This user has not added any information to their profile yet.
I earned a Doctorate in Natural Sciences from the University of Muenster in Germany in 1990. Subsequently, I worked for more than two decades in different roles in the financial services industry in Germany, Luxembourg and Ireland. Matured and grown through the challenges of a deeply transformative crisis, I changed my direction in 2016: In Ireland, I worked part-time in residential rehabilitation for addiction and studied Counselling and Psychotherapy. I qualified as a Psychotherapist with an I.A.C.P. accredited Diploma in May 2020.
Living in the beautiful countryside of West Cork, my focus moved to Online-Therapy. In June 2020, I graduated from the Online Therapy Institute as a Certified Online Therapist and set up my private therapy practice. Subsequently, I was awarded a First Class Honours BSc Counselling & Psychotherapy Degree from Middlesex University in London. I also trained in Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapy and Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR). I am currently pursuing the Post-Graduate Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies (Bessel van der Kolk & al., Trauma Research Foundation) and the MSc Programme in Consciousness, Spirituality and Transpersonal Psychology with Alef Trust and Liverpool John Moores University.
In my therapeutic work, I draw on various approaches: Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR), Internal Family Systems Therapy (IFS), Trauma-Informed Practice, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Humanistic Integrative Psychotherapy, Transpersonal Psychology.
IACP Accredited Psychotherapist, Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR) Therapist, Internal Family Systems (IFS) Therapist; Focussing on Trauma/PTSD, Anxiety, Panic, Depression, Sex and Porn Addiction; Offering Video Call Counselling for Ireland, UK and EU; Working in English or German.
If we are wounded emotionally we cannot heal just by challenging our irrational beliefs, because thinking has only limited access to the limbic system of the brain where emotional learnings are stored, and to the deep brain where core feelings originate.
In therapy, we need to leave the sphere of cognition—the thinking parts of our brain—and enter the sphere of the inner felt sense and emotions, where we use attention to present moment experience in the body.
The problem often is that we think we only have one 'I' and 'I' want to change something so 'I' should be able to do so. But fact is, we have multiple 'I's and every 'I' might want something different.
When the whole system is affected by trauma, the different 'I's polarise and become more extreme, pulling in different directions. There is no point in beating some of them, challenging some of them, trying to get rid of some of them.
We need to increase our capacity to rest in the tension of inner opposites and conflict, even when anxiety wants us to collapse into an interpretation. By giving attention to our inner conflicts and our suffering we can heal the wounded parts and harmonise our whole inner system.
I learned this also through own experience.
Adults, Individuals
Trauma/PTSD, Internal Family Systems Therapy & Deep Brain Reorienting
My fee is €85.
English, German