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.
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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.
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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, archetypal psychology, trauma-informed practice, and embodied approaches to change — always with an emphasis on safety, consent, and psychological literacy.
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
I’m currently writing a book (working title Rebel Patient) — a self-help guide 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Qualifications & Trainings
10/2025
Trauma-informed coaching, UK​Julia Vaughan Smith ​
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07/2025
Metamorphosis, Berlin, Germany​Based 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, Germany​​07/2021Advanced 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
