Counselling / Coaching
Coaching and self-exploration, unlike the treatment of illness, do not aim to reduce symptoms. Similar to self-exploration, coaching focuses on strengthening resources, identifying one's own abilities and interests, and collaboratively finding ways to shape one's professional and private life according to one's own needs and in relation to others. Psychotherapy, at the treatment level, is often not far removed from coaching and self-exploration; the goals, in particular, frequently differ. However, the focus is always on personality development, expanding one's horizons, and increasing personal freedom to do or refrain from doing what one can and wants.
Individual Therapy
In a resource-oriented and body-centered way, I would like to discover with you what you need to be you and to achieve your goals. With the help of technical elements of the pesso method, EMDR and others, with what I apply my depth psychologically well-founded treatment method, we search together for your inherent sources of strength that can help you to relax and to deal with difficult or challenging circumstances in your life. We release inner blockages that prevent yourself from creating your life in a way you really want. Together we can open up a space of experience that enables you to finally find in life what you may have been looking for for a long time before.
Psychodynamic Groups
In psychotherapeutic group experiences, as in self-exploration or individual psychotherapy, the focus is on personal growth through processes of reflection and insight, healing experiences, and the art of setting goals and achieving them with support. Unlike individual therapy, however, group therapy offers the additional opportunity to explore new ways of fulfilling one's needs in relationships directly with others. Within the landscape of psychotherapy, this is one of the most challenging forms of encounter for both therapist and patient, and often also one of the most profound and beautiful.
Pesso groups
The Pesso Method is a body-oriented psychotherapeutic approach that focuses on addressing past and present difficulties such as trauma, challenges adapting to situations, and conflicts with others. It is based on the premise that our current experiences and reactions are partly explained by the context and partly by our past experiences. Inappropriate, harmful, and hurtful physical and emotional experiences from the past that influence our present-day perceptions and reactions can be specifically identified using the Pesso Method and addressed through symbolic experiences (conceptually similar to systemic constellations). Within the group, participants are then presented with a contrasting physical and emotional experience through role-playing, which reduces the emotional pressure to react dysfunctionally to current contextual conditions (situations, other people, etc.). The process of a Pesso structure in itself usually feels very good, even if one is repeatedly (for shorter periods rather than longer) confronted with unpleasant feelings from one's past – the focus is on the new experience!
Couple therapy
In couples therapy, I offer a space where you can calmly examine and better understand your relationship dynamics. Relationships are dynamic – they challenge us, but they also invite growth. Sometimes tension arises that can feel overwhelming. Sometimes the vitality is lacking, and a feeling of stagnation or distance develops.
In my work, I support you in becoming more aware of your own relationship patterns: What patterns keep repeating themselves? What themes might be connected to your own history? And where does difference simply manifest itself—not as a problem, but as an invitation to mutual understanding? This isn't about assigning "right" or "wrong," but about looking together: Where might your own contribution lie, for which each of you wants to take responsibility? And where is it helpful to recognize and acknowledge differences as such? And if you wish, you can also discover in this process what the other person truly needs, how they "speak love" or "understand love"—and what it could mean for you to freely choose to meet each other in these needs—as an opportunity for connection.
I see my role in this process not as someone who gives answers, but as someone who provides a safe space to find the right answers together with you.
