Dr Shariah Buzello

My story

Hi. I am Dr. Shariah Buzello, a medical doctor since 1995, a specialist anesthetist – trained in acute medicine, accustomed to high-pressure environments, and responsible for maintaining stability when it matters most.

2007 I was diagnosed with a rare muscle cancer.

Surgery followed. Years of medical follow-up. Recovery. And something no one had prepared me for: chronic pain that remained, long after the cancer was gone. Shortly after surgery, my marriage ended. I became a single mother, living far from home, rebuilding everything at once – my health, my identity, and my life.

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A shift in perspective

What I encountered in that process challenged everything I thought I understood about medicine.

I began to retrain – immersing myself into psychology, psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, and body work.

Through this work, I came to understand something my medical training had not fully addressed:
the body and mind do not function as separate systems.
You cannot work with one while neglecting the other.

Only later did I recognize that I had also been living with PTSD.The methods I had studied professionally became the very tools that supported my own process of recovery.
That journey – from physician to patient, from stability to disruption and back again – from survival to something that genuinely feels like living – continues to shape how I work today.

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My philosophy

What I learned – through clinical work, personal experience, and years of further training – is this: Medicine can treat the body. But it does not always address the person as a whole.
Sustainable change happens at the intersection of the physical, the psychological, and the meaningful. The body needs to be heard. The mind needs to be understood. And something deeper – how we make sense of our experience, and what remains possible – also needs attention.

This is what I refer to as integrative resilience. Not the resilience of gritting your teeth and pushing through. But the resilience of becoming more stable, more aware, and more aligned – even in the presence of ongoing challenges.

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My work

My work is grounded in this understanding.
It is not focused on short-term solutions, but on supporting a process of change that is both structured and sustainable.
My goal is to help you move toward a state that feels more stable, more coherent, and more manageable – on your own terms.

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A little more about me

After my medical training, I moved from Cape Town, South Africa to Germany, where I have built my life, my work, and my family. I am a mother to a daughter who has witnessed my process of rebuilding – and who has, in many ways, deepened my understanding of resilience.

Outside of my professional work, I continue to learn. I am drawn to interdisciplinary thinking, to the connections between different fields, and to the process of developing new perspectives over time. I believe that knowledge, when applied thoughtfully, has the capacity to create meaningful change – and I bring that perspective into all aspects of my work.