I came to Norway to visit my wife in March 2020. The pandemic meant us choosing to live together, leading me to embrace yet another homeland! It also meant a world crisis, that added new dimensions to my work with acupuncture. I worked with hundreds of people dealing with stress, isolation, anxiety, immune collapse, addiction, or overwhelm!

Healing the Wound of Separation: A Life of Reciprocal Love with Earth

Born in Thessaloniki, Greece, in 1959, my life and work have always been rooted in a deep, reciprocal love relationship with Earth. This love has been my compass, my teacher, and my source of regeneration.

For over four decades, I have walked the path of healing and human development across London, Amsterdam, and now Oslo. From acupuncture clinics to mountain forests, from trauma healing circles to meditative stillness, my work has always been shaped by one central truth:

Healing is not personal. It is planetary.

The Realization
With the pandemic came a rupture—a collective pause where something essential could finally be seen. As the world fell into stillness, I felt the truth I had carried quietly for years:

I had been healing the wound of separation from within the very paradigm that created it.
For 40 years, I practiced in systems that spoke of presence and realization, but rarely spoke of Earth.           We treated the nervous system inside a society that constantly disrupts it.                                                 We taught self-awareness while our communities were collapsing.                                                               We explored Being while Earth was being extracted, burned, and erased.

This realization changed everything.

My Thesis: We cannot separate inner work from our relationship with Earth.

We cannot speak of wholeness while excluding the body of the world.

There is no awakening that bypasses reciprocity.

What we have assumed to be “normal human” is often the colonized, dissociated,                                          traumatized human—disconnected from land, species, and seasonal intelligence.

True human development is ecological.

Biodiversity, including the human soul, thrives in relationship.
We become beautiful in our capacity to relate—to rivers, trees, seasons, ancestors, and each other.

What I Offer
Today, my work is devoted to restoring this relational field. I offer:

Trauma-Informed Acupuncture — Rooted in collective, ancestral, and ecological perspectives
Trainings in Earth-Based Healing —

Plato’s Cave: Healing the loss of Sun-consciousness
Neuro-Linguistic Alignment: Returning thought to Earth
Five Element Therapy: Seasonal and alchemical transformation
Living With the Seasons: Re-indigenizing perception, rejoining life
Courses & Retreats — Grounded in presence, rewilding, and reciprocal learning
Earth-Based Inquiry & Practice — Integrating Diamond Approach, indigenous science,                                   and sacred ecology
I also hold space for those reweaving Earth intelligence into their healing and spiritual work.

My Path
I was trained in acupuncture in London in the 1980s, and practiced in psychiatric hospitals, addiction recovery, and community care. I later founded clinics in London and Amsterdam, specializing in gynaecology, burnout, and emotional regulation.

Alongside acupuncture, I studied NLP, Tibetan Buddhism, collective trauma healing, meridian based body work, and the Diamond Approach for over 25 years. Yet the deepest teachings came from Earth herself—from olive trees, from rivers, from silence.

In Norway, I now live and work close to the river that made Oslo. Here, I continue my inquiry:

How do we become nourishing for life? How do we live as metabolism for the Earth?
Earth as Sacred Partner
This work is not just about fixing symptoms or healing trauma. It is about restoring the collective heartbeat between species.

It is about:

Learning to grieve with rivers
Learning to listen to wind
Letting forests shape our nervous system
Realizing that spiritual practice must include ecological responsibility
Healing is not metaphor. It is re-entry into relationship.
I do not believe in transcending life. I believe in returning to it.                                                                            Again and again. As a lover, a student, and a child of Earth.

Let Us Work Together
If you are a practitioner, seeker, elder, or simply a human feeling the grief of separation and the longing to belong again—this work is for you.

If you are ready to include Earth in your practice—not symbolically, but actually—I invite you to reach out.

I offer mentorship, collaborations, trainings, and healing sessions for those ready to rejoin Earth’s intelligence as sacred ground.

Come back to rhythm.

Come back to reciprocity.

Come back to Earth.
With love and respect,
Katerina

Working experience:

03.2021 –  to now    Oslo Holistic Acupuncture Owner  

Offering acupuncture and massage for stress release in central Oslo. Based on holistic diagnosis to discover the source of disease and design a treatment plan. I treated more than 800 people from many countries.

 03.2003 – 05.2020   Acupuncture practice in Amsterdam                                      Owner

Full-time practice in health center. I specialized in the prevention and treatment of burnout, and in gynaecology.

01.1995 – 01.1995   Holloway Psychiatric Hospital Participating in multidisciplinary practice to treat psychiatric disease

Acupuncture and ear acupuncture for the treatment of addiction, trauma, and psychiatric disorders. Working with the hospital patients to prevent clients from going into psychiatric care or support them to come back to their lives afterward.

03.1984 – 03.1999    Waterloo Acupuncture Center in London                                 Own practice

 I worked with acupuncture, Acupressure, and NLP. Had a big portfolio of regular clients that I treated over a longer period.

                                     Education:

2003 – 2006                Shen Zhu university Amsterdam: Chinese herbs and medical diet

1981 – 2000               4 years to Licentiate of Acupuncture certification, Leamington College, and 3 years                                         to   classical acupuncture certification: cicm, Reading.

1985– 1998                  several courses to NLP master practitioner

1005 -2000                Geomancy, Chinese (fenfg Shui) and Ellenic: Asclepeia

 

Courses/further education:  

09/2023 – 05/2024    Sounds true: Inner MBA program, spirituality in business

2020 – 2024              Collective healing network with Thomas Hubl: Personal, ancestral and collective 

2012 – 2020                 Yair Maimon: Acupuncture for the healing of trauma and psychiatric disorders

2003 – 2023                 Diamond approach: Meditation and inquiry. 3 week retreats every year.

1985– 1998                  Rigpa Tibetan Institute: Tibetan meditation and medicine.

 

Languages:                  Proficiency in Greek, English, and Dutch. Learning Norwegian, level B2

From 1989 Member of the Traditional Acupuncture Society
• From 1996 member of the British Acupuncture Council
• From 2003 member of ZHONG. NVCG: Netherlands Association of Chinese Medicine

• From 2022 member of the Norwegian acupuncture council

Languages: Greek, English, Dutch