But me, who tried to master more than one meander already,
may never consider myself to be better than those in the meander.
Erich Fried
What to expect?
You are looking for support
- to manage difficult problems in your life,
- to eliminate or alliviate symptoms, or
- to accept and cope with unchangeable personality traits.
I offer myself as a companion (Rogers) to your development. You as a whole person are important, the emotional as much as the intellectual or the physical experience. We will focus more on the present than the past, but we will of course recur to it, if that is important. You will learn to become aware of your creative problem-solvings, which become evident through your symptoms. You can decide then what to change, how, and when. Goals therefore will be found together, with me working as a facilitator.
Which methods?
My therapeutic work is based on the Person Centered Approach by Carl R. Rogers, using methods of behavior and trauma therapy, and physical interventions as well. Awareness of physical experiences, taking the inner child or team into account, or exploring the unknown through art work are as important to me as spirituality, mindfulness, and presence.
The concept of Client-Centered Psychotherapy was developed by Carl R. Rogers (1902 – 1987) and changed to become the Person-Centered Approach. The basic hypothesis states that each person in an atmosphere of psychological security and unconditional positive regard will unfold his or her inborn tendency for growth. In the psychotherapeutic process you will find the courage and the power to develop the paths established in yourself and to try out new experiences at your own speed. Empirical psychotherapeutic research has proven a helpful relationship as the most important factor for the healing of a person.
Behavior Therapy assumes that human behavior has been learned and therefore can be deprogrammed, extincted or newly established. The history of learning will be taken into account as far as it may be responsible for the formation of a problem. Identifying and analyzing your actual grievances leads to a concrete definition of tasks, which allow for a transfer into your every day life. You will be actively included into planning your therapy and become an expert for your disturbances, and you will learn to include other ressources of help into your development (e.g. internet, sports, salutogenic behaviors).
Therapeutical change happens in a dialogue among equals and through acknowledging what is now. In my role as a therapist, I accept you as a hurt person and consider myself as a partner in solidarity (…) in a common fight against adverse life-circumstances (Fiedler).
I have elaborately worked on that topic in my dissertation (unfortenately in German only), see “publications”.