Hartspraak · practice for integrative psychotherapy
Welcome. I am Martien Janssen – trauma therapist, author and translator. For more than fifty years I have walked part of the way with people on their path. I live in Dortmund, Germany, and work in Dutch, German and English. Here you will find what I offer in English.
Where would you like to begin?
Each one has its own place on the web. If you already take part, log in there.
First step · free
Discover the patterns that quietly shape your life
The character structure test shows which protective patterns you developed as a child – and the gift hidden in each of them. You receive a personal portrait by email.
93 questions · about 28 minutes · results by email
Free for now
Fifteen minutes, in my own voice
Guided meditations in English, Dutch and German, with music composed for each one. The first series, The Seat of the Soul, is free.
15 minutes each · free for now
For couples · Lessen in liefde
Ten lessons for the two of you
A guided journey for you as a couple: the inner child in each of you, the practice of communication, and the dance your bodies have been dancing together for years.
Ten lessons · at your own pace · first conversation free
About me
For more than fifty years I have worked with people who have become stuck somewhere inside themselves. I learned my craft from John and Eva Pierrakos and from Hans Korteweg, and out of that grew my own way of working: body-oriented, systemic and spiritual.
Trauma and loss run like a red thread through my work, with particular attention to sexual trauma. That is often where the deepest freezing lies – and, once there is room, the deepest change. I work with bioenergetics, breathwork and family constellations, always attentive to the inner child and to the story the body tells.
As a translator I brought the work of Alexander Lowen, John Pierrakos and Stefanie Stahl, among others, into Dutch. I live with Verena in Dortmund.
My full story (in Dutch) →
From my pen
New · 2026
A Trauma Therapist on Consciousness, Psychedelics, and the Learning Brain
On consciousness as the ground of reality – and the brain as a filter that lets only part of it through.
In Dutch I also wrote Wond(er)werk, on the six character structures.
Meditation · free for now
The meditations are free for now. Sign up with your email address and you get access to the meditation site right away. You will see your password at once and also receive it by email.
Sign upA thirty-minute conversation on Zoom, free and without obligation. Together we look at where you are – and which step suits you.
Contact
A question, a doubt, or simply letting me know you are there – everything is welcome. I will answer as soon as I can.
