I am Donca Vianu, MD, a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with 40 years of work experience spread over different countries and cultures. I experienced totalitarian Romania during the communist era and Ceausescu's dictatorship, post-war post-Nazi Western Germany, progressive, liberal Dutch democracy, India's spiritual tradition, Southern Europe – Portugal and, by serendipity, Brazil.
Throughout my career, besides receiving different trainings in psychiatry and psychotherapy, I pursued two other passions: art and spirituality. Ayahuasca came into my life in 2004, after I attended a lecture about it given by Benny Shannon, a professor of cognitive psychology at the university in Jerusalem, at a conference on consciousness in the UK. Since that encounter, my life has revolved around Ayahuasca and other entheogenic ceremonies. My drive is spiritual evolution - I have been a spiritual seeker for many years, following Eastern traditions.
As a psychiatrist, I worked in psychiatric clinics and institutes for mental health care while sustaining my own private practice.
As a psychotherapist, I trained in Rogerian and Gestalt psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, EMDR, Transcultural Psychiatry, and Cognitive Behavioral psychotherapy. Lately, in 2018 and 2019, I extended my practice of Hypnotherapy with Regression to Previous Lives, a technique I learned in New York with Paul Aurand, MHt.
My interest in spirituality led me to study comparative religions and later Buddhist psychology with Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen Master, poet, and peace activist. A three-year course with Annette van der Berg on the Vedic science of Chakras at the School voor Effectieve Intuitie of Carolina Bont inspired me further.
In the same vein, I studied the Sacred Feminine with Paule Salomon, a philosopher, author of "La Femme Solaire," and "La Sainte Folie du Couple," followed by a study of Shaktism, or Tantric lore – the ten cosmic powers, the Mahavidyas.
In 2017, I became interested in shamanism and learned to work with the Four Directions (Wheel of Life, Medicine Wheel) with Daan van Kampenhout, a shaman trained with Lakota and Sami shamans, author of many books, among others "The Tears of the Ancestors."
I am also specialized in the Integration of Psychedelic Experiences.
My love for art led me to a two-year training in theater with Luc de Smet, the founder of De Kleine Academie in Brussels, followed by dance classes with Naomi Duveen from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. Additionally, I studied painting with Han ter Keurs and Frits van Tiel.
Eventually, I followed a course on Creativity, Change, and Innovation at the Open University in the UK and later conducted workshops on Fundamentals of Creativity.
I am married to Sanjay Gupta from New Delhi, India, an eye- and orbit surgeon. Sanjay is also trained in Ayurveda and Chinese Traditional Medicine.
For the past five years, Sanjay and I have lived in the middle of nature, in Portugal's countryside.
I coach people online who want to work on themselves with the help of the methods, professional expertise, and life experience I offer.
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