The Coaching Effect: Switzerland’s Most Influential Executive Coaches – 2026
In this edition, The Coaching Effect: Switzerland’s Most Influential Executive Coaches – 2026, we highlight Gabriela Lala Ackermann, a Swiss therapist and holistic practitioner whose work brings together neuroscience, physiology, human behaviour, and Balinese healing traditions through highly personalised therapeutic care at Holy Healing Valley.
Gabriela Lala Ackermann: Helping People Heal Through Personalised Therapy and Holistic Care
The demand for therapy and wellness retreats keeps growing, yet many people return home carrying the same burdens they hoped to leave behind. Healing is personal, every nervous system, every life story, is different. That belief is the foundation of Gabriela Lala Ackermann's work. Together with her Balinese partner, Wayan Arsita, Gabriela founded Holy Healing Valley, a private 24/7 one-to-one Therapy and Holy Holiday Wellbeing Retreat in Southeast Asia. Storytelling came naturally to Sandra-Stella long before she stepped into publishing and community building.
Can Holistic Healing Change How We Recover?
For a long time, healthcare has often focused on one central question: What is wrong, and how do we treat it? Holistic healing asks a slightly different question: What does the whole person need to recover? That shift is helping change the conversation around recovery, wellness and integrative medicine. Instead of looking only at symptoms or a diagnosis, holistic healing considers physical health, mental well-being, sleep, nutrition, stress, relationships, lifestyle and emotional health as interconnected parts of recovery.
Why Nervous System Healing is Changing Wellness
Wellness used to be largely about what we could see: eating better, exercising more, sleeping enough and taking time to relax. Now, a different conversation is gaining attention, nervous system regulation. From social media wellness trends to therapy rooms and mindfulness practices, more people are talking about feeling “regulated,” “safe” or “stuck in fight-or-flight.” The growing interest is not entirely surprising. Stress is not simply an emotion; it produces measurable physical changes, including increases in heart rate, breathing and blood pressure.