Psychotherapy & Psychosomatic Medicine Clinic "San Raffaele"
Welcome to
THE PATH THROUGH LIGHT
An Integrative Therapeutic Method for Trauma, Embodiment, and the Restoration of the Self
A Path of Awareness and Integration
After 19 years of intensive work in therapy, I developed The Path Through Light as a response to the complexity of human suffering. This method is not based on a single therapeutic strategy, but on a deep understanding of the human being as a psychological, emotional, physical, and conscious whole.
My work integrates psychoanalysis, psychosomatic medicine, neuroscience, embodiment, and conscious self-observation, offering a coherent framework for understanding trauma, repetitive patterns, and the restoration of inner coherence.
How This Method Works
My approach is deeply rooted in psychoanalysis, where unconscious dynamics, early childhood experiences, and formative relational patterns are explored and understood. I work step by step, reconstructing the inner history of the individual, often returning to the first years of life, where personality structures, defense mechanisms, and repetitive emotional responses were formed.
At the same time, my work is firmly grounded in psychosomatic medicine. Physical symptoms are not treated as isolated conditions, but understood as meaningful expressions of unresolved emotional conflicts, trauma, and unconscious inner tension. From an embodiment perspective, the body holds memory, adaptation, and survival responses that can be accessed, regulated, and integrated.
An essential dimension of The Path Through Light is the cultivation of awareness and self-observation. I work directly with breath and breathing techniques, using respiration as a bridge between body and mind and as a tool for nervous system regulation. Through conscious breathing, guided meditation, hypnosis, and focused attention practices, individuals learn to observe internal states, recognize repetitive patterns, and understand automatic emotional and behavioral responses.
Neuroscience offers a framework for understanding how trauma shapes perception, emotional regulation, and relational responses, while therapy supports the gradual restoration of safety, coherence, and self-regulation.
Another key element of my work is therapeutic astrology, used as a symbolic and psychological framework. By exploring a person’s birth data, I help reveal psychological structures, unconscious tendencies, recurring life themes, and existential direction. Used therapeutically, astrology becomes a tool for meaning and orientation—not prediction, but understanding.
This work can offer clear insights and meaningful shifts even from the first sessions, providing immediate clarity and relief where possible. At the same time, lasting transformation unfolds through a deeper, step-by-step process that supports the restoration of the self—emotionally, bodily, relationally, and consciously.
Who I Work With
Psychotherapy and Emotional Healing
I work with a wide range of emotional disorders — such as
anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, relationship difficulties, emotional dependency, addictions, burnout, eating and somatic disorders, gender identity, learning disalibilies, autism, adhd, bulling, etc.—
helping individuals, couples, children, teenagers and families restore inner balance and rediscover their authentic strength.
When working with children, therapy always takes place within a family framework. I do not work with the child alone; a parent is always present and involved in the process. A child’s symptoms are understood within the emotional and relational environment of the family system.
With adolescents, the work remains grounded in the family context, while allowing flexibility. Sessions may involve parents and adolescents together, separate sessions, or a combination of both. When parents are separated, therapy may include one parent, both parents, siblings, or different family constellations, depending on the situation.
Alongside this, I work in individual therapy (one-to-one), couple therapy, and group therapy, particularly in the context of addictions, where shared awareness and relational dynamics support responsibility and change.
I also work therapeutically with individuals and families facing severe or terminal illness, offering a space for emotional integration, meaning, conscious presence, and relational closure.
About Me
I am Natalia Alexandra Buciuman – Psychologist, Specialist in Psychosomatic Medicine, with a solid academic and professional background formed through classical university studies, postgraduate training, and extensive therapeutic practice.
My education includes formal studies in medicine, psychology, music, psychoanalysis, criminology, organizational psychology, neuroscience, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and integrative therapeutic approaches. Rather than applying these disciplines separately, I have synthesized them into a unified, personal vision of the human being.
I work in depth, with precision and responsibility, guiding individuals through psychological history, emotional memory, bodily experience, and cultivated awareness. My role is not to impose answers, but to help people access clarity, meaning, and direction from within.
