Tina Michaela Hoffmann, MSc. Psycho-social Counsellor, Dipl. LSB, NARM Trauma Therapy & Trauma Pedagogy.
Tina is a complex trauma specialist, NARM® Master training level therapist, Psychosocial Counsellor (MSc), registered and licensed Psychological Counsellor and trauma educator based in Vienna. She offers expert support for developmental trauma, C-PTSD, abuse recovery, relationship stress or trauma, and cross-cultural stress, working in English, German, and Chinese.
With extensive experience supporting expats, international families, and adults navigating intercultural relationships and relocation challenges, she provides a calm, shame-free therapeutic space where clients feel understood, accepted, and safely guided.
She also leads the global Trauma Transformation Training School, equipping Social workers, teachers, counsellors, NGO staff, and helping professionals with trauma-competence skills that strengthen resilience and prevent burnout.
Tina's work helps people move beyond survival patterns into connection, belonging, and wholehearted aliveness.
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When “I Can’t Reach You” Becomes “They Are Not Reachable”
In many intimate relationships, there is a phase where one partner feels a growing sense of disconnection. It often begins with the thought: “I can’t reach you.” This experience can lead to increased effort—trying to communicate more clearly, offering more understanding, extending more patience, and investing more emotional energy in the relationship. At first glance,…
When shame keeps you responsible for everyone else
Shame, the Shame Spiral, and How NARM Therapy Can Help You Break Free Most people who carry shame don’t recognise it as shame. It shows up quietly — as the pull to apologise before you’ve done anything wrong, the need to fix other people’s feelings, the sense that if you could just be better, everything…
Silent Wife … Holy Wife ?
When the dark night of the intimate relationship doesn’t seem to end – transformational change is required Let’s be honest, when your partner tells you again and again, „You are taking my space away, you are pushing me into the corner!“, something is going really wrong in the most holy of relationships. The wife, trying…
The simplest question in this world – How are you really doing ?
Why can’t we ask it ? And how it impacts us, when we were not asked Imagine a husband asks his wife, a friend asks a friend, a mother asks her daughter, ….. the most simple question: How are you (really doing) ? Imagine that the one asking would be really listening, without fixing the…
Save Your Marriage/Relationship While It Lasts
Do you know couples who never stop fighting and getting frustrated? Change Your Relationship Now Couples bond because they want to stay together. Most of the time there is little awareness of the deeper problems that can arise in the relationship later in time. And that’s a good thing, otherwise many would not take the…
Love and the Golden Cow Worship
Bringing Light to a Phenomena we can find (not only) in Christian Circles My definition of a Golden Cow: A substitute for a wholesome relationship with God and others When the Golden Cow becomes the focus, the relationship is lost – The Golden Cow is worshipped instead of living in a natural, free and alive…