We repeat what we haven't learned to feel.
Unconscious protective habits shape how you communicate, protect yourself, and experience love:
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Chronic Over-Functioning: Trying to secure love by managing the relationship, anticipating every need, and holding everything together alone.
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Emotional Self-Reliance: Feeling like it’s unsafe to fully lean on a partner, keeping a subtle wall up even when you long for deep closeness.
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The Autonomy vs. Closeness Trap: Worrying that letting someone fully in means sacrificing your personal freedom, truth, and identity.
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Swallowing Your Truth: Silencing your real boundaries or intuitive signals to avoid conflict, leaving you exhausted and secretly resentful.
Welcome to a trauma-informed, somatic path back to your body and your natural aliveness.
Somatic & Relational Coaching
From Protective Patterns to Embodied Choice
THE SHIFT
As you allow your body and nervous system to feel what they've been carrying, your way of loving transforms:
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Reclaim Your Aliveness: Move from heavy, exhausting effort into an expansive, nourishing spark.
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Speak & Hold Boundaries: Express your authentic truth clearly—without abandoning yourself or closing your heart.
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Respond with Presence: Break defensive reactive loops and stay emotionally anchored during tense moments.
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Stay Anchored in Closeness: Deepen intimacy without the fear of losing your freedom or truth.
A gentle return to your body, your truth, and your natural capacity to love deeply and relate authentically.
Somatic & Relational
Coaching
Rise Into Love™
RELATIONSHIPS| CONSCIOUS RELATING| SELF-CONNECTION
The 4 Core Pillars
Every coaching process is tailored to your unique relational landscape. Together, we move beyond surface conflict to transform the core dynamics shaping your love life:
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Pillar 1: Pattern Recognition & Clarity
Uncover the subconscious attachment loops, survival strategies, and protective habits driving recurring conflict or self-abandonment.
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Pillar 2: Somatic Grounding & Aliveness
Regulate emotional triggers, release stored nervous system tension, and welcome your natural spark back into connection.
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Pillar 3: Conscious Communication & Boundaries
Speak your authentic truth clearly without attacking or shutting down—holding loving boundaries with an open heart.
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Pillar 4: Embodiment & Relational Security
Integrate these shifts into daily life, anchoring a grounded, secure sense of self built on conscious choice and trust.
Approach & Tools
Psychosocial Counselling
A structured, safe space to explore your emotions, relationship dynamics, and gain total clarity on what lies beneath surface conflict.
Body-Centred Coaching
Reconnecting with your body awareness, regulating your nervous system, and staying anchored in your truth during difficult moments.
Relational Patterns
& Inner Work
Uncovering subconscious beliefs, attachment survival strategies, and old protective habits so you can create new ways of relating.
My work bridges psychosocial counselling with trauma-informed somatic practices—combining cognitive clarity with body intelligence:
Who is this for?
Who This Is For
Rise Into Love™ is designed for you if you are ready to look beneath the surface, reconnect with your body, and transform the way you relate.
Whether you are single, dating, or in a long-term partnership, this space is for you if you are:
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Repeating Subconscious Patterns: Knowing intellectually what you want, but feeling your body automatically fall back into old relational habits.
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Stuck in Survival Loops: Experiencing recurring conflict, emotional numbness, bodily tension, or sudden shutdown when closeness deepens.
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Overgiving & Shrinking: Muting your natural spark and people-pleasing to keep the peace—leaving you physically drained and anxious.
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Losing Yourself in Closeness: Struggling to hold clear, grounded boundaries without abandoning your truth or completely closing your heart.
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Navigating Transitions: Moving through a relationship shift and wanting to stay anchored in your body, truth, and self-worth.
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Longing for Aliveness: Ready to step out of relational survival mode and reclaim an embodied, vibrant way of loving.
Step 1: The Gateway Call
50-Minute Relational Pattern Audit — €45
A focused 1:1 relational exploration to uncover recurring patterns, clarify your needs and inner dynamics, and identify practical strategies for more conscious relating. Includes a personalised PDF summary with key insights and next steps.
