Trauma-informed training
My background includes the Core Evolution Trauma Therapy Training. I am currently a student in the Core Evolution Training.
Individual sessions and Mental Health Walks
Trauma-informed support for people who want to reconnect with themselves.
I work with adults who feel caught in stress, withdrawal, recurring relationship patterns, or far away from their own needs. Together, we create more understanding, steadiness, and choice in everyday life.
Your first individual coaching session is free of charge.
Tallinn · Online · Nature walks · English / German
Sessions
Individual coaching with enough time, a clear frame, and a simple first step.
Individual coaching sessions combine direct conversation, body awareness, pacing, and practical reflection. We look at what happens now, how protective responses make sense, and what becomes possible when there is more choice.
- Format
- Individual coaching
- Duration
- 90 minutes
- Price
- First session free of charge
Then 80 EUR per 90-minute individual session - Place
- Tallinn or online
Mental Health Walks
Weekly 2-hour guided nature walks in Tallinn for people who want to come out of isolation, calm rumination, and give the nervous system different inputs.
We walk in Tallinn nature areas with a simple frame, enough space, and no pressure to talk. Exchange is welcome, silence is welcome, and the walk can happen with one person or in a small group.
- Rhythm
- Weekly
- Duration
- 2 hours
- People
- 1-8 people
- Price
- 20 EUR per person
Training and boundaries
Know early who you would work with and where the limits are.
Coaching with clear limits
I am not a licensed psychotherapist, physician, or diagnostician. Coaching is not crisis care, diagnosis, or medical treatment. You can pause, leave something unanswered, or change direction.
If you are in immediate danger or crisis, contact local emergency services or a qualified crisis service.
Tallinn and online
Individual sessions are available in Tallinn or online. Consent, confidentiality, and a pace that leaves you choice form the frame.
About the work
A careful place to understand what your system learned to carry.
Trauma often shows itself in ordinary life: in tension, withdrawal, pleasing, rumination, mistrust, or the feeling that you cannot fully arrive in your own body.
The aim is not to force a breakthrough, but to build enough steadiness to meet yourself more honestly. The pace matters as much as the content.
How sessions feel
Grounded, respectful, and paced with care.
No pressure to perform
You do not need to tell everything, explain perfectly, or relive painful experiences. We work with what is present and stay attentive to your limits.
The body is included
Thoughts matter, and so do sensations, breath, posture, impulses, and numbness. The body often carries information before words are available.
Patterns are treated with respect
Survival strategies are not failures. They usually began as intelligent protection. Understanding them can open space for different responses.
Who this may be for
For adults navigating trauma-related stress and life patterns.
- Feeling stuck, tense, overwhelmed, or disconnected from yourself.
- Recognising CPTSD patterns, shutdown, hypervigilance, or emotional swings.
- Repeating relational patterns that do not match what you want now.
- Recovering from burnout, numbness, or a long period of functioning on autopilot.
- Moving through a life transition and wanting a steadier sense of direction.
About Andreas
“My own history brought me to this work; my training gives it structure.”
Calm, direct support without spiritual language or quick fixes.
I am Andreas Näf, originally from Switzerland and now living in Tallinn. My own experiences of abuse, trauma, depression, and ADHD shaped how I listen and why self-compassion, honesty, and agency matter to me.
Today I am happily married and a father. My life has shown me that healing rarely means becoming a different person. More often, it means reconnecting with parts of ourselves that had to go into hiding or protection.
My role is not to tell you who you are or how you should heal. Experience gives me empathy, training gives me structure – and neither makes me the authority on your experience.
Professional influences: Judith Herman's Trauma and Recovery, Peter Levine's Waking the Tiger, Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score, and the work of Janina Fisher and Pete Walker's Complex PTSD.
Contact
Send a private first message.
Write a few lines about what brings you here. I reply personally by email, usually within two working days.
Or email directly: hello@andreasnaef.net