About Me
I’m Joanna Bauer-Savage — an integrative medical doctor, facilitator, coach, and writer based in Berlin.
Integrative Medical Doctor
My work sits at the intersection of medicine, psychology, and transformational practice, and is shaped as much by lived experience as by professional training.
I trained and worked internationally as a physician, including in New Zealand, Ireland, and Germany and as a consultant for the World Health Organisation in Geneva. Those years gave me a strong integrative, systems-based lens on health — one that looks beyond symptoms to meaning, context, trauma, and personal agency.
I’m deeply interested in how bodies speak, how stories shape healing, and how people make sense of what’s happening to them.
Alongside clinical medicine, I’ve spent many years navigating different healthcare systems — both professionally and personally.
This has given me an intimate understanding of what it can feel like to be a patient: the vulnerability, the power imbalances, the moments of rupture, and the quiet resilience required to keep advocating for oneself.
Coach & Group Facilitator
In recent years, I’ve expanded into professional coaching and facilitation. I trained with Animas in the UK, an International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited pathway towards becoming an Associate Certified Coach (ACC).
My work draws on attachment theory, analytical psychology, trauma-informed practice, and embodied approaches to change — always with an emphasis on partnering, consent and saftey.
Founder of Wild Woman Reborn
I’m also the founder of Wild Woman Reborn — a growing platform and body of work offering workshops, courses, and longer transformational journeys individually and in community, both in Berlin and online.
These spaces explore themes such as identity, purpose, power, desire, boundaries, healing after rupture, and the integration of feminine and masculine inner forces. They are experiential, grounded, relational and carefully held — inviting depth without bypassing, and transformation without force.
Author & Thriver
I’m currently writing a book — a self-help guide and memoir exploring how to reclaim your health within modern healthcare systems through an integrative medical lens. The book brings together clinical insight and lived experience, offering a perspective that moves beyond symptom management toward meaning, context, and the possibility of deep, sustainable change.
Drawing on both my work as a physician and my own lived experience with complex health challenges — including the genetic connective tissue condition hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), often accompanied by mast cell–related and inflammatory presentations, as well as a past experience of autoimmune seronegative spondyloarthritis — the book reflects my belief that healthcare works best when people are supported to become informed, resourced, and actively engaged in their own process.
Alongside medical insight, it explores how deeper personal transformation and integration can become part of a meaningful and sustainable healing journey.
Lover
An archetypal exploration of intimacy, agency and conscious connection.
The Lover in me has evolved through different relationships inviting emotional maturity, honest communication, and responsibility for my own needs. Relationships have offered powerful containers for growth, teaching me about intimacy, differentiation, repair, and the courage to evolve over time. This path has been one of learning to stay present with myself while meeting others — holding boundaries, self-regulation, and intimacy as conscious practices shaped through experience.
As my sense of self continues to expand, I embrace a non-binary experience of identity and an approach to connection that moves beyond traditional structures. This personal journey continues to shape how I hold relational spaces — grounded in consent, and inviting honesty, agency, and conscious connection within complexity.
Mother
An archetypal journey of devotion, responsibility, and presence.
Motherhood has been one of the most formative threads in my life. Mothering my daughters — three children in four years, through seven international moves and at times with very little support — taught me about devotion, responsibility, limits, and the quiet discipline of staying present through change. It asked me to balance relationships, work, health, and my own needs while remaining attentive to theirs.
This path has been as much about repair as it has been about love: learning to stay accountable, to make good where possible, and to interrupt patterns so they are not unconsciously passed on. I carry deep respect and gratitude for each of my daughters, and for the way this journey continues to influence how I hold space, relate to others, and walk through the world.
A Fusion of Science, Soul & Global Experience
With a unique blend of clinical expertise and lived experience, I support individuals seeking transformation in health and living a life with purpose. I’ve practiced medicine in Ireland, New Zealand, and Germany, and led an integrative medical practice in New Zealand, specializing in women’s health, mental well-being, gut health, and autoimmune conditions. I’ve worked with global organisations like the World Health Organization (WHO) and Health Focus GmbH, which has given me insight into international healthcare systems, public health policy, and the socio-economic aspects of wellness.
As a mother of three teenage daughters and for twenty years the spouse of a diplomat, I’ve lived in eight countries over two decades. These life chapters have deepened my empathy, adaptability, and commitment to creating inclusive, culturally aware spaces for transformational change and healing.
Having worked with individuals from all walks of life, I bring compassion, presence, and clarity to every coaching session.
My mission is to empower you to reconnect with your authentic self, navigate challenges with confidence, identify and live a life in alignment with your higher purpose and thrive - emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
My Personal Healing Journey
My journey with Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS), overcoming autoimmune disease and healing from PTSD from sexual abuse as a child and medically induced trauma, has taught me the power of personal resilience and the importance of addressing the root cause—not just the symptoms. Living with Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, a rare genetic connective tissue disorder, has touched every part of my life—physically, emotionally, and spiritually. While conventional care from skilled doctors, surgeons, physiotherapists, osteopaths, and bodyworkers played a crucial role, it was through spirituality, inner work, and energetic healing that I shifted from simply surviving to truly thriving.
