Anxiety, OCD & panic
Generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety, specific phobias, and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Exposure-based approaches and cognitive restructuring show the most consistent results for this cluster of difficulties.
Trauma
Post-traumatic stress, complex and developmental trauma, attachment wounds. Schema therapy and a depth-psychology perspective complement behavioral work at levels that purely technical approaches don't always reach.
Personality & identity
Personality structure and disorders, recurring patterns in self-image, relational conflicts with deeper roots, questions of identity — including in intercultural or immigration contexts.
Couples therapy
Work with couples where one or both partners want to understand deeper relational patterns. Focus on transference and attachment dynamics — less on conflict management, more on understanding what is at play. In English and German, including couples whose relationship spans two languages or cultures; my own instrument, the FIRA, helps map the atmosphere between them.
Meaning & growth
Periods of doubt and transition, questions of direction and purpose, existential concerns, professional and personal reorientation. My background in philosophy isn't decoration — it makes possible a language for things that are otherwise hard to name.
Adjustment & alienation
Life between cultures: the invisible labour of building a life in a country that isn't yours, the feeling of not quite belonging anywhere, the exhaustion of navigating daily life in a second language. Particular experience with expatriates, international professionals, and people who have lived significant parts of their lives elsewhere. Therapy in English or German.