(100% of your €45 audit fee is credited toward the 2 or 6 Session container if you choose to continue).
The Deepening
Rise Into Love™ 2-Session journey
A focused 1:1 journey to explore your recurring relational patterns, reconnect with your needs and boundaries, and begin embodying new ways of relating with greater awareness, inner safety, and authenticity.
What’s Included:
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2 × 60-Minute 1:1 Sessions over 2–3 weeks (online/in-person sessions available upon request)
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Personalised somatic practices, integration exercises, and recorded meditation and somatic practice videos to support your process between sessions
Investment:
Single Payment: €295
The Deep Transformation
Rise Into Love™ 6-Session journey
An intensive 1:1 journey tailored to your unique relational landscape. Break old patterns, cultivate inner safety, and create lasting embodied change in how you relate to yourself and your loved ones — opening up to greater aliveness, joy, and love from the body up.
What’s Included:
6 × 60-Minute 1:1 Sessions over 8–12 weeks (online/in-person sessions available upon request)
Investment:
Single Payment: €745
Payment Plan: 2 × €385
Meet Paula-Maria Wachsenegger, MSc
I am a licensed Psychosocial Counsellor (Dipl. LSB), certified coach (body-centered) with 500+ hours of 1:1 experience and an academic background in Psychology, Ethics & Business.
My mission through Rise Into Love™ is to support individuals and couples through their deepest relational and personal challenges with presence, empathy, and integrity. I create a grounded, trauma-informed space where subconscious protective habits unfold into clarity, nervous system safety is restored, and sustainable transformation becomes possible and embodied, allowing you to step out of survival mode and reclaim your natural aliveness and capacity to love deeply.
“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there.” — Rumi
Licensed Psychosocial Counsellor (Dipl. LSB)
Body-centered Coach
My Story
From the outside, my life looked like success: degrees in Psychology, Business & Ethics (MSc), a career in London, and an apartment near Hyde Park. Yet underneath, I felt disconnected from my body, my relationship, and my deeper sense of aliveness. I was living a life shaped more by expectation than by what truly felt right for me. I was craving deep connections.
In 2019, a quiet inner call led me to India, where I immersed myself in somatic practices, inner exploration, and transformative teachings. That journey became my personal turning point—bringing me back into deep connection with my body, my truth, and with the most amazing people.
Following this shift, I dedicated three years to training to become a licensed Psychosocial Counsellor and Somatic Coach in my hometown Vienna, Austria.
Today, alongside over 10 years of personal inner exploration and 500+ hours of 1:1 client experience, I support individuals and couples in navigating conflict, understanding subconscious relational patterns, and stepping out of survival mode into conscious, vibrant connection and aliveness.
You don’t need to fix yourself. You’re being invited to understand yourself more deeply, look beneath recurring conflict, and open yourself to an embodied experience of love.
Natalia, Interior Designer
When I reached out, I felt lost and heartbroken. Through her guidance, I reconnected with my own clarity, needs, and boundaries.
She held a deeply safe space for my transformation and helped me step into a new chapter in my life.
Today, I’ve been in a happy relationship with a beautiful man for several years, and I continue to grow within this connection.
Thank you so much.
Emilia, Educational Pedagogue
When I first reached out, I felt stuck and unsure of my direction. Working with Paula-Maria was truly transformative. She helped me reconnect with my inner light and self-love, raise my standards, and rediscover the strength and confidence of my inner queen.
Through deep inner-child and ancestral work, I began to shift old patterns, embrace my worth, and embody a version of myself who feels more confident, radiant, and open to love. I now approach relationships from a deeper connection with myself and welcome more fulfilling connections into my life.
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Teresa, Mentor, Teacher & Creative artist
Working with you has been very transformative for me. I moved from a phase of uncertainty and confusion to greater self-confidence, a deeper love for myself, and more fulfilling relationships.
Your approach and the tools you provided helped me recognise and overcome my own blockages, allowing me to love more deeply.
Amazing work!
