Are you feeling lonely, frustrated, or anxious?

Are you experiencing difficulties in your relationships or at work?

Are you looking for the deeper sense of meaning in your life?

Essence psychotherapy and NARM sessions focus on your deeper longing: what you truely want for yourself. Together, we create a safe and authentic therapeutic relationship with curiosity, compassion and respect for your experience. We meet as two human beings to support your exploration of your issues and whatever may be in the way of your deeper wishes.

The goal of psychotherapy is not to undo the pain of the past, but to address how past experiences continue to affect your present life to regain a sense of agency. Developing self-compassion and the capacity to stay present with difficult emotions are essential for a sustainable transformion, rather than analysing the past.

Unlike coaching, which often focuses on behavioural changes or future goals, Essence psychotherapy focuses on restoring a healthy relationship with yourself in the present. Our sessions meet you exactly where you are, gently exploring the protective patterns that may be preventing you from fullfilling your deeper wishes and allowing changes to unfold.

Traumatic experiences and nervous system dysregulation can shape how we experience ourselves and the world. They may manifest as anxiety, frustration, disconnection or emotional numbness. By drawing on your resources, we gradually cultivate a compassionate presence towards yourself including feelings that may have been difficult to face. Through the wisdom of your body you may beginn to reconnect with your essential qualities such as trust, compassion, joy and inner strength.

Sustainable transformation takes time and a willingness to turn towards yourself. T therefore encourage you to set aside some time each day for a supportive practice such as self-reflection, inquiry, journaling, meditation or physical exercise. As trust in yourself grows, you may experience greater freedom, authenticity and fullfillment in your everyday life.

Essence Psychotherapy can offer valuable support in reconnecting with yourself and meaningful transformation. However, it is not intended as a substitute for medical or psychiatric treatment, as support for suicidal crises, severe psychiatric conditions or significant addiction. In these situations, appropriate specialised care is essential.

Are you experiencing unexpected awakening experiences?

Are you frustrated or disillusioned with your spiritual community or practice?

Are you feeling a deep sense of loneliness in your spiritual longing?

A spiritual crisis often involves profound loneliness, disorientation or a feeling of abandonment. Having spent decades in spiritual groups and several years living in a spiritual community with a teacher, I have personally experienced many of these challenges and offer to accompany you with compassion on your journey.

In every sincere search for freedom or awakening, there may come a moment of profound disillusionment, often accompanied by the feeling of losing the ground beneath your feet. This can be a valuable opportunity for transformation, as you begin to recognise the connection between spiritual practice and the avoidance of unresolved suffering or trauma (known as spiritual bypassing).

Drawing on my personal experience and understanding of the unique challenges of this journey, I offer a safe and authentic space for reconnecting with yourself. Often, an essential part of this process is learning to trust yourself again, developing the capacity to embrace uncomfortable feelings and reconnecting with your most vulnerable needs and deepest wishes.

Depending on your individual situation, a few counselling sessions may be sufficient to help you find greater clarity, grounding and trust in yourself.

Couple relationships and parenting are often our greatest challenges and at the same time the greatest potential for inner healing and transformation. Many of our problems arise from early painful relationship experiences and resurface in our current relationships. I know from my own experience how transformative it is to consciously deal with current difficulties in a relationship if both partners open themselves up to it.

My role in couples sessions is impartiality, so I am an ally of both partners and the couple relationship and, contrary to what many couples initially assume, I am not a judge or lawyer. What is crucial for a successful couples session is that both partners feel safe enough to put aside their usual defense mechanisms against the inner pain for a moment. The painful feelings can be expressed through contact with me in order to protect the other partner. When both witness each other’s vulnerability, a deeper connection can develop and both learn how to contribute to a more fulfilling relationship dynamic where love can flow again. Often the goal of couples sessions may not be to heal the painful past, but rather to change the effect of that past on the current relationship. 

Since triggers arise in almost every couple dynamic, it is helpful to practice dealing with them consciously as early as possible. Don´t wait until it is unbearable as chronic and long-term hurts make the path to common connection more difficult. While learning healthy communication patterns is important, it is even better to rediscover the safe and loving connection that was present in the deeply love phase. By delving into this phase together, we can uncover and heal the inner life patterns that have been triggered in each partner. Once both partners can perceive each other’s essence and feel safe and connected in their love, communication will flow naturally.

When a relationship can no longer become a safe and loving connection, couples sessions can help facilitate a mature and responsible separation.

With years of experience helping parents in Berlin regain authentic authority with their children, I understand that often the solution for problems with children is a transformation of the parents themselves. Once parents are back in their natural parental energy the children feel a bond and the family dynamics changes.

This specialized parent coaching is neither a therapy nor a training, but a joint development of practical behavioral changes in specific problem situations. These are practiced with the help of role plays, videos or systemic constellations until the parents feel confident enough to use the new behavior at home. Based on this experience, we refine the new behavior until the parents feel back in their natural parental energy.

As a systemic Supervisor, I offer my neutral perspective to assist therapists, pedagogues and teams in navigating challenging situations within their work. Systemic supervision is therefore not a training course but a safe framework for self-reflection and becoming aware of entanglements in the work context that conceal existing resources. Trust in one´s professional skills is restored through different perspectives on the difficulties, which can lead to quick solutions. Particularly during difficult team dynamics, a neutral supervisor can provide valuable support in exploring the underlying causes of difficulties and finding effective solutions.

Systemic supervision offers a unique approach to professional development and growth. By focusing on the interconnected relationships and dynamics within a therapeutic setting or team, this form of supervision helps gain a deeper understanding of the complex systems at play in their work. Through reflective discussions and role changes, dynamic case studies, systemic embodiment tools and collaborative problem-solving, professionals can enhance their skills, gain new perspectives, and improve their effectiveness in supporting clients. Systemic supervision encourages to consider the broader context in which support takes place, leading to more holistic and impactful interventions. It provides a supportive space to explore own biases, assumptions, and blind spots, ultimately leading to more culturally sensitive and effective practices.

I have many years of experience especially in the field of youth welfare.

After a trial session, five to ten follow-up appointments are usually arranged.