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SOFIA ZARRY

My work explores how our worldview, our emotions, and the meaning we make of life shape the way we experience ourselves and the world around us.

My kind of therapy

I call myself an anthropotherapist to describe the particular way my work brings together anthropology and therapy. Anthropology is the study of how human beings learn to see the world: the cultural patterns we absorb, the stories we inherit, the beliefs and meanings that shape our sense of reality. Therapy, in turn, is the process through which we explore those patterns, loosen their hold on us, and create space for new ways of experiencing ourselves and our lives. My work combines these two perspectives, helping people understand how their inner world was formed while supporting them in reconnecting with a deeper sense of coherence, truth and freedom. This is in many ways related to existential therapy.

My Background

My path into this work began long before I became a therapist. I originally trained in cultural anthropology and linguistics, and devoted my research to understanding how human beings learn to give meaning to the world they inhabit.

Growing up between cultures played an important role in shaping this curiosity. I was born in Casablanca, grew up in Paris, and now live in Copenhagen. Moving between languages and cultural environments made me aware from an early age that the way we see and feel the world is not fixed or universal. Each culture, each social group, each family, carries its own ways of interpreting life, shaping our values, our perceptions, and the stories we tell about ourselves.

Over time, this awareness grew into a deeper fascination with the invisible frameworks through which we understand reality. What we take to be “normal”, “true”, or even “possible” is often the result of cultural patterns and meanings we have absorbed without realising it.

That experience sits at the heart of the work I do today.

My Journey into this Work

My interest in meaning and perception was not only intellectual, but also deeply personal. My first experiences with depression began in early adolescence, and what followed were nearly three decades of recurring anxiety, despair, and an ongoing search for answers. Like many people trying to understand their own suffering, I read everything I could, explored different forms of therapy, and spent ears trying to untangle the stories I carried about myself and my past.

Eventually, I reached a point where I stopped searching for a definitive solution. I began to accept that perhaps this was simply how my life would feel: a continuous effort to survive alongside depression without ever fully escaping it.

It was around that time that I discovered hypnotherapy. For the first time, I encountered a way of working that allowed me to access parts of my experience that had previously remained out of reach. Suddenly, there were reach explanations for what I had been living through: unconscious beliefs, hidden trauma and unresolved emotions that gave context to my suffering. Instead of feeling broken and defective, I began to understand that there were reasons why I felt the way I did.

That discovery opened a new path for me, both personally and professionally.

From Authenticity to Coherence

My initial work focused on the kinds of healing that many therapeutic approaches address: removing the layers of past trauma, attachment wounds, and inherited beliefs, to uncover our real, authentic core.

But ver time, both through my own process and my work with clients, I began discovering something deeper. Beneath our conscious thoughts, emotions and subconscious patterns, lies a more fundamental layer: the way meaning itself arises in our experience.

Exploring this deeper level gradually led me to the concept that now sits at the center of my work: COHERENCE.

Coherence is not about becoming the perfect and permanently healed version of ourselves. It is the experience of being fully present within ourselves, no longer entirely governed by the layers of conditioning, interpretation, and inherited meaning that normally shape our perception. In that state, we are able to move through life with a deeper sense of alignment, connected to our inner truth while meeting reality as it unfolds in the present moment.

This perspective transformed not only my personal journey, but also the way I understand therapeutic work. Sometimes change happens at the level of conscious understanding. Sometimes it happens through deeper subconscious processes. And sometimes the work touches the very foundations of reality itself. Moving through these layers is what guides my work as a therapist.

An Ongoing Journey

One of the most important things I have learned is that there is no final point of arrival: the Journey of healing and becoming ourselves is the path and the destination all at once.

For this reason, I remain deeply engaged in my own process of exploration and growth. The work I offer others is inseparable from the journey I continue to walk myself.

I believe we can only accompany others as far as we are willing to go within our own lives.

Training & Background

  • Clinical Hypnotherapist
  • Certified Emotional Empowerment Coach
  • Peacemaking Circle Facilitator
  • Shamanic Counselor
  • Master’s degree in Anthropology
  • Master’s degree in Linguistics
  • Bachelor’s degree in Ethnography, Linguistics, and French as a Second Language

Outside the Therapy Room

My life has taken me through many chapters, including two marriages, several countries, and raising a son who is now an adult. Outside my work, I am happiest taking long walks in the city or in nature, dancing to electronic music, and continuing the intense exploration of the human inner life that has shaped both my personal journey and the work I offer today.

For the personality nerds: Aquarius Sun, Capricorn Moon, Pisces Rising | 3/5 Emotional Projector | Enneagram 2 | ENFP