Therapy – Guidance – Meditation Coaching

Life is process: we are continually changing, those around us are changing, so too our life situation and our environment. Change often means that we have to admit into our life something previously unknown, leave behind what is trusted and familiar, and occasionally do so in a very unexpected and unsettling way.

Sometimes we can “go with the flow”, can accept the change and are flexible. At other times we want to hold on to what cannot be held on to, we want to be in control, are seized by fear, plunge into a crisis. Then we live in the prison of our own concepts and ideas, and have very little freedom to move.

In such times it can be advisable to seek professional help. I can provide you with support in the form of counselling, guidance and psychotherapy.

Integrative Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt therapy is a holistic psychotherapeutic method for coming to terms with oneself. By directing our attention to the present, becoming connected with our own body, perceiving what is actually happening in this moment, and suspending rational thought for a bit, we are strengthening introspection and self-perception, which gradually enables us to increasingly accept ourselves – including our darker sides.

In my work I create a space in which unwanted parts of ourselves we have split off are permitted to surface, a space in which everything has a place that in everyday life – sometimes since early childhood – had to be hidden or suppressed.

Through dialogue and the aid of various gestalt techniques such as constellation work, guided imaginary paths, gentle body-related methods and meditative practice, we approach the difficult themes, clarify the contexts and gain new perspectives. In this way suppressed parts of a personality can be (re-) integrated. This releases energy previously bound up in negativity and unwholesome/self-damaging behaviour patterns, and which we can now harness for ourselves.

Guidance in Times of Crisis

At times life leads us to breaking point, to the very brink of our ability to cope. People and situations we have relied on are suddenly no longer supportive and we are in danger of losing the ground under our feet. Perhaps someone important leaves us, or our job is under threat, an illness is casting a shadow, the key pillars sustaining our life collapse.

At such times we have to find our bearings again in the short term, gain stability and search inwardly for those resilient qualities which, in the longer term, make us less dependent on others and outward circumstances. All of us have inner sources of power which we can tap into and come to trust.

I would like to support you in this search and give you a sense of stability in this process.

Mediation Coaching

People who have embarked on a path of spiritual practice can encounter special difficulties on their path of development.

At times it is not easy to integrate our meditation experiences into everyday life, to reconcile the high aspirations we are striving for in ethical behavior with the reality of our lives. Increasing attentiveness seems to bring with it an increase in the difficult aspects of life. We slip into a spiritual crisis.
At this point it can be good and helpful to seek support. Thanks to my own vast experience in practicing meditation and numerous counseling interviews with people caught in such situations, I can provide the support necessary for dealing with deep meditation experiences, with the estrangement/turning away from old familiar relationships and behavior patterns triggered by taking a new direction in life. In this respect I am extremely grateful for the close ties to my spiritual teacher Wilfried Reuter, who has supported in me in my own quest.

My concern is to encourage clients to find their own path to their very own form spirituality, which in some circumstances can differ from a spiritual school we feel attached to. A path to authentic experience and inner freedom.

“The only thing that can help another person to change is genuine, affectionate attention. We have to learn to love the weaknesses of the other so that they can then find the strength to change. Criticizing the weaknesses of the other person only shackles them and prevents any possible change.”
Rudolf Steiner