Methods
What I'm looking for is not out there, it's in me.
Helen Keller
Systemic Therapy
As one of four scientifically recognised therapy methods in Germany, systemic therapy
understands reality as something that we constantly construct anew through our coexistence and our language. In contrast to other classical therapy methods, systemic therapists do not work with diagnoses or disease concepts. Instead, we assume that symptoms perform a certain important function that needs to be understood and appreciated before other more helpful solutions are developed. Instead of focusing only on you as an individual, we will also take your (family/work/relationship) system into consideration. Together we will look for the strengths and resources you already possess as an expert on your own life. The aim is to (re)gain a higher level of well-being and life satisfaction.
In order to further complement this therapeutic approach, I also include the following recognised methods in my work.
understands reality as something that we constantly construct anew through our coexistence and our language. In contrast to other classical therapy methods, systemic therapists do not work with diagnoses or disease concepts. Instead, we assume that symptoms perform a certain important function that needs to be understood and appreciated before other more helpful solutions are developed. Instead of focusing only on you as an individual, we will also take your (family/work/relationship) system into consideration. Together we will look for the strengths and resources you already possess as an expert on your own life. The aim is to (re)gain a higher level of well-being and life satisfaction.
In order to further complement this therapeutic approach, I also include the following recognised methods in my work.
ACT
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) developed by Stephen Hayes
ACT is a relatively new psychotherapy method developed from contextual behavioural therapy. ACT is intended to support people in becoming aware of the feelings and thoughts that prevent them from leading a life based on their values. These feelings and thoughts are not to be fought against, but rather carried along on the way to a more fulfilled life without being slowed down or put off track by them. The client learns to detach themselves more and more from unhelpful feelings and thoughts and to be less influenced by them. To achieve this, we use what is known as the Hexaflex model to develop more psychological flexibility.
What matters in your life? What do you get up for in the morning? Even if dealing with one’s own values may not be easy at times, it is still very important and helpful. After we have identified your values, we will then work together to formulate realistic goals and develop appropriate steps to achieve them. In this method the therapist is not an omniscient, unapproachable expert, but a person with their own difficulties and imperfections.
What matters in your life? What do you get up for in the morning? Even if dealing with one’s own values may not be easy at times, it is still very important and helpful. After we have identified your values, we will then work together to formulate realistic goals and develop appropriate steps to achieve them. In this method the therapist is not an omniscient, unapproachable expert, but a person with their own difficulties and imperfections.
EFT
Emotion Focused Therapy developed by Les Greenberg
Many of us learn to suppress ‘healthy’ emotions and to cover them up with other unhelpful emotions (so-called secondary emotions) during our childhood and adolescence. This is how we try to protect ourselves from emotional pain. The aim of the EFT method is to transform emotions through emotional work. We will make contact with the underlying healthy primary emotions, such as sadness, assertive anger, fear, or feeling alone and vulnerable. This puts us in a position to express our genuine needs and develop a better relationship with others and ourselves. Part of this emotional work also involves strengthening our natural capacity for self-assertion and self-compassion.
Many of us learn during childhood to actually suppress "healthy" emotions and to cover them up with other, less helpful emotions (so-called secondary emotions). So we try to protect ourselves from emotional pain. The aim of the EFT method is to transform emotions through emotional work. In working with EFT, we will come back into contact with the underlying, adaptive primary emotions. From there, we can express our needs and develop a better relationship with others and with ourselves. Part of this emotional work is also to strengthen our natural capacity for self-assertion and self-compassion.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness forms the basis of my therapeutic work. It enables me and my clients to connect with the present moment and to create space for thoughts, emotions, body sensations and everything else that arises in the present moment. An attitude to life that does not require automatic judgements or the urge to get rid of or avoid difficult things. Mindfulness also makes it possible not to reflexively hold on to what is pleasant but instead connect to an inner calmness and serenity.
The mindfulness-based interventions and methods in my work are ideologically neutral. However, I also have experience in Buddhist psychology/meditation, which we can incorporate if desired.
Contact
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10965 Berlin