A transpersonal psychotherapist and a former Hoffman Process Teacher, Andrea Anstiss has twenty- eight years of therapeutic and healing expertise and an open heart. She is focused on helping her clients heal the child within, transform trauma, addiction and challenging relationships and awaken to a life of abundance, deep self worth and joy. Her manifesto is to facilitate the claiming of preciousness, splendor and aliveness for her clients and students.
In her practice she connects with her international clientele in person and via Skype. Having lived in the Middle East since 1991, she currently lives in Dubai and spends some months each year in the Antipodes. She creates a safe, nurturing space in which she facilitates the unfoldment of her clients deepest dreams, uncovering their hidden brilliance and transforming blind-spots and wounds into potent resources.
She is adept with embodiment and energetic modalities which deepen talk therapy, including nondual healing, bodywork, breathwork (rebirthing and holotropic), movement therapy, Rebonding of the Body (trauma healing) and Usui Reiki. She has taught leading edge personal development seminars throughout the Gulf countries of the Middle East and in the UK.
In 2002 she completed her Masters of Transpersonal Psychology. From 2007 – 2013, she was a teacher with the Hoffman Process UK, presenting on an international stage. As a student of Jinen Jason Shulman, Andrea is currently undertaking advanced studies in Nonduality. Since 1983 Andrea been involved in scores of Humanistic trainings globally. These include the Loving Relationship trainings, UK, Integral Training, Adelaide, movement therapy, Hamburg, Integrated Kabbalistic healing, The Netherlands/ USA.
She is passionate about her work, the blossoming of her client’s lives and the awakening of souls. She loves playing tennis, jogging and skiing. She adores being with her extended family, drinking cappuccinos with her girlfriends and traveling to wild corners of the planet for work and pleasure. She is privileged to be the Mother of two incredible sons. She lives between the desert of the UAE and her retreat in the paradise of Queenstown, Aoteroa.