Counselling &
mental work
- Five-semester training in life and social counselling – psychosocial counselling with systemic methods
- Mental trainer in the Kurt Tepperwein method
Petra Barbara Dreer · Personal guide
Understand what holds you back. Change what still shapes your life.
Some experiences may initially seem entirely unrelated: a situation that keeps repeating itself, a feeling we cannot explain, a sudden impulse or a sentence that stays with us. To me, these pieces usually form a larger picture.
I make the connections between them visible and understandable, and show which patterns, messages and steps forward are emerging. Spiritual and energetic perception, clear analysis and real life all belong together in my work.
Clarity with depth.
Spirituality with both feet on the ground.
“She addressed them all simultaneously, then figured out the connection between them…”
About me
I am Petra.
Even as a small child, I sensed many things quite naturally, without having words or explanations for them. When nobody speaks about such experiences, they remain nameless for a child.
During my childhood, my father became deeply involved with spiritual subjects – and quite naturally involved us children too, whether we had asked him to or not.
His stories and explanations gave names to many things I had already felt. He did not create these perceptions; I had known them long before. But he gave me a language for them.
The visible path
Reason, responsibility and a discerning eye
For a long time, I showed little of this outwardly. I mainly lived the part of me that was rational, capable and resilient. I studied law, specialised in social law and worked in this field for a total of 16 years: first for 6.5 years as a lawyer representing cases in court, followed by 9.5 years in a leadership role. In this position, I was responsible for around 60 employees.
Even there, many of the qualities that naturally belong to me were already at work. I recognise patterns and contradictions. I often see early on where something does not fit and what would need to change.
In social law in particular, my work was less about defeating an opponent. I had to look closely: What happened? What is a person entitled to under the applicable rules? Where does the existing situation fail to match those rules? And what would be needed to correct it?
6.5years as a lawyer representing cases in court
9.5years leading around 60 employees
35when I was promoted to head of department
My abilities were recognised. At the age of 35, I was promoted to head of department. At first, I was the youngest head of department and the only woman in such a position in my field. By conventional standards, I was not merely on a secure path – I was professionally successful and had achieved much of what people say we should aspire to.
Inside, it felt different. I tried to fit in and succeed in a life that was not truly mine. But the longer I did so, the more exhausted and empty I became. I felt less and less like I was truly myself within it.
Eventually, I left my profession and leadership position. Not because the lawyer in me was wrong.
I left a life in which only this part of me had a place.
Today
What seemed separate for so long now belongs together.
These different sides come together in my work today: the lawyer’s clarity and precision, my natural ability to recognise hidden connections, and my spiritual and energetic perception.
I do not guide people as someone who has already found every answer. My own path continues too. I question, learn, let go of explanations and keep discovering what it takes for an insight not to remain within us, but to change the life we actually live.
I believe that challenges can move us to grow. Often, we only change something once the path we have been following becomes too narrow or too painful. Without this friction, we would probably allow many things to continue as they are.
To me, this does not mean glossing over every form of suffering or claiming that everything had to happen exactly as it did. But a difficult experience does not have to remain merely a painful memory. When we understand what it is showing us and allow that understanding to change something in our lives, it can become wisdom over time. I walk this path myself – and I accompany others along it too.
“The holistic and versatile approach impressed me greatly. With exceptionally helpful tools, I now move through everyday life feeling strengthened.”
Training & experience
Different paths.
One integrated view of the person.
My work did not grow from one single method. It brings together psychosocial counselling, mental training, knowledge of the body, meditation, and spiritual and energetic approaches.
These trainings give me different ways of approaching what shapes a person: their story, thoughts and feelings, physical responses and energetic perception.
I do not work from a rigid formula. I bring together the approaches that help make connections visible, allow an insight to be truly felt and turn it into something that changes a person’s life.
Counselling &
Body &
meditation
- Twelve-month Satyananda Yoga Nidra® instructor training
- Meditation instructor in the Kurt Tepperwein method
- Touch for Health I–IV – Vienna School of Kinesiology and International Kinesiology College
Energetic
work
- B.E.R.T. Expert – Radionic and Cell Communication
Seelenflüstern
Life as the language of the soul
The soul rarely speaks in complete sentences.
It uses our lives as its language.
