I offer psychological counseling and coaching in Berlin. My broad experience with people from different cultures and contexts in all walks of life has prepared me specially to help those who are facing challenges related to
living far away from their home country and culture.
My counseling method finds and explores the mental processes that are often hidden from us, but play an important role in our lives. These processes, rooted in the experience of early relationships, can create dysfunctional
and sometimes hurtful patterns that we repeat as adults. By understanding these patterns and the conflicts that they create in us, we can make better decisions for ourselves and our actions.
Each person has unique resources and the potential for personal growth. I provide a safe environment based on a developing trust between us, that frees you to talk about issues in your life that trouble you and get in the
way of your growth and well-being. The experience of feeling heard and understood by another person has a healing effect.
Many of my clients are facing the challenges related to living away from their home country and culture. Although many of us have left our home country behind, we continue to carry parts of it inside: our mother tongue,
relationships to familiy and friends, traditions, beliefs, what a good life is, what community means and how we find our place in it.
We struggle to reconcile the new and old worlds; commonly, however, we feel torn between conflicting expectations, which result in feeling that we don’t belong fully in either place. Being “border crossers” and “double
outsiders” often causes self-doubt and feelings of guilt or shame. We feel vulnerable and lonely.
In the counseling process I support you in exploring and understanding the different parts of your identity and how you can integrate them. With more self-awareness it is easier for you to find your own individual path.
I am a clinical psychologist in training to become therapist in psychodynamic therapy and psychoanalyis. In addition to individual psychological counseling, I work with groups, teams, and organizations. I speak English,
German, Spanish and Norwegian.