Menopause

During menopause, every woman's life begins a natural and genetically determined process of change. At around the age of 45, the function of the ovaries is reduced, the estrogen level drops and the monthly menstrual cycle becomes increasingly irregular. In about one third of women, menopause occurs and proceeds almost unnoticed without problems or only with mild to moderate symptoms.

However, about one third of women suffer from various and very unpleasant side effects of this change. For many years I have intensively been dealing with menopausal symptoms and their treatment. I am happy to advise you on the nature of menopause and guide you into a new phase of life without challenges. This way, you can rediscover yourself in this time with relish and self-determination.

Complementary medical therapies

I view menopause as part of the female life cycle, and not as a "disease", even though it may be associated with symptoms such as mood swings, depressive and aggressive moods, reduced performance, drive disorders, sleep disorders, sweating and hot flushes, loss of libido, skin and hair changes, dry mucous membranes or weight changes. The complaints last an average of about 2-3 years and can be significantly alleviated by individually tailored therapies, such as constitutional homeopathic treatment, in order to restore balance to body and mind. I would be happy to advise you on complementary medical therapy options that don’t involve hormonal stress.

Menopause, like puberty, is also a time of hormonal change and thus of psychological and physical reorientation. In particular, women that have experienced puberty as unpleasant and menstruation as stressful, usually suffer from severe menopausal symptoms. Hormone replacement therapy has long been propagated as a “fountain of youth” and a panacea, although the effects of long-term treatment can be linked to health risks. Gynecologists are now taking a much more critical view of hormone substitution and utilizing it more cautiously.

I am convinced that menopause is the best phase of a woman's life. It means inner freedom, independence, self-determination and pleasure. However, it requires a little bit of open-mindedness to fully reconsider your prior opinions. Old things have to be let go and new things have to be attempted. If you want to get involved in this adventure, I will take sufficient time to bring you closer to the physiological, medical and archetypal changes of this phase of metamorphosis and to accompany you through these exciting and insightful years of change. Menopausal symptoms are often psychosomatic symptoms that do not necessarily require hormonal treatment. Experience has shown that complementary medicines and systemic coaching are particularly helpful in these cases. According to the motto: "I don’t just feel hot, I am hot too".

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Mag. URSULA DURSTMÜLLER
Certified Yoga Teacher, Psychologist

Education:

  • Certified Hatha-Yoga teacher with specific focus on women such as pelvic floor yoga and hormone yoga
  • Advanced training in different yoga styles and with various national and international yoga teachers
  • Training as a personal pregnancy trainer
  • Study of Psychology (degree from the University of Vienna)

Further Education and Training Courses:

Further training in the yoga tradition after Krishnamacharya with a special focus on individual and therapeutic body work.

  • Fascial pelvic floor training according to Divo Müller
  • Fascial Fitness training with Divo Müller
  • Basic course for fall prevention with Harald Jansenberger

Range of services/important points:

  • Hatha Yoga
  • Yoga for the pelvic floor
  • Yoga for pregnant women
  • Yoga for mothers with babies
  • Hormone yoga
  • Yoga in the tradition of Krishnamacharya
  • Yoga and fall prevention

Senior Physician Dr. ELISABETH LAHNSTEINER
Expert for wound healing, general practitioner

Current functions:

  • Head of the wound healing team at the private clinic Döbling
  • Head of the Wound Outpatient Clinic in the Orthopedic Hospital Speising

An acute or postoperative wound is often an enormous psychological burden for patients. The most modern wound dressings support the body’s own physiological healing process in a cell-activating and anti-inflammatory way and thus leads to rapid wound closure.