It may speak to us through situations and feelings, through challenges, impulses, intuition and sudden ideas. Sometimes a passage in a book, another person’s words or a meaningful coincidence touches us in a particular way.
But this whisper is quiet. Amid the noise of everyday life, between distractions, fears and the same recurring patterns and dynamics, we often no longer hear it. We may sense that something is not right, yet be unable to grasp what our life is trying to show us.
This is where my work begins.
I work much like an interpreter. I recognise how experiences, feelings, recurring situations and inner impulses are connected, and translate what they reveal into a language you can understand and use in your own life.
This translation provides orientation. It helps you understand why something is appearing in your life now, where it belongs in the larger picture and what new boundary, decision or action it may make possible.
“[…] an unerring instinct for where she needs to look more closely or ask further questions when someone brings a problem to her.”
The foundation
Open to the unseen.
Clear about what reveals itself in life.
I believe in the soul and that we as human beings are not only physical and psychological, but also energetic beings. This understanding is the foundation of my work.
You do not need to follow a religion or believe anything in particular. What is needed, however, is an openness to the possibility that a person may be more than their body, thoughts, behaviour and life story so far.
Listening to our inner world does not mean blindly following every feeling. Fear, habit and exhaustion can feel convincing too. This is why we look closely: What are you truly sensing? What else is playing a part? And what do you still perceive when other people’s opinions and expectations enter the picture?
In my work, we can look at soul, body, mind, energy and everyday life together. I do not want to deny the unseen, while at the same time treating what we perceive and conclude from it with care.
From insight into life
Insight can change the life we actually live.
Once we recognise where our soul wants to lead us, the second part of the journey begins: Do we move in that direction? Or do we allow fear, resistance and the first stones in our way to turn us back?
Following our own soul does not mean that challenges, pain or loss disappear. Challenges remain part of life and can help us grow precisely because of this.
I do find, however, that less unnecessary friction arises when we do not continually live against what we have long sensed within ourselves. When inner signals are repeatedly ignored, the tension often becomes visible elsewhere – in recurring situations, relationships, decisions, feelings and sometimes in the body too.
This does not mean that an illness, pain or accident simply arose because someone failed to listen to their soul. Physical symptoms and illnesses can have many possible causes and require medical assessment. But I do not want to exclude the body from the overall picture of a human being either.
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Understanding and feeling are one half of change for me. The other begins when an insight leads us to make different decisions and take different action.
This is why we also ask: What will be different in your everyday life as a result? Which boundary, decision or action follows from it? And how will you later recognise that something has genuinely changed?
“What was special — or rather, the great step I was able to take with you and the group — was experiencing and living my own agency. […]
When I think back to the first day, I felt torn, overwhelmed and without direction. Today, I am writing to you from a completely different perspective. I can feel what fulfils me. I have said yes — with all the consequences and challenges — and I am putting it into practice step by step. Not from a place of overwhelm, but with clarity, with focus, with my inner YES.”
This is not about a life without challenges. It is about reducing the additional suffering and the energy we spend when we keep resisting the path that is truly ours.
A space for your path
Seelenflüstern is intended to be a space where the soul’s quiet voice can once again be heard and understood. A space where we not only recognise where our own path leads, but continue to walk it even when fears and challenges arise.
Working together
How you can work with me.
My work takes different forms. Some are personal and individual; others allow us to explore a theme over a longer period. Here you will find what is currently available and what is taking shape.
Already created
Programmes in which my work has taken form.
The Mirrors journeys took place in small groups and explored different aspects of human experience over a series of consecutive days.
Each Mirror included an audio reflection, questions and exercises for personal awareness, group exchange, radionic evaluations and energetic support. I connected the individual results with what was currently unfolding in each person’s life and made the relationships between them understandable.
The purpose was never merely to understand a subject intellectually. Participants were invited to recognise how a pattern shaped their everyday life, what it stirred within them and what could genuinely change through a different decision.
These journeys later also gave rise to formats in which practical implementation moved even more strongly into focus — including a challenge building on the 6 Mirrors of Sexuality and the 18 Days of Transformation.
Trilogy I
A seven-day journey into the patterns that shape how we seek, allow or reject love. It explored, among other things, the fear of being alone, crossed boundaries, rejection, love as obligation, self-acceptance and the love we allow ourselves to receive.