Everything I offer—my method, my perspective, my way of working—is the result of years of formal education, clinical practice, and lived professional experience. I guide people through complexity and transformation, helping them find their own path through light.
Psychotherapy & Psychosomatic Healing - Beyond Symptoms, Towards Self.
Why Do We Avoid Therapy?
At the heart of it lies a silent and universal fear:
the fear of change.
To face ourselves — truly — means to leave behind the comfort of who we’ve always been, to take off the armor we’ve built, and step into the unknown. This journey can feel overwhelming, as it often involves confronting pain, vulnerability, and truths long buried beneath our roles, our achievements, our masks.
Yet, life is constant transformation.
And healing begins where comfort ends.
The Hidden Fear Behind Avoidance
Many people don’t just avoid therapy.
They avoid the therapist.
Because a therapist represents something confronting:
the possibility of being seen — deeply, without filters.
It’s not just about the fear of being judged.
It’s the fear that someone might witness our rawness, our fragility, our contradictions... and still not walk away.
That kind of presence feels both threatening and healing at once.
So Why Do We Stay Away?
Because therapy isn’t a conversation.
It’s an encounter with ourselves.
And many would rather stay in the illusion of stability than explore the unknown terrain of authenticity.
But true healing doesn’t come from avoiding.
It comes from choosing — consciously — to feel, to face, and to grow.
If you’re reading this and wondering whether therapy is for you...
Perhaps it already is.
Not because you are broken.
But because you’re ready to become whole.
Are you ready to take the first step toward that transformation?
If something in you resonates with these words, you are not alone.
Welcome to the Psychotherapy & Psychosomatic Medicine Clinic
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Bookings
To ensure that therapy is the right fit for your needs, all clients are required to complete the Google Form below before any session can be scheduled.
Once your form is reviewed, you will receive confirmation and access to book your first session.
Please let me know you filled the form by sending me a message:07555270095
Payment: Bank transfer at the time of booking in base of an invoice send by email
For more information, please see Terms and Conditions https://nathaliabuciuman.wixsite.com/mysite/terms-conditios
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Clinic Space
Sessions take place online or in a private, warm, and familiar space in the UK (London & Portsmouth)– not a medical office, but a sanctuary for deep work.
Testimonials:
"You helped me a lot. The meetings with you have had the effect of catharsis ... As a bridge between me, determined by the past conditions and myself ... Thank you for the progress made together."
Tatiana Simion
"Professionalism and devotion are two of the qualities of Natalia Buciuman that my little girl benefited from. I recommend with confidence. "
Aurelia Mielcioiu
"In moments of restlessness and loneliness .... it is the most pleasant thing to calm down here ... on my part 5 starts "
Benone Sandu
"I was very sad, hurt and I lost the confidence in myself, in my strength and value and Dr. Buciuman helped me enormously already only after two sessions. I am just at the beginning of the not easy journey to retrieve and to learn to love myself, but with her help I know I am on the right track and I can do it! Natalia Buciuman is a fantastic doctor and an exceptional person, I recommend with all the warmth and the trust !!
Thank you with all my heart ❤"
Monica Angela Hasiu
I can’t thank enough to Natalia for her professionalism and help when I needed it the most. I apreciate her flexibility, patience and her aptitude to boost your confidence and offer practical advice on how to overcome any situation. You’re going to find more than a therapist, you’ll find a person who understands you and helps you find the best solution.
Cristina Balauca
Cand am crezut ca divinitatea m-a parasit atunci mi te-a scos in cale ,esti o fiinta si psihoterapeut minunat,iti multumesc ca ai adus lumina in viata mea,apelati cu incredere la orice problema aveti si nu gasiti raspuns, este persoana de care toti acum nevoie si un mentor foarte bun,mult succes in salvarea sufletelor pierdute!🙏😘
Adriana ER
A dedicated, patient therapist, who has the ability to understand the person in front of her, to show you clearly and to the point where you are. She supports me in solving emotional problems and finding answers to questions that I can not talk to others about.
A therapist who can work as well with children or adults.
I recommend her with all the love and confidence.
Thank you Natalia.
Teodora Delcea
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