry unmet needs or learned ways of coping — with curiosity, gentleness, and care rather than judgment.

Inner Child & Parts Work

Noticing what your body has been quietly holding — through stress, overwhelm, or simply the weight of living. Learning to feel safer in yourself from the inside out.

Somatics & Body Awareness

Developing a more honest, compassionate relationship with yourself — one that holds all of who you are, including the parts you have found hardest to accept.

Self-Compassion & Emotional Processing

Reconnecting with your intuition and inner knowing — and building the small, grounded practices that help you stay present and rooted in daily life.

Intuition & Integration
Perhaps

Perhaps this is where something begins to make sense.

You do not need to have everything figured out
or be “far along”
for any of this to make sense just yet.
Not everything needs to be understood.
Some things are meant to be experienced.

Maybe you are only just starting to question why certain patterns keep repeating, why the same challenges continue to appear in different relationships or seasons of life, or why it seems so difficult to truly rest — without feeling guilty for it.

Or maybe you have already tried many things and are beginning to sense that real change asks for something deeper.

Either way, there may be a reason you found your way here.

Is This For You?

You are in the right place
if this lands

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You are done with surface-level answers. You want to understand yourself at a deeper level — your patterns, your triggers, the parts of you that keep showing up uninvited.
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You want something embodied and real. Not vague or ungrounded. Spirituality as a lens — not a bypass.
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You want to feel fully seen. Without being told who you should be or what you should do. You are here to discover that for yourself.
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You are open to meeting yourself with curiosity rather than judgment. Even the parts you have tried to hide or push away. You sense that they are there for a reason, even if you do not yet understand why.
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You are willing to look honestly at your own patterns. You sense that your outer world reflects something happening within — and you feel ready to gently turn towards what lives within.
Work With Me

One way to begin.
Two ways to take the first step.

Every session is held with trauma-informed care and compassion —
at your pace, and where all of you is welcome, always.

1:1 Mentorship
Ongoing  ·  Personalised  ·  Transformational

Deep, personalised sessions that meet you exactly where you are — exploring what has been keeping you stuck and supporting you in moving forward.

  • ✦Sessions shaped entirely around your process
  • ✦Holistic by nature — integrating body, mind and soul
  • ✦A space that holds all of you — moving towards wholeness, together
  • ✦Gentle accountability for the life you actually want to live
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Free Clarity Call
15 minutes

A genuine space to share what's been coming up — whether that's feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or simply ready for change. We'll explore what you need and see if working together feels aligned.

  • ✦An unhurried conversation — just us
  • ✦Insight into what's keeping you where you are
  • ✦Honest guidance on next steps, whatever they look like
  • ✦No sales pressure
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What Others Have Experienced

Real shifts.
Real people.

"Working with Dana was a transformative experience. With gentle care and guidance, she helped me understand the deeper nature of myself — my past, my patterns — and meet them with love. Through the deep work we did together, I found the most healing space in my entire journey. I am so incredibly grateful for her compassionate space holding, gentle inquiry and remarkable wisdom."

— Damien

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Common Questions

Things people
often ask

What does trauma-informed coaching actually mean? +
It means that everything we explore together is held with care and awareness of how our past shapes us — often in ways we are not even conscious of. Our patterns, reactions and ways of relating to ourselves were formed for a reason. In our sessions, nothing is pushed, rushed or forced. We move at your pace, and you will never be taken somewhere that does not feel safe.
Is this therapy? What is the difference? +
Coaching and therapy are different things, and I want to be honest about that distinction. I am not a licensed therapist. Therapy tends to focus on processing and healing the past; coaching focuses on where you want to go and who you want to become — though I believe the two are deeply intertwined, and my work reflects that. If at any point I feel that clinical support would serve you better, I will say so openly and help point you in the right direction.
Do I need to believe in spirituality or astrology? +
Not at all. I bring these frameworks in as optional lenses — ways of understanding yourself that some people find genuinely illuminating. If they resonate with you, we can explore them. If they do not, we simply will not. What guides our work together is what actually helps you — nothing more.
How long does the coaching process take? +
Honestly, it depends. Real change — the kind that reaches beneath the surface — takes time, and it rarely moves in a straight line. Many people find that three to six months creates the depth needed for lasting shifts. But we always reassess together as we go, and the pace is yours to set.
What happens on the free clarity call? +
It is a simple, honest conversation — 15 minutes, completely free. You share a little about where you are and what has been coming up for you. I listen. Together we get a sense of whether working with each other feels right. There is no pitch and no pressure — just a genuine exchange to see if this feels like the right fit.
Where are sessions held? Do you work online? +
Yes, all sessions take place online via video call — which means we can work together wherever you are in the world. All you need is somewhere quiet and a stable internet connection.
Ready to Begin?

The first step is
just reaching out.

This is your invitation — to put down what you have been carrying alone, show up as you are, and share what is on your heart.

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