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Comprehensive lecture activity, literature constitution, congress and seminar design in cooperation with the specialist societies, regional medical chambers and specialist media
  • Product development and observational studies of modern wound treatment concepts
  • Medical Advisor (medical technology company)

Range of services:

  • Modern wound treatment concepts for acute and chronic wounds
  • Scar treatment
  • Autologous cell therapy (APC)
  • Low Level Laser (Alpha Red 2000)
  • Dermatological shock-wave therapy (Duolith Ultra SD1 Tower)
  • Phototherapy (Repuls, Bioptron)
  • Orthomolecular Supplements (Nutritional Supplements)

Dr. DARA LAZAR
Urologist, General Practitioner

Education:

  • Study of medicine at the University of Vienna
  • General practitioner
  • Specialist in Urology and Andrology with European Specialist Examination F.E.B.U. (Fellow of the European Board of Urology)

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Diploma of advanced studies from the Austrian Medical Association
  • Diploma in nutrition
  • Emergency physician’s diploma

Range of services/important points:

  • Holistic clarification and therapy of chronic recurrent urinary tract infections
  • Bladder pain syndrome, interstitial cystitis
  • Female Urology and Psychosomatics
  • Sexual dysfunction in women
  • Nutritional medicine
  • Diagnosis and treatment of stone diseases (kidney stones, ureteral stones, bladder stones)
  • Urinary incontinence
  • Voiding dysfunctions
  • Sexual dysfunction of men
  • Urological cancer screening, prostate biopsy
  • Urological Ultrasound
  • Sexual dysfunction in men and women
  • Clarification and counselling in case of an unfulfilled desire to have children
  • Urological surgeries: Circumcision, vasectomy, hydrocele surgery, Botox injection of the bladder, urethral dilatation

Scientific Advisory Board of the Self-Help Group for Interstitial Cystitis (ICA Austria)

Mag. BIRGIT KRENMAYR
Systemic Coach, Business Coach, Communication Consultant

Education:

  • Systemic Coach, Systemic Marriage and Family Counsellor (Degree from the Sigmund Freud University Vienna)
  • Certified Business Coach and Communication Consultant (Degree from the Free University of Berlin and University of Vienna)
  • Further training at the Milton Erickson Institute in Heidelberg and at the Milton Erickson Society Austria (including Gunther Schmidt, Reinhold Bartl, Dirk Revenstorf)

Range of services/Situations in which coaching strengthens you:

  • Awareness of personal resources, competencies, potentials and options
  • Strengthening one's own ability to act in the event of a desire for change and in difficult life phases
  • Decision making
  • Strengthening of self-confidence, self-assurance
  • Reduction of fears, delimitation of burdening emotions
  • Management of crisis and conflict situations
  • Career advancement
  • Career reorientation/re-entry
  • Work-life balance

Mag. SABINE KAINZ
Psychotherapist, hypnotic psychotherapy

Education:

  • Curriculum hypnotic psychotherapy (ÖGATAP, Vienna)
  • Propedeutics (ÖAAG, Vienna)
  • Training as a TripleP educational trainer (Institute for psychology J.S.C, Münster)
  • Intensive course in systemic coaching (Vienna)
  • Degree in Pharmacy (University of Vienna)

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Hypnosis for functional abdominal pain (Dr. Gabriele Moser, Vienna)
  • Birth preparation with hypnosis (Helga Hüsken-Janßen, Coesfeld)

Trauma-specific training:

  • Curriculum Ego-State Therapy (Woltemade Hartmann, MEGA, Vienna)
  • Saving the Inner Child (Gabriele Kahn, ZAP Vienna)
  • Work with perpetrator introjects (Dr. Jochen Peichl, ZAP Vienna)
  • Reversal of dissociative amnesia (Gabriele Kahn, ZAP Vienna)

In resource-oriented hypnotic psychotherapy, creative parts of the unconscious are used through therapeutic work with a changed state of consciousness. Because of this, new ways for problem solving and personal development become accessible. Experiences from the past, which emerge and are processed during the hypnotic trance, can be of importance for the treatment of current problems.