I am forever grateful for the life-saving power of Western medicine—without it, I would not be here today. My medical knowledge has been vital in navigating the complexity of Ehlers Danlos Syndrom - a condition often misunderstood and underserved by conventional medicine. My personal journey through autoimmune disease revealed the limitations of conventional medicine and opened the door to holistic and complementary therapies. A near-death experience and subsequent spiritual awakening further set me on the path of integrative medicine and deep transformational healing.I combine my clinical background with a soul-led, trauma-informed approach to support others on their path to wholeness.
How I Serve Today
Currently based in Berlin, I offer a range of services grounded in transformational life coaching, spiritual growth, and conscious sexuality, including:
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1:1 transformational coaching sessions online and at Aquariana
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Archetype readings
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Intuitive insights and energy work
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Women’s circles
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Workshops and events
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Online courses
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Public speaking
I’m also writing my first book, which will be accompanied by an online course to make integrative medicine & trauma-informed approaches to health and well-being more accessible.
Let's Work Together
If you're looking for a transformational coach who understands the complexity of health, identity, conscious sexuality and life transitions on many levels, I’m here to walk that journey with you.
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👉 Transformational Life Coaching
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My Vision
Integrative medicine as the future of medicine
My vision is to help pioneer and expand the field of integrative medicine as a leading model for the future of healthcare toward approaches that are more integrative, relational, and responsive to the full complexity of being human.
I believe integrative medicine has an important role to play in the future of healthcare and holistic wellbeing — not as an alternative to conventional medicine, but as a complementary model that broadens how we understand healing, health, and agency.
What Is Integrative Medicine?
Integrative medicine is a whole-person approach to healthcare that combines conventional treatments with evidence-based complementary therapies. It looks beyond symptoms to underlying causes and supports health across physical, psychological, emotional, and spiritual dimensions.
Key principles of integrative medicine include:
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Personalised care tailored to a persons unique lifestyle, values, and goals
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Emphasis on prevention and long-term wellbeing, alongside treatment
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Empowerment through active participation, responsibility and agency in the healing process
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Recognition that true health means more than the absence of disease—it’s about vitality, balance and meaning.
A Call for Change in Healthcare
The current global healthcare systems often do not support the true practice of integrative medicine. Stigma persists around energy healing, spirituality, and conscious sexuality, while trauma and emotional well-being are frequently overlooked. There is a growing need for new paradigms—ones that honour the complexity of human experience and integrate diverse modalities to create truly healing environments.
Working across different healthcare systems, I’ve seen both the extraordinary strengths of modern medicine and its limitations.
Time pressure, fragmentation, and a narrow focus on pathology can leave important aspects of suffering unaddressed — particularly those related to trauma, sexuality, identity with illness, loss of agency, and meaning. These dimensions are not peripheral to health; they often sit at its centre.
There is a growing need for new paradigms—ones that honour the complexity of human experience and integrate diverse modalities to create truly healing environments.
A Focus on Trauma-Informed Healthcare
One of my central missions is to raise awareness about trauma in medicine and advocate for more compassionate, trauma-informed care. By bringing attention to the emotional, energetic, and spiritual dimensions of healing, I aim to contribute to a more inclusive and empowering model of healthcare.
Let's Connect
If you're seeking a guide on your healing journey—or feel called to collaborate, contribute, or support this evolving vision—I would be honoured to connect with you. Please email me on joanna@wildwomanreborn.com.
Together, let’s co-create a new way of being—one that celebrates wholeness, honours diversity, and supports true healing from the inside out.
Qualifications & Trainings
10/2025
Trauma-informed coaching, UKJulia Vaughan Smith
07/2025
Metamorphosis, Berlin, GermanyBased in part on the work of John Heron's work on relational and peer-supported processes and Co-Councelling International (CCI).
02/2025
Transformational Lifestyle Coaching Course, Animas, United Kingdom, International Coaching Federation (ICF) accredited. Associate Certified Coach (ACC) submission December 2025.
11/2024
ISTA Level 2, Bavaria, Germany07/2021Advanced Certification of Resuscitation and Emergency Care, New Zealand
02/2020
Women’s Health Module, Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine
2019 - 2023
Coaching, Mentoring and Training with Sophie Bashford
01/2020
Mary Magdalena Training, Highden, New Zealand
07/2019
ISTA Level 1 Highden, New Zealand
06/2019 - 12/2022
Carolyn Myss Archetype Work with Sonia Moore
05/2019
Joe Dispenza, Advanced Week Long Retreat, Sunshine Coast, Australia
02/2019
Foundation Modules 1&2 Nutritional and Environmental Medicine Australasian College of Nutritional & Environmental Medicine
07/2015
CHEK Exercise Coach, C.H.E.K Institute, UK
07/2014
CHEK Holistic Lifestyle Coach Level 1, C.H.E.K Institute, UK
03/2006 - 09/2014
Master of Science in International Health (MScIH) and Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Public Health (DTMPH), Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany, University of Basel, University of Copenhagen, University of London and University of Heidelberg
06/2004
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, Bachelor of Obstetrics (LRCP & SI MB BCh NUI, Second Class Honors), Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
07/1999
International Diploma of Humanitarian Assistance, Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland und Hunter University, New York, USA
01/1996 – 01/1997
Student Exchange to Japan with a Rotary International Scholarship to Mugikoko High school, Mino City, Japan
02/1990 – 11/1995
Secondary Education, Mercedes College, Perth, Australia
