Dr Anandi Janner Steffan

FOUNDER OF TIFT® | CLINICIAN, TRAINER AND SUPERVISOR IN CPTSD/DID AND DISSOCIATION

Dr Anandi Janner Steffan is the founder of TIFT® — Trauma Integrating Flow Therapy. She has worked clinically, taught and supervised internationally since 1998, with a particular focus on cPTSD/DID, dissociation, early attachment disturbance and systemic clinical work with individuals, couples and families.

CLINICAL AND TEACHING WORK

• Private clinical practice in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, since 1995. • Since 1998: training for professionals and families in foster care and adoption in collaboration with the cantonal child-protection authority, Switzerland. • Since 2014 -2022: international trainer and supervisor in Lifespan Integration®; developer of Systemic Lifespan Integration® and Couple Lifespan Integration®. • Since 2022: developer, trainer and supervisor in TIFT®, including TIFT Systemic and TIFT Couples, taught in German, English and French. • International clinical, teaching and supervisory experience in Switzerland, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Austria.

ACADEMIC BACKGROUND

• University of Bern, Switzerland Studies and doctorate in molecular and cell biology and genetics • Medical Research Council Cambridge, United Kingdom Postdoctoral research in genetic engineering and gene regulation

PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC FORMATION

Her clinical formation includes goal-oriented psychodynamic psychotherapy, holding and systemic family therapy, family constellation, with particular attention to adoption, early attachment disturbance and cPTSD/DID. Further professional education includes study with Peter Levine, Bessel van der Kolk, Stephen Porges, Ellert Nijenhuis, Luise Reddemann and Peggy Pace, among others.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS AND CONGRESS CONTRIBUTIONS

• Dunod, Paris: chapter contributions on child dissociation and coauthor of the book: Emotional Regulation in family systems, Lifespan Integration® settings and theoretical models, systemic Lifespan Integration®, and clinical work with families. • ESTD: presentations in Amsterdam and Bern on Systemic Lifespan Integration®, preverbal cPTSD/DID and attachment. • DeGPT: congress contributions in Zurich, Dresden and Würzburg on cPTSD/DID, early developmental disruption, attachment and Lifespan Integration®. • International teaching: workshops in English, German, French and Italian, including post-COVID PTSD work and the early recognition of probable Complex Trauma with minimal exposure to trauma. • ESTD Congress, Lisbon 2026: workshop presenter on TIFT® attachment architecture and clinical tools.

TIFT® brings together clinical work with cPTSD/DID, attachment, living-system organisation and structural

clinical mapping and a bottom-up processing

The living already knows how to live — TIFT joins this intelligence.