
Mireia Serra
Body-oriented therapy
An approach that integrates body and mind
Individual therapy to adults and teenagers.
The therapy can take place in Danish, English, Spanish or Catalan.
I speak all four languages fluently.
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Therapeutic approach
The therapy is conversation-based and body-oriented. When appropriate, I include exercises to support the therapeutic process. I draw on knowledge from various therapeutic traditions as needed, but do not allow myself to be limited by any particular approach. I work with an awareness of how important it is in therapy to find a balance between two essential aspects of the work:
To foster presence and well-being here and now, which involves drawing attention to your bodily perceptions and fueling with acceptance of what is. This is the “being” part.
To foster understanding of what might be holding one back from living life fully. This involves engaging in reflective work, that is a cognitive exploration of life patterns – mental, emotional and behavioral patterns that limit us. This is the ”thinking" part.
Throughout my career, I have worked with people experiencing change, grief, depression and anxiety, as well as with individuals living with trauma and/or psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and personality disorders.
No matter how serious the condition is — and whether you identify with a diagnosis or not — the opportunity to transcend it and create change and well-being is always there.

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Chronological account of my professional development
At 18, I set myself in motion—training for a marathon. I discover not only my body but also a place within me that is curious about the endless nuances of bodily sensations. Later, I enter the world of dance and theatre while studying Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature (UAB, Bellaterra) and work as a performer for several years. I still do occasionally, when the opportunity arises.
At the age of 30, I move to Denmark and study psychomotor therapy at Københavns Professionshøjskole. Later on I develop a deep interest in trauma as a phenomenon and a knowledge field and complete further education in Relational Trauma Therapy with Merete Holm Brandbjerg.
Since then, I’ve helped people reconnect with their inner resources and strengthen the dialogue with their body — fostering presence and well-being. I’ve offered both individual and group sessions — the last 10 years in a closed ward at the Psychiatric Center Glostrup. In addition, I teach at Københavns Professionshøjskole.
Alongside my work with adults, and as part of my psychomotor practice, I have worked with bilingual children and their families since 2008. In this space, children are supported in learning and maintaining their second language, Catalan, through storytelling, play and body awareness, also voice and rythm. At the same time, the relationship between child and parent is strengthened, and a community around Catalan language and culture is nurtured. The project is called La Geganta, which means “the giant” in Catalan. Even if you don’t understand Catalan, I’m confident you’ll still get a sense of how I work with children.
Education and sources of inspiration
Psychomotor therapy training is a higher education at university level. In contrast to the more limited understanding that can be found in some southern European countries – where psychomotor therapy often focuses primarily on working with children – the Danish training offers an integrative therapeutic approach with a focus on the body and has broad clinical applications, including work with adults as well as in contexts such as mental health, rehabilitation and prevention.
Relational Trauma Therapy is a psychomotor, neurocentric and systems-oriented method, developed by psychotherapist and psychomotor therapist Merete Holm Brandbjerg. The method has – in addition to its roots in psychomotorics – drawn inspiration from Z-Health, SCT (Systems-Centered Therapy) and attachment theory. The overall goal is to establish systems where dissociative patterns can be opened up, and the states that have been hidden in dissociation can be regulated together.
In addition to these two educations, Eckhart Tolle should be mentioned as a very significant source of inspiration, especially his understanding of consciousness and presence.

Therapist with 10 years of experience in body-oriented therapy in a psychiatric ward and over 25 years of work at the intersection of therapy and art — with the body as a starting point for investigation and gateway to change
Prices / Therapy
Adults
Teenagers
950 dkk · 60 min
1300 dkk · 90 min
750 dkk · 60 min
1050 dkk · 90 min
Sessions can take place either in person or via Zoom, depending on your needs.
Payment takes place immediately after a session via Mobilepay +45 26 67 87 29
If you are unable to attend, please cancel as soon as possible and
no later than 24 hours before the session. If cancelled later or no-show, the full fee will be charged.
Cancellations can be made via SMS to +45 26 67 87 29
You might be struggling—somehow longing for that discomfort to go away. And that's so human.
Maybe you tell yourself that you can take it and manage it without help—that you know what's best for you. And you do.
You might feel an impulse to reach out, yet be convinced that nothing and no one can help — your life situation may feel too entangled, too complex, completely impossible to change. And perhaps not much needs to change.
You may not like the idea of therapy at all — the thought of engaging in a therapeutic process can even feel a little provoking.
You may think you’re not “the type to go to therapy” — and certainly not for body-centered therapy. Not that!
I understand. I know.
Those prejudices I've had them too. I still have them, sometimes. And yet here I stand.
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Throughout all these years, working with people from very different contexts, with very different life stories and with widely differing ideas about what it actually takes to transform suffering, I have learned that we can all benefit from work that strengthens the dialogue with ourselves through the body. Often, this kind of work opens our perspective and expands our capacity to enjoy life.
I have also learned that this work can be carried out with deep respect for each individual's personality, preferences, and unique way of understanding and seeing themselves
Therapy isn’t just one thing.
It can take many forms.
It’s a process where you and I define the direction together, based on your needs and my professional support.
Above all, it’s about creating space. Lightness.
And noticing what might emerge from that. One of the things that often happens is that it becomes easier to distinguish the facts from the narrative we’ve built around them.
It’s not strictly necessary to start by talking about what you feel - not if that doesn’t make sense to you right now.There’s no need to dig into difficult topics - not if what you need at this moment is something else.
This process can lead to greater understanding. But understanding is not always the key—and never the only one.
You are more than welcome.
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Contact
Terapeuterne i Kroghsgade
Kroghsgade 1, 1.tv 2100 Copenhagen Ø
one@mireiaserravoltas.dk | +45 26678729


Psychomotor therapists are bound by confidentiality and, as members of Danish Psychomotor Therapists, are subject to DAP's ethical guidelines and statutes.
