Ms Hannah Westphal

Hannah is an incredible therapist who operates with the highest level of professionalism while remaining deeply compassionate and approachable. She created an immensely safe, non-judgmental space where I felt truly seen, validated, and understood. Working with her helped me rebuild my self-confidence and realize my true value and worth. Her somatic guidance allowed me to gently process and release years of built-up anger, teaching me practical ways to regulate my nervous system and restore balance to my whole self. Thanks to her support, I feel more grounded, strong, and empowered than ever before. I cannot recommend her highly enough!

After years of traditional psychotherapy, I finally decided to take a new path—focusing on Emotion Replication Therapy. That is how I came across Ms. Hannah Westphalen, and it was a complete stroke of luck! Ms. Westphalen combines neuroscientific expertise with deep empathy and humanity at the highest level. I particularly appreciate how clearly and practically she explains complex concepts. Through what I reflect on and take away from each session, I constantly notice how well-founded and targeted her therapeutic methods are. A truly special quality that is by no means self-evident these days: genuine humanity always comes first. After intense or emotional discussions, she always takes the necessary time and stays by my side until I am fully grounded and stabilized. It’s not about just going through the motions or "selling" something, but about genuinely helping me in a sustainable way. After every single session, I feel one step closer to the balanced life I desire. I am deeply grateful to have found Ms. Westphalen and can recommend her from the bottom of my heart to anyone, both within my personal circle and beyond!

I found Hannah when I was experiencing such a hard time. I have studied and done inner work for over a decade to help myself and every last thing I had learned up to working with Hannah were not helping at all. I am very ambitious and love the work I do so much but it brought me to a point of stress and anxiety that I thought I'd have to walk away from it to save myself. I am so so grateful for finding Hannah and working with her. She helped me immediately. First by helping me work through the shame and identity crisis I was experiencing, and then by helping me learn what was going on in my body/nervous system. Working with Hannah was the missing piece in all the past work I've done with therapists and coaches, and it's changed the way I operate in work and in life. I can navigate stressful situations in a way I never thought I could, which has helped me build so much confidence, peace, and agency. I am forever grateful to her and look forward to continuing our work together.

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Working with Hannah has been incredible. I am a very ambitious person and try to do everything I can to make sure I stay emotionally well as I continue to work toward my goals. But this time, I got in a spiral I had never experienced, and reached a point where I thought I had to give up my business. I was in a very bad place and even though I have had many tools from prior therapy and life coaching, nothing worked. I just couldn’t find a way to help myself. Hannah helped me understand the science behind my anxiety, as well as learn the language of my nervous system. She helped me see the "fix it" loop my mind and body would automatically go into when I had a setback. She helped me learn how to self regulate so I could work from a grounded state vs. an activated state. My work is so important to me, but never at the expense of my self. And working with Hannah saved my life and my dream. I am forever grateful and will continue to work with her.

I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I began my felt sense therapy journey with Hannah a few months ago, when I was going through quite a turbulent time emotionally with some health anxiety. I have suffered with anxiety and occasionally depression for as long as I can remember and I’ve always tried to run away from or distract myself from these uncomfortable feelings, in the hope that they would go away and not return. What I am learning with Hannah, is that I can stay gently with my uncomfortable feelings (without trying to fix them) and this is giving me new insights and deepening bodily awareness, which has allowed for emotional shifts and release. Felt sense therapy is teaching me about grounding and presence, by slowing down my thoughts and connecting to my body in the present moment and sensing inward. With practise and continual guidance from Hannah, I am learning more and more to stay with this felt sense, I have seen remarkable shifts in my ability to handle difficult and uncomfortable emotional situations and this has also given me new perspectives on old situations and is helping me to not get stuck in the inner monologue of negative thoughts. Working with Hannah is a joy, she is so positive, compassionate and encouraging and her incredible, deep knowledge of neuroscience has helped me to understand the way my brain works in a way I never thought possible! Thank you, Hannah, sincerely for taking me on this journey of self-discovery.

I found my first experience of felt sense polyvagal work really interesting and expansive. It was a fascinating way to explore emotion through the body. I love how the simplicity of the work clarified feelings and revealed my response to a history of events. Hannah is warm, approachable and also has a superb way of explaining the theory behind the work - because I had questions. Highly recommend.

The work I have done with Hannah has been truly lifechanging and transformative.

After undergoing psychological therapy, I decided to follow Hannah’s 12-week program. Understanding the roots of my trauma was an important first step, but I was looking for concrete tools to transform my patterns in daily life. Thanks to her guidance, I was able to deepen my understanding of my trauma-related mechanisms, learn to listen to my body, and reprogram my subconscious. By the fifth or sixth session, I started noticing profound changes in my life—a true sense of liberation. A huge thank you to Hannah for her exceptional work!

Through Hannah's help I’m now able to notice when I’m in survival mode and know what to do to get out of it. Overall I live way, way less in survival mode and I feel much more safe with myself since the beginning of our sessions. In talk therapy I learned a lot about my mind but it never changed how my body would feel. Now through working with Hannah I feel like my body finally understood too.