Anna Schmutte, 49, began her professional career as a dancer in the independent dance scene in Hamburg and Berlin. After ending her dance career, her interest in psychology led her to body therapy.

In 2007, Anna founded a practice for holistic therapy methods in Berlin, which she has been running ever since, and in which a mixture of modern and traditional approaches such as systemic couples therapy, systemic coaching, systemic constellations, positive psychology, body therapy according to Grinberg, embodiment coaching, MBSR, meditation and yoga are represented. She has developed her own coaching style that combines bodywork and embodiment with solution-focused dialogue and systemic coaching.

Before Anna had a child at the age of 43, she was unsure for years whether she really wanted to have a child. Based on her own experience of how difficult it can sometimes be to make a decision on this important issue, she developed a coaching programme for people who are faced with the decision to have children. In this coaching, strengthening the coachee’s personal decision-making ability is central to both the method and the content.

Anna has already helped many couples and individuals come to a decision about having children. Together with feminist author Sarah Diehl, Anna has been running a seminar and an online course entitled ‘Do I want children?’ for undecided women since 2021.

She has also designed an online course entitled ‘Do we want children?’ for couples who want to clarify the question of having children together, and offers individual and couple coaching on the question of children online and in person.

Her seminars are widely booked and followed with great interest by the media: articles, interviews and podcast contributions with Anna on her Kinderfrage seminars and coaching sessions have appeared in SZ Magazin, Jetzt.de, Flow Magazin, Tagesspiegel, GEO, Brigitte, Missy Magazin, Annabelle, Cosmopolitan, ZDF, rbb, SWR, NDR and many other German-language media.