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CORE PRINCIPLES
Before I began working exclusively as a counselor and therapist, I had the opportunity to support people in a variety of life and work contexts. These experiences have broadened my perspective and continue to reinforce my belief that every person brings their own story with them—and at the same time possesses the ability to explore new paths.
I work with people facing life crises, processes of change, and personal transitions. For me, therapy means working together to understand connections, develop new perspectives, and find paths that better fit one’s own life today.
As a systemic therapist, I am convinced that problems never arise in isolation from their context. Our relationships, experiences, and formative influences shape how we feel, think, and act. I constantly see how relieving it is to understand patterns and dynamics—and to recognize that every behavior once had a good reason. Change can emerge from this understanding.
I don’t believe in “fixing” people. I believe in working together to understand what made sense—and using that to develop new possibilities for the future.
In my work, I combine empathy and appreciation with clarity. I also address what I perceive, and I see therapy as a trusting process that facilitates understanding, growth, and genuine connection.
You have all the resources to achieve your desired change.
As a systemicist, I take the position that every person intuitively has the knowledge of what their own soul needs. Consulting, coaching and therapy help to open up this knowledge in consciousness.
Resistance is a respectable need information.
It can arise towards certain methods or topics in the session. I understand resistance as competent decisions of the person to be counseled. Consciously or unconsciously, everyone has the knowledge of what is good for him/her at the moment. My task is to sensitively and mindfully perceive and accept the resistance, to respect it as a need to protect something and to continue where you allow it.
Clarity
"The condition for newness is an unshakable conviction that there is no prescribed, unchangeable plan for your inner being, but that all paths can be uncovered, mended, beautified, and built entirely anew." V. Satir
All behavior is based on a positive intention.
Symptoms, conflicts and problems are not understood as deficits or misbehavior. They are competent attempts to solve a challenging situation.
The receiver chooses the value of the message.
I provide you with impulses. How you receive and understand them, whether my questions stimulate you or my hypotheses generate a useful resonance with you, only you decide.
Perception is subjective.
Every experience we make, we make individually. Every sentence we hear, we hear and understand in our own way. Everything we experience, we perceive through our unique glasses. As a systemicist, I do not find these differences in perception and experience disturbing. On the opposite. They are allowed and desired, and are invited into the conversation. I see differences as something valuable. It is valuable to deal with them.
Challenges and disturbances always develop in the interaction in the social environment.
Therefore, I do not work with the individual person in isolation, but invite relatives, friends or other reference persons relevant to the topic into the counseling. This does not always have to happen in real terms via presence. As a systemicist, I have a repertoire of creative methods with which the environment can become part of the session even without the direct presence.
Diversity
As your counselor and therapist, I have respect and appreciation for the different ways of living and loving.
Reality consists of nothing but stories.
Everyone tells their own life story to some degree, following a tradition of storytelling. A narrative.
Therefore it is also possible to tell one's own stories in a new or different way and thereby make change possible.
In counseling and therapy, I am interested in the individual story, your attitude toward what is being told, and how you tell it.
When you tell, do you follow the pattern of a storytelling tradition or a long-term internalized belief system?
How do you look at the solution?
Who determines your life, you or your story?
