TESTIMONIALS
What my clients say
I. R.
Without a doubt, working with Regula was one of the best decisions of my life. She is the first therapist who truly helped me connect with the deeper parts of myself and experience real healing. Her patience, warmth, and genuine understanding created a safe space in which I could explore my trauma and feel completely safe while doing so. I’m incredibly grateful for who she is, and I know I wouldn’t be where I am today without her.
C. M.
Dear Regula, thank you from the bottom of my heart for everything up to this point. Our sessions have been life-changing for me. Warm regards, Caro
S. K.
Working with Regula has been — and continues to be — invaluable to me. Especially in turbulent times, our work helped me gain new perspectives. My thoughts often feel like a whirlwind, and it’s hard for me to find clarity. In our sessions, I could feel that clarity returning again and again.
I got to know myself better, recognised limiting beliefs, and worked with them. Regula is a deeply empathetic therapist. She didn’t hand me solutions — she showed me what was already within me, and what potential I carry. For that, I’m profoundly grateful.
A.S.
For many years I struggled with low self-esteem, depression, and the feeling that I wasn’t satisfied in my intimate relationships. When I was looking for a new psychological counsellor last year, I knew I wanted someone who could help me understand these patterns better — through a combination of talk therapy and body-oriented approaches.
Over the past year, working with Regula, her deep empathy and her understanding of how early childhood experiences shape adult relationships have led to meaningful changes in how I relate to myself and understand my relationships. I’ve noticed a significant decrease in my depression and a greater ability to meet myself with compassion. I’m very grateful for the way Regula holds space for my challenges and emotions.
J.B.
I came to Regula when I realised I was reacting to things in ways that seemed quite extreme, even though the situations weren’t particularly intense. I was constantly on the defensive.
I hesitated to seek help because I thought I didn’t have a real reason to see a therapist — or that my reasons weren’t a “proper” problem. I thought therapy was for people who had experienced severe trauma. I didn’t believe my own trauma or problems justified therapy. I thought I had to manage on my own.
Through therapy, I learned to see things differently. It helped me realise that everyone has things in their life that are hard to deal with. It’s okay to ask for help. It’s okay to not be okay. It’s okay to feel afraid, angry, or sad. And I came to understand that these feelings don’t have to control me.
Feelings are real and difficult — but they’re also wonderful, and they deserve our attention. They’re telling you something you need to hear. Trust that everyone goes through hard times — times that feel impossible. But there are people around you who can help make those times feel a little less impossible. I have tools to help myself now. Sometimes they work. Sometimes I need support for them to work again. And that’s okay.
E.B.
I don’t know how long this feedback will end up being, but I want to share my experience with Regula in detail so you can get a sense of the life-changing experience you’re considering.
Regula wasn’t my first therapist — she was actually my third. As a psychology student with my own experiences with psychologists, it took a few attempts and detours to find the right kind of therapy for me. Since childhood, I had been conditioned to live in my head rather than in my feelings — essentially outside of my own body — so my first therapists were… surprise, surprise: more thinkers than feelers. They asked questions to analyse the problem more precisely and tried to find diagnoses and “solutions” for my topics. And while I don’t think that approach is inherently bad — and it can be helpful for some people — I left those sessions each time feeling even more alien, even more disconnected from myself and from my body. I walked away with the sense that my problems were so big that nothing could ever “fix” them.
At the same time, I knew I had my share of traumatic experiences. On my own path, however, I came to realise that there are no problems that cannot change with the right approach — or the right therapy.
In 2023, after a long break from therapy and a series of decisions I had made for the first time more with my heart than with my head (thank you, yoga and meditation!), I read Gabby Bernstein’s book Happy Days, in which she writes about somatic therapy and how it helped her with topics her previous therapists couldn’t reach.
That stayed with me so deeply that I decided to try it myself. I literally googled “somatic therapy Zurich,” and every time Regula’s photo came up, I felt a small “this is it” inside me.
