There is medicine and a profound capacity for deep healing within you.
There is a part of you that already knows how to heal. Inner Being Medicine is about that part of you.
It’s about helping you hear it, and remember the way back home to yourself.
I’m Aleksandra Matakovic-Manca. I spent years practicing, and then expanding my vision to create a way of working that feels truer and more alive. This became Inner Being Medicine.
My years in medicine
For over two decades I worked across Italy and England as an integrative medical doctor, consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist focusing on trauma, healing and connection — with babies, children, young people, families, and adults navigating emotional pain, loss and the complexities of life.
My own challenges and healing informed my path and guided my journey as I was guiding others back to themselves.
Sometimes this took the form of teaching and supervising psychotherapy colleagues. But at its core, it was always about connection, and love. Even when love did not need to be named.
I qualified as a medical doctor in 2001 and hold registration in the UK (GMC) and Italy (OMCeOMI), where I am also registered as a medical psychotherapist.
Alongside this, three decades of training and study across many other traditions of healing: clinical, somatic, relational, and earth-based.
Everything that has fed this work is set out on the Approach page.
What shifted
In recent years, as I reconnected to a way of practising that centres on the relationship and the wisdom of the body, and trained as a coach, something shifted in me.
I experienced what it’s like when clinical depth meets intuition, the wisdom of the body, the power of the heart, and the profound landscape of the inner world.
I became more passionate about empowering people than naming what was wrong with them, and about witnessing the transformation that becomes possible when the focus is on someone’s wholeness, rather than what is broken in them.
None of what came before fell away. With everything those twenty-plus years taught me, I created a new approach: one that draws on everything medicine and psychotherapy taught me, and brings it together with somatic and body-based wisdom and coaching, into one integrated way of working.
Helping people reconnect to their wholeness. Rebuild capacity. Rediscover their own resources. Find balance from the inside out.
That shift has a name: Inner Being Medicine.
An integrated approach, holding health and wellbeing coaching, life coaching, transformational connection coaching and mental health coaching in one way of working.
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“There is a deep wisdom in her, earned by her years of experience, and a deep respect for the natural evolution of those she works with. You won’t find a safer, more nurturing guide to help you explore your inner world.”
What I Believe
The ground Inner Being Medicine is built on.
Underneath everything I believe is one thing: what is in the way is asking to be seen and met.
You are not broken.
You do not need to be fixed. You need to be met — fully, honestly, and without judgement.
Deep inside, you already carry everything you need. This work is not about adding something new. It is about bringing to light what stands in the way.
Healing happens through connection.
Healing is a side effect of connection — with yourself, with others, with life itself. Something that becomes possible when you are truly met. It takes two to know one. When you are witnessed and held with a loving gaze, what was hiding in the shadows no longer needs to hide. That is when it transforms.
The whole of you belongs here.
Your trauma, your brilliance, your grief, your longing, your wisdom — nothing needs to be hidden or left outside the door. And you were never meant to carry this alone. So much of what feels like your weight was never only yours: inherited, absorbed, held for others. Part of coming home is learning what is yours to keep, and what you are allowed to set down.
“I feel deeply heard and appreciate her gentle nudges towards a broader, freer way of thinking and self acceptance.”
The body holds the map.
Your body, your intuition, and your inner world are not obstacles or enemies. They hold precious messages, and a deep intelligence that knows the way home. What you struggle with is not a malfunction to be fixed — it is a message to be explored, a doorway that carries you closer to life, to love, to freedom, not away from them.
Safety sets the pace.
Real change moves at the pace of safety. Nothing happens faster than feels right. The pace is always yours and I am there to meet you as deeply as you want to go.
We do this together.
We are both the expert. I bring my training, my years of clinical experience, and my own journey of losing and finding myself. You are the expert of your own life. Presence matters more than protocol: we work with what is alive in the moment — your words, your body, what goes unsaid.
My journey
When I was young, I had my own share of adverse childhood experiences.
Later, after a serious car accident at fourteen, I lost myself.
Without knowing it, I gradually lost my health, my mind, and the connection with my body.
I have known grief, despair, and my own mind in pieces. There were times I did not want to be alive.
But life had another plan for me.
I spent decades gathering the scattered pieces of my soul, making sense of what had happened, and slowly finding my way back.
Wonderful healers and teachers met me in ways I could not yet meet myself, and helped me draw new maps to navigate by.
Nature has been one of my steadiest allies in my own healing, and in this work.
It does not hurry. It does not fix.
Something of that pace has become part of how I work.
I dedicated three decades of my life to medicine, healing, and connection learning all I could, while I was also healing myself.
After all of it, after an immense number of approaches, I realised something.
The change I had been witnessing was not coming from any of the tools or techniques I had learned.
It was coming from the heart through the love I could feel for the beautiful souls I had the privilege to work with.
What I learned was not the medicine.
What I learned were different languages, and different lenses through which to meet human suffering.
How to observe not only with my eyes, but with my whole being — mind, body, heart and soul.
To become fluent in all the languages a soul might ask to be met in: words, silence, art, touch, the body, play, movement, images, nature.
Each person an entire constellation of parts, yearning to come home and to be met exactly where they were lost.
It took me a long time to admit that what I was doing behind the desk had more to do with love than with my degrees and qualifications.
Accepting this asked me to let go of ways of working I no longer felt fully aligned with, and to expand into a more personal, expansive space.
I am still deeply engaged in the lifelong practice of returning to my heart and the capacity to be fully present.
Everything I offer comes from there too: from having felt broken, and discovering I never was.
“Aleks’ work is not separate from her life, but is her passion, vocation, joy and commitment.”
The bigger vision
Inner Being Medicine is the way I practise. It is also something larger, way bigger than me.
I see a world where people know there is a medicine within them, and know how to reach it.
Where preventative care is the mainstream rather than the alternative. Where conventional medicine, the older traditions, and the languages that read a life are held together rather than set against each other.
Where children learn early that their body is a system always striving for balance, and that a symptom is a message, not proof that something is wrong with them.
Where health professionals are teachers, guides and mentors, walking alongside, rather than the ones holding all the knowledge.
And somewhere within it, a place where people explore, discover, and learn to heal their own bodies, minds and hearts through a deeper connection with themselves, with nature, and with each other.
I have practised this way. I have witnessed what becomes possible: a life with more love, joy and freedom in it.
“If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.”
If you are somewhere on your own long way home, I know that ground.
If this meets you, we begin with a Consultation.
This work walks alongside medical and psychological care, and never replaces it.