doc. PhDr. Daniela Stackeová, Ph.D.

Physiotherapist and psychosomatics specialist

Czech

Curriculum Vitae

Professional Experience

In more than thirty years of professional practice, I have combined physiotherapy, psychosomatics, sports psychology and movement therapy. I focus on treating musculoskeletal pain in its wider context, psychosomatic difficulties, a healthy lifestyle and health-oriented fitness. I believe that long-term health depends not only on relieving symptoms, but on understanding the connections between the body, the mind and everyday habits. Alongside my clinical practice, I have been continuously involved in teaching, research and publishing.

2025–present

Tulsia Clinic, Prague—physiotherapist specialising in psychosomatics.

2015–present

PALESTRA College of Physical Education and Sport—Associate Professor; Head of the Department of Education and Psychology; academic lead for the Sports and Conditioning Specialist degree programme; and Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal Acta Salus Vitae.

2018–2025

Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University—external lecturer and academic lead for the Clinical Psychology course.

2017–present

Humanitas University—external lecturer teaching psychosomatics.

1999–2013

Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University—Assistant Professor.

1994–1996

Motol University Hospital, Department of Child Psychiatry—therapist specialising in eating disorders.

Education

2015

Habilitation in Kinanthropology at the Faculty of Sports Studies, Masaryk University in Brno—appointed Associate Professor.

2002

Advanced Master’s state examination in Kinanthropology at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in Prague—PhDr. degree.

1997–2002

Doctoral studies in Kinanthropology at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University.

1991–1997

Master’s degree in Physiotherapy at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University, specialising in somatopsychotherapy. At the same time, completed the Charles University coaching school, specialising in bodybuilding and fitness coaching, equivalent to a Level A coaching licence.

Professional Activities

Associate Professor Daniela Stackeová is a recognised expert in kinanthropology who combines academic work with clinical practice. She is the author of several popular books, including Managing Stress in Sport, Exercises for Back Pain and Understanding Back Pain; the academic monograph Fitness Programmes from the Perspective of Kinanthropology; and is a co-author of Recommended Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures for Physicians in Psychosomatic Medicine. She has published more than forty articles in professional journals, as well as numerous teaching and popular-science texts and other publications. A complete list is available here: https://danielastackeova.webnode.cz/seznam-odbornych-publikaci/

She is an invited speaker at numerous professional conferences for healthcare professionals and specialists in physical education and sport.

Since 2018, she has served as an evaluator for the National Accreditation Bureau for Higher Education, later the National Accreditation Bureau for Tertiary Education, in the fields of Physical Education and Sport and Kinanthropology, and Psychology.

She is a member of the Czech-Moravian Psychological Society and the Czech Medical Society of Jan Evangelista Purkyně. From 2018 to 2024, she served on the committee of the Society of Psychosomatic Medicine of the Czech Medical Society. She is a founding member of the Clinical Psychosomatics Association and a member of the expert council of the Union of Physiotherapists. She is an honorary member of the Association of Sports Psychologists and, from 2026, a collaborating academic lead for the one-year Applied Sports Psychology continuing education programme organised by the Association of Sports Psychologists and the Faculty of Physical Education and Sport, Charles University in Prague.