Donca Vianu, MD is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with 40 years work experience spread over different countries and cultures. She experienced totalitarian Romania during the communist era and Ceausescu’s dictatorship, post-war post Nazi Western Germany, progressive, liberal Dutch democracy, India’s spiritual tradition, Southern Europe – Portugal and, by serendipity, Brazil.

Throughout her carrier, besides different trainings in psychiatry and psychotherapy, she pursued two other passions: art and spirituality.

As a psychiatrist she worked in psychiatric clinics and institutes for mental health care while sustaining her own private practice.

As a psychotherapist she trained in Rogerian and Gestalt psychotherapy, Hypnotherapy, EMDR, Transcultural Psychiatry and Cognitive Behavioural psychotherapy. 

A main area of her expertise is the treatment of complex PTSD.

Lately, in 2018 and 2019, she extended her practice of Hypnotherapy with Regression to Previous Lives, technique she learned in New York with Paul Aurand, MHt.

Her interest in spirituality led to a study in comparative religions and later in Buddhist psychology with Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen Master, poet, and peace activist. A three-year course with Annette vd Berg on the Vedic science of Chakra’s at School voor Effectieve Intuitie of Carolina Bont inspired her further.

In the same vein she studied the Sacred Feminine with Paule Salomon, philosopher, author of “La Femme Solaire,” and “La Sainte Folie du Couple,” followed by a study of Shaktism, or Tantric lore – the ten cosmic powers, the Mahavidyas. 

In 2017 she got interested in shamanism and learned to work with the Four Directions (Wheel of Life, Medicine Wheel) with Daan van Kampenhout, a shaman trained with Lakota and Sami shamans, author of many books, among others “The Tears of the Ancestors.”

Her love for art led her to a two-year training in theater with Luc de Smet, founder of De Kleine Academie in Brussels, followed by dance classes with Naomi Duveen from the School for New Danse Development in Amsterdam. Additionally, she studied painting with Han ter Keurs and Frits van Tiel.

Eventually she followed a course on Creativity, Change and Innovation at the Open University in UK and later conducted workshops on Fundamentals of Creativity.

Donca is married to Sanjay Gupta from New Delhi India, an eye- and orbit surgeon. Sanjay is also trained in Ayurveda and Chinese Traditional Medicine.

For the past five years Donca and Sanjay live in the middle of nature, in Portugal’s countryside.

Dr. Vianu coaches online people who want to work on themselves with the help of the methods, professional expertise and life experience she offers.

She is also specialised in the Integration of Psychedelic Experiences, the harm reduction aspect of it and the resolution of adverse effects.

She does not administer herself any psychedelic substance.