Range of services:

  • Hypnotic psychotherapy
  • Abdominal hypnosis
  • Birth preparation with hypnosis
  • Ego-State Therapy

Mag. DORIS ASPERGER-BAZAZAN
Psychologist

Education:

  • Training as a kindergarten teacher (Federal Educational Institute for Kindergarten Education, 1080 Vienna)
  • Learning difficulty trainer (Lower Austrian relief organisation)
  • ADHD trainer (Lower Austrian relief organisation, quality committee for dyslexia)
  • Studied Psychology at the University of Vienna
  • Further training as a clinical and health psychologist (BÖP)
  • Entry in the list of private psychologists

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Curriculum Child, Youth and Family Psychology:
    • "Diagnostics of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorders"
    • "Possible applications of projective testing methods in the work with children and adolescents"
    • "Differential diagnosis of specific disorders in children and adolescents"
    • "Personality disorders in children and adolescents"
    • "Possibilities and limits of psychological diagnostics in cases of suspected sexual abuse in children and adolescents"
    • "Relaxation methods for children and adolescents"
  • "Families undergoing change. Separation, divorce and patchwork life"
  • "Work with Genograms and family/system boards"
  • "Video-based parent counseling at home"
  • "Children of mentally ill parents"
  • "Diagnosis of attachment disorders"
  • "Attachment disorders and autism"

Range of services:

  • Clinical psychological diagnostics for children and adolescents
    • Problems with school performance (dyslexia, dyscalculia, etc.)
    • Attention problems (AD(H)D)
    • Developmental diagnostics (language, cognitive development, ability to attend school, etc.)
    • Behavioral deficits, anxieties, compulsions, depression, psychosomatic complaints, trauma, etc.
  • Educational counselling
  • Divorce advice §95
  • Clinical psychological treatment of children and adolescents (relaxation training, AD(H)D training, emotion regulation, etc.)

PETRA SALZL, BSc, MSc
Physiotherapist

Education:

  • Study of physiotherapy at the FH Campus Wien (graduation in 2011)
  • University course MSc in sports physiotherapy at the Olympic Center Rif, University of Salzburg (graduation in 2016)

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Kinesiotaping
  • Puerperal and recovery gymnastics
  • Advanced training in the field of visceral therapy:
    • Desire to have children, pregnancy, birth and puerperium
    • Urogenital tract, hips and spine
    • Digestion
    • Craniosacral techniques
  • Physiological nutrition

Range of services:

  • Rehabilitation after surgery
  • Physical therapeutic measures
  • Manual Therapy
  • Pelvic floor and recovery gymnastics
  • Visceral Therapy
  • Craniosacral Techniques

VALERIE SCHIEDER, BSc.
Physiotherapist

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy at the IMC University of Applied Sciences Krems (degree: 2014 with Bachelor of Science in Health Studies)
  • Currently employed as a physiotherapist at the private clinic Döbling and freelance-work in her own practice

Further Education and Training Courses:

Ongoing completion of various modules at the School for Visceral Therapy in Mattsee since 2017

Range of services:

Specializes in

  • Therapeutic gymnastics after operations and for diseases of the musculoskeletal system
  • Visceral therapy: This therapy encompasses and considers the connection between the musculoskeletal system and the organ system, since all organs are attached to the skeleton and can therefore also cause problems in the spine, hips, shoulders, etc..

Visceral therapy mainly focuses on the organ system to solve these problems. In addition, exercises from physiotherapy are shown to achieve the best possible result.

Areas of application include digestive problems (such as flatulence, constipation, gastritis, reflux, rapid feeling of fullness (bloating) often in connection with spine complaints), problems of the urogenital tract (including Bladder inflammation, menstrual complaints), respiratory problems (including bronchitis, constant clearing of the throat, frequent hiccups often in connection with shoulder complaints) and headaches (including dizziness, tinnitus, TMJ complaints, migraine, teeth grinding, braces).

Astrid Doppler
Massage Therapist

Education:

  • Medical masseuse (graduation 2009 at the Manus Massage School)
  • Massage therapist (graduation at the Manus massage school)
  • Massage therapist with authorization to teach (graduation at the Manus Massage School)

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Kinesiotaping (2010)
  • Scar removal (2012)
  • Fascial Release (2013)
  • Functional Osteopathy and Integration, Part 1 (2014)
  • Craniosacral Therapy (2016)
  • Cupping/Moxibustion/Gua Sha (2017)
  • Treatment of the temporomandibular joint – TMJ (2017)
  • Shiatsu in training (since 2018)

Range of services:

  • Classical (Swedish) Massage
  • Lymphatic drainage or complex physical decongestion therapy (CDT)
  • Cupping/Gua Sha
  • Fascial therapy
  • Scar treatment/reduction
  • Kinesiotaping
  • Trigger point therapy
  • Foot reflexology massage
  • Ear reflexology massage