Eleven days exploring money, value and the ability to receive. The journey moved from personal limits on prosperity, scarcity and financial fears through burden, indecision and making oneself small, towards visibility and receiving with greater ease.
A nine-day journey in which the body was not treated as an opponent or project, but as a partner and expression of one’s own story. The Mirrors explored grounding and presence, the language of the body, boundaries and protection, weight and burden, regeneration, self-judgement, control and the body as a temple of light.
Trilogy II
An eight-day journey through safety, vitality, emotional intelligence, identity, inner guidance, community, surrender and feminine dignity. The Mirrors revealed where femininity is limited by adaptation, inherited roles or self-doubt – and how it can once again be experienced as a living, feeling and self-directed force.
A seven-day journey through strength, achievement, feelings, sovereignty, intimacy, responsibility and the sacred masculine. Its focus was a masculinity that does not derive its value solely from achievement, treat emotion as weakness or seek security through control or withdrawal – a strength able to act with presence, feeling and responsibility.
A six-day journey through desire, touch, longing, boundaries, climax and sacred connection. Sexuality was not limited to sexual experience. The Mirrors traced the whole path by which an inner impulse arises, meets the world, takes form and is finally allowed to be lived – in relationships, creativity, decisions and personal projects.
“That evening, as I was falling asleep, I already felt that something had loosened a little and that I could think about several situations from the past without that oppressive heaviness setting in. […]
In my opinion, you structured it very well. Because you recorded everything and we participants did not have to be present for a live phone call, each of us could move through these 7 days at our own pace. […] For me, the journey was definitely worthwhile!”
“My greatest shift is that I can now truly feel that I want to be seen. […] My daily challenges no longer feel like ‘Oh God, why this?’, but rather ‘What is this situation trying to tell me?’ — or I open the space for a solution without trying to control everything. […]
In my work on the farm, I have always done this quite naturally. In my energetic practice, I always put pressure on myself. And this is where the shift lies.”
“Thank you for your wonderful impulses and for always answering every question in such detail. […]
And thank you to everyone else in the group for your openness and your questions, which sometimes helped me as well.”
Letting Go & Renewal
An individually tailored radionic process over the turn of the year – from 27 December 2025 to 6 January 2026.
The first day brought into view the dynamics and shadow aspects that still stood in the way of truly letting go and making an inner new beginning. The following ten days did not follow a predetermined sequence. Radionics identified individually which impulses each person’s system needed during the process.
This created a process that did not dictate from the outside what ought to change. It followed what emerged within each person – at their own pace and as gently as possible.
A conscious passage between the years: to leave burdens behind, clear inner space and allow something new to emerge.
An experience over time
Andreea R.
More than a year of guidance · Participation in 8 programmes
“I was going through a very difficult time in my life. […] I felt lost. It was as if I had lost touch with myself and no longer knew what I truly wanted from my life.
From that very first program, I was deeply touched by her kindness, by the unique way she puts words together, and by the questions she asks — questions that somehow always manage to take me deeper and help me see the patterns I keep repeating […] and the parts of myself I had been unable to see on my own.
But what impacted me just as deeply was the way she listens. Truly listens. Without judgment.
Before meeting her, I didn’t really trust my intuition. […] I lived mostly in my head.
Through Petra’s guidance, something began to shift. I learned to trust my intuition. I learned to listen to my body instead of constantly trying to override it with my mind. […] I learned to trust myself. I learned to speak up for myself.
At the company where I work, I found the courage to put an end to a situation that was draining my soul. I finally spoke up. I said what wasn’t working for me. I asked for a change — and I got it.
A year ago, I would never have believed I could do that. Today, I know I can. […] And perhaps most importantly, I am no longer afraid of being seen.
What kept bringing me back was that each program revealed a new layer of myself to explore. I never felt like I was just repeating the same process.”
Get in touch personally
Perhaps your next step begins with a message.
If, while reading, you feel that you would like to get in touch, send me an email. Tell me a little about what brings you here and what you would like to share. We can begin with a written exchange and take the next step from there.
office@petra-barbara-dreer.comWould you rather speak to me directly?
+43 664 2312599If I am with a client, I will return your call.