It was so relieving to see that Regula hadn’t followed the “typically cognitive, not-at-all somatic” therapy path, but had specialised deeply in somatic healing methods and mindfulness (among other things). Very quickly in our sessions, I realised: this was exactly what had been missing in my therapy so far. I had been so focused on talking about my traumatic experiences — but with Regula, I felt them. Some of them for the very first time, even though I had been speaking about them for years. In Regula’s sessions, it became clear to me that thinking about feelings and truly feeling them are two completely different things.
Regula gave me a safe, warm, and authentic space where I could show up with my whole being — without fear of being judged. You can feel that she has done a lot of inner work herself, because she was a wonderful container for my emotions — no matter how “ugly” I sometimes perceived them to be. I know very few people who can hold space the way she can — it’s deeply inspiring.
I wouldn’t claim that I’m “fixed” now — I know by now that this isn’t the point of therapy, and that no one is ever simply “fully repaired.” But I’ve received many valuable tools from Regula that I carry with me everywhere, and that I can apply easily. And that’s exactly what’s wonderful about it — because for me, that is the purpose of therapy: to strengthen you so that one day you can strengthen yourself — without needing to depend on your therapist to feel okay.
And I’ll admit 🙂 — sometimes, when I’m really struggling, I still imagine Regula’s warm energy wrapping around me from the inside, just like in our sessions. But even that has become a tool for me — a gift from the work with her — something I can use anywhere in the world, for free.
In summary: thank you, Regula, for everything. For the work you’ve done within yourself, and for the path you chose. You often told me that your work as a therapist feels sacred to you — and I could always feel that. I wish you all the success and abundance in the world, and of course I would wholeheartedly recommend you to anyone looking for a therapist.
D.A.
For me, seeing a therapist wasn’t new. However, a few years had passed since I’d last been in therapy regularly. I chose a session with Regula because I knew I wanted to grow in my self-perception and strengthen my ability to be vulnerable.
In our sessions, I deeply appreciated Regula’s willingness to let me move at my own pace, and her full acceptance of where I was. Over the past year, I’ve become much more sensitive to how deeply my body and emotions are connected, and how I can develop more self-compassion in these situations. I know I wouldn’t have made this progress without her.
M.R.
Why I decided to book a session: I specifically wanted to work with a therapist on processing feelings in my body.
My biggest doubts:
I’ve already done so much therapy! I hadn’t had an individual therapist for a while and wasn’t sure if I really “needed” it. Then I experienced several traumas — and it became more than clear that the time had come!
What changed for me:
Representing the people and situations in my life with stones was a profound experience. Giving expression to the shapes, weights, and colours that matched my inner experience helped me enormously to make my intuition visible. I felt like I was wandering without direction — and our sessions very quickly helped me recognise what I most needed to do — or not do — in each moment, and to focus on that.
A.P.
At some point on our path through life, we must face our past — the events we lived through and the feelings that follow us, shaping our present and often our future. As a famous author wrote, the past is not fixed and unchangeable. We cannot simply remove its darkness; instead, we add more light to it, little by little, and refine it — like cutting a diamond. With faith, willpower, and, as I would add, with a great deal of love.
Regula cannot bring this light into our past for us. That is our task — and ours alone. But in Regula, I found kindness, warmth, and a safe space. Through that, I was able to find the strength to look for this light within myself. It wasn’t always easy; the past can be very dark and painful. But the only way out is straight through.
Regula’s reflections, her advice, and the work we did together remind me every day that it’s worth walking my path — and that the past doesn’t have to remain an eternal, dark place. The light exists — and it is already part of us. Sometimes, however, we need someone to remind us. For me, that person is Regula.
C.S.
Working with Regula enriches my life in so many ways. Her warmth, calm, and wisdom immediately earned my trust. At the same time, Regula works with great expertise and professionalism, which gives me a sense of safety. Whether I already know exactly what I want to talk about, or we find the topic together, I leave each time with new insights and greater inner strength. For me, every meeting with Regula is the definition of self-care.