Dr. NICOLE GERSTL
Pediatrician, Neonatologist

Education:

  • Training as a specialist in pediatric medicine (University Clinic for Pediatric Medicine, AKH Vienna)
  • Training as an additive medical specialist for neonatology and pediatric intensive care (University Clinic for Pediatric Medicine, AKH Vienna)
  • Currently working as senior physician at the neonatology ward of the AKH Vienna and also as a consultant physician at the private clinics Goldenes Kreuz, Döbling and Rudolfinerhaus where she is responsible for the primary care of newborns in the delivery room
  • Ongoing training in the field of general pediatrics and intensive care

Range of services:

  • General pediatric work with mother-child pass examinations
  • Premature infant care
  • Check-ups
  • Developmental neurological examination
  • Blood sampling
  • Vaccinations
  • Cranial ultrasound

Languages: German, English, French, Hungarian

Senior Physician Dr. GUDRUN SADIK
Internist, General Practitioner

Many years of experience and specialization as an internist in the following areas:
Cardiovascular diseases, metabolic diseases and endocrinological diseases, such as diabetes mellitus and diseases of the thyroid gland, as well as internal diseases during pregnancy.

Range of services:

  • Internal diseases during pregnancy
  • Gestational diabetes
  • Thyroid diseases (hyper- or hypofunction, inflammation)
  • Malnutrition, being severely overweight
  • Diabetes mellitus
  • Coronary heart disease (angina pectoris, heart attack, arrhythmia, heart failure)
  • Hypertension / Cholesterol
  • Extended preventive medicine & health-check

Iris Graf-Harrer
Dipl. Midwife

Education:

  • Midwifery Academy Vienna (Diploma in 2004)
  • Training as a Yoga teacher for pregnant women at the Vienna Yoga School
  • Training as a carrying consultant at the Vienna Carrying School

Further Education and Training Courses

on the following topics, amongst others:

  • Use of essential oils in pregnancy, childbirth and post-partum
  • Neonatal resuscitation
  • Breastfeeding seminar

Range of services:

  • Mother-child pass consultation
  • Private birth preparation course
  • Obstetrics in the private clinic Döbling
  • Accompaniment during a planned caesarean section ("bonding C-section") at the private clinic Döbling
  • Aftercare during the puerperium
  • Breastfeeding advice
  • Carrying consultation

Christina Proprentner
Dipl. Craniosacral Practitioner, Dipl. Midwife

Education:

  • Degree from the Midwifery Academy of the Province of Carinthia
  • Certified Craniosacral Practitioner
  • Kindergarten and infant pedagogue

Range of services:

  • Acupuncture
  • Craniosacral therapy (pregnancy, obstetrics and post-partum / for newborns)
  • Homeopathy (pregnancy, obstetrics and post-partum)
  • Kinesio Taping (pregnancy, obstetrics and newborns)
  • Lasering (obstetrics)

Assoc. Prof. Priv.-Doz. Dr. JULIA VALENCAK
Dermatologist

Education:

  • Graduate of Human Medicine (1995 - degree with dissertation; numerous stays abroad during studies - Scotland, France, Australia, India)
  • Trainee at the Med University Vienna, Department of Oncology, Internal Medicine I and Pathology (1997 - 1999)
  • University Clinic for Dermatology since 1999 (specialist degree in 2004, habilitation in 2011, conclusion of the qualification contract in 2017)
  • Senior physician at the University Clinic for Dermatology with focus on skin lymphoma and general dermatology (acne, rosacea) since November of 2014

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Emergency physician’s diploma (since January 2005)
  • In-depth training in Dermatopatho-Histology at the Medical University of Münster (D) and Medical University of Innsbruck (1999-2004)
  • In-depth training in dermatoscopy (Univ. Prof. Dr. Harald Kittler)
  • In-depth training in laser dermatology
  • Good Clinical Practice Diploma

Range of services:

  • Skin cancer prevention and treatment, skin lymphomas
  • Birthmark control (digital storage)
  • Inflammatory dermatoses (acne, rosacea)
  • Child dermatology and skin diseases in old age
  • Examination and treatment of skin infections and venereal diseases
  • Scar treatments (needling, chemical peeling)
  • Laser treatments (couperose, pigment spots, warts)

Mag. Heddy Raudsepp
Dental hygienist in training

Education:

  • Training as a dental hygienist at the Faculty of Medicine / Dentistry of the Danube Private University (DPU)
  • Training as a dental assistant and dental hygienist in the practice of DDr. Karin Vornwagner (Vienna) and in the family dental clinic of Jannseni Hambaravi (Pärnu, Estonia)
  • Apprenticeship as a dental assistant at the University of Dental Clinic Vienna
  • Degree from Tallinn University of Technology (MSc of Econony)

Range of services:

  • Dental diagnostics
  • Dental health prophylaxis and preventive treatment of teeth
  • Advice on dental hygiene
  • Professional tooth-cleaning
  • Tooth whitening
  • Periodontal treatment

Languages: German, English, Finnish, Russian, Dutch, Estonian

Dr. Valeria Zillner
Anesthesiologist, intensive care physician

Education:

  • Specialist for anesthesia and intensive care since 2005
  • Training in SMZO with obtainment of a European specialist diploma
  • General Practitioner since 2008
  • Self-employed specialist for anesthesia in private hospitals since 2007
  • Own private practice since 2010

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Orthomolecular Medicine
  • Mesotherapy
  • Homotoxicological therapy
  • Iron management in blood
  • Anti aging therapy

Range of services:

  • Anesthesia for various surgical disciplines, as well as for obstetrics and gynecology
  • Iron therapy
  • Orthomolecular therapy
  • Ozone therapy
  • Anti aging therapy

Dr. Ana Reiter
Anesthesiologist, intensive care physician

Education:

  • Graduate of the Medical Faculty in Graz and Vienna
  • Training as a general practitioner (1994-1997)
  • Training as a specialist for anesthesiology and intensive care at the Vienna University Clinic for Anesthesiology and General Intensive Care (1997-2004)

Specialist in anesthesiology and intensive care from 2004-2010 at the Hanusch Hospital and from 2010-2015 at the Lorenz Böhler Emergency Hospital

  • Practice with a focus on mistletoe therapy in oncology
  • Self-employed anesthetist since 2015
  • Foundation of the Slovenian Homeopathic Society

Languages: German, English, Italian, Slovenian, Croatian and Serbian

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Basic course in abdominal sonography
  • ÖÄK Diploma for Complementary Medicine - Homeopathy
  • Emergency physician’s diploma of the medical association
  • Basic Course for Transthoracic and Transesophageal Echocardiography
  • Basic course in ultrasound-targeted regional anesthesia and regular activity in this specialist field since then

Dr.med. ANNA SAFAI
Specialist in General Medicine, Dipl. Homeopath

Education:

  • Graduate of the Medical University of Vienna (PhD 2010)
  • Apprenticeship as a general practitioner at the Landesklinikum St. Pölten, Lower Austria (Obtainment of the Ius practicandi in 2016)
  • Training as a homeopath at the Austrian Society for Homeopathic Medicine – ÖGHM (member of the ÖGHM and ECH – European Committee for Homeopathy)
  • Yoga trainer (training with N. Krüger (200 h))

Further Education and Training Courses:

  • Diploma of advanced studies from the Austrian Medical Association for regular medical training on subject-specific and interdisciplinary topics in accordance with the latest state-of-the-art in science
  • Regular homeopathic training and work-groups at the ÖGHM
  • Emergency physician’s training course

Range of services:

  • Classical homeopathy: Treatment of chronic and acute diseases in women, men and children
  • Prudent advice on all health issues
  • Planning of diagnostically important examinations and corresponding allocation of procedures – such as laboratory, x-ray, ultrasound, ECG, allergy diagnostics, lung function test, etc. after a detailed physical examination
  • Discussion of findings
  • Development of individual therapy strategies
  • Mediation with physicians of other specialties in case of medical necessity
  • Mother-child pass: General medical examination
  • Advice on vaccination issues and execution of vaccinations after prior agreement