I guide professionals who are into conscious living but struggle with speaking their needs or with emotional closeness, to shift their patterns, express themselves with confidence and build deep, fulfilling relationships.
You Want Deeper Relationships. So What’s the Missing Piece?
You're diving into personal growth, reading the books, doing "the work." You value conscious living and mindfulness, but when it comes to emotional intimacy, something still feels out of reach. You want to share your truth, connect deeply, and feel fully seen, but expressing yourself openly isn’t always easy.
Many people into mindfulness, spirituality, and self-development find it easier to work on themselves than to navigate emotional intimacy in relationships.
This isn’t about being "bad at relationships." It’s about Relational Intelligence, the essential skill-set nobody taught you, but one you can cultivate. Let's fill this gap and turn your inner awareness into real-world relational skills.
You want...
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To say what you need without overthinking or worrying you’ll push someone away
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To feel emotionally close without losing yourself or your independence
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To have honest, open conversations that actually creates more connection
But you...
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Hold things in and avoid conflict, then feel resentful or misunderstood
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Get stuck in your head trying to “say it right” instead of saying what’s true
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Pull back emotionally, even when part of you really wants connection.
And you don t know...
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How to feel safe being vulnerable
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How to clearly express your feelings and needs, without guilt, tension, or shutdown
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How to set boundaries without feeling selfish
If this feels familiar, it’s not because something is wrong with you. Good relationships are built through understanding, awareness, and practice, but we didn't learn this in school.
Hi, I'm Oana and I get it, navigating relationships can feel like trying to solve a problem with no clear formula. As a former engineer, I lived in a world where logic made sense, but emotions were labeled as messy, unpredictable or not relevant.
But here’s what I’ve learned: authentic connection isn’t about “figuring it out.” It’s about unlearning old patterns, trusting yourself, and making relationships feel natural.
Together, we’ll untangle what’s keeping you stuck, so you can move from overthinking and second-guessing to clarity, confidence, and real connection.
You don’t have to do this alone. I’m here to help you make connection feel easy.
Emotional Engineering for Real Connection: How I work
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CLARITY
Uncover What's Blocking You
Let's start by untangling those inner knots, discovering what's really beneath the discomfort and confusion in your relationships. (Spoiler alert: it's not what you think.) We'll explore hidden patterns and separate your actual feelings from mental narratives. Think of it as debugging your emotional operating system.
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RECALIBRATION
Rewire From Within
Change isn't just about understanding, it's also about feeling safe enough to embrace it. Through gentle hypnosis and body-based practices, you'll relax your nervous system, creating an internal environment safe enough to release old emotional loops and make way for new possibilities. You'll literally feel your nervous system shift, becoming relaxed, open, and ready for change.
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EXPRESSION
Real-Life Relational Skills
Now it’s time to put it all into practice. You’ll learn practical, real-world tools, communication strategies that feel natural, boundary-setting skills that actually stick and ways to express vulnerability without second-guessing yourself.
With your nervous system feeling safe and regulated, these new ways of relating will flow effortlessly, transforming interactions from draining to deeply fulfilling.
What You'll Walk Away With:
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Inner Clarity – understanding what you feel, why you feel it, and how to express it in a way that's natural and true to you.
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Deep Inner Balance – Feel steady, grounded, and fully at home in yourself.
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Effortless Communication – Say what you mean, set boundaries with confidence and connect without overthinking.
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A New Way of Relating – Experience relationships that feel energizing and nourishing, both personally and professionally.
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Lasting Transformation – This isn’t just learning skills, but rewiring how you experience and show up when connecting with others, so deep, meaningful relationships become your new normal.
What Others Say...
How We Can Work Together
FOR GROUPS
Interactive and practical workshops (online and in-person) focused on communication, boundaries, vulnerability, and meaningful connections.
Sometimes enriched with mindfulness rituals (tea or cacao ceremonies), these sessions offer community, practical tools, and enjoyable learning experiences.
Tools I Like To Use
I blend elements from Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy, Parts Work(self study) and Somatic Experiencing(self study), borrowing elements from each to help you shift deep emotional patterns at both the mind and body level.
Attachment Theory, Internal Family Systems and Shadow Work heavily influence my approach, bringing clarity to how you relate to yourself and others, while Mindfulness and Zen principles create a grounded, present-centered way of experiencing connection. Together, these tools shape a process where expressing yourself feels natural, and relationships become a source of ease and fulfillment.
Change becomes an effortless way of being
when new patterns take root in your body, emotions, and thoughts
- Oana Serbana -
The Truth About Hypnosis
Let’s get this out of the way: hypnotherapy isn’t about the weird stuff you saw people do on stage.
It’s just guided focus, like meditation with a purpose.
You stay fully aware the whole time, in control of your actions and able to make decisions. Hypnosis is simply a state of deep focus where your mind is more open to change, nothing happens without your consent.
Safe, structured, and evidence-based, the hypnosis method I use is a tool to help you shift patterns that logic alone can’t solve.
It’s science not sorcery, I promise.
Read more: Myths vs. Facts about Hypnosis
The Science Behind The Method
CBT Hypnotherapy blends Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) with Hypnosis to create lasting emotional and behavioral changes by addressing both conscious and subconscious levels.
Key Benefits:
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Greater Effectiveness: Combining CBT and hypnosis has shown 70% better outcomes compared to CBT alone.
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Faster Results: Hypnotherapy helps achieve meaningful improvements more quickly.
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Brain-Based Changes: Neuroscience confirms hypnosis directly influences brain areas linked to emotions, habits, and responses.
Explore more:
CBT Hypnotherapy isn't magic, but a powerful neuroscience-backed method.
You go quiet in the moment, then spiral after.
You say yes when you mean no, then feel the tension for hours.
Your body goes into ‘don’t go there’ mode, even with people you love.
This isn’t just a mindset issue. It’s a nervous system pattern which can be rewired.
We don’t just talk about it. We retrain your system to show up differently.
Why Relational Intelligence Matters
It shapes your career, happiness, and wellbeing. Imagine easily navigating challenging conversations, clearly expressing your needs, and building strong connections effortlessly. With relational intelligence, you finally feel at ease at work, at home, actually anywhere where you'll have to deal with people.
When you cultivate this skill, you experience:
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Professional Growth: Clear communication and emotional ease enhance your leadership, collaboration, and career growth.
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Personal Fulfillment: Deeper, more meaningful relationships drastically improve your happiness, health, and life satisfaction.
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Emotional Well-being: Reduced anxiety and greater emotional clarity mean less stress, more ease, and true confidence in all interactions.
When you master relational skills, your entire experience of being with others shifts.
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