My training

The professional basis of my therapy work is a 3½-year training qualifying me as an integrative gestalt therapist I completed at the Therapeutic Institute Berlin. This training also included spiritual counseling.

Currently I am undergoing training in Somatic Experiencing (SE), a trauma therapy formulated by Peter Levine.

Nurturing the heart – many years of meditation practice and voluntary hospice work are further key aspects in my therapy profile.

The legal basis for my work resides in the “Permit to professionally practice the healing arts – limited to the area of psychotherapy according to the Alternative Practitioners Law.” Training completed under the direction of Christoph Mahr.

Buddhist Meditation

Through our breathing practicing meditation brings us into contact with ourselves, with our body and feelings. We aim for peace and composure, and experience that we do not have to immediately react to everything we perceive. In this way we learn to be friendly and generous towards ourselves and others. Gradually we learn to recognize reality, to understand and accept it, and so cultivate a cheerful serenity.

I discovered the Buddhist meditation techniques of Metta, Samatha and Vipassana as a source of strength many years ago. Meditation is a wonderful way to develop mindfulness and awareness, key requirements for inner growth. We learn to calm and focus our minds, and let go of our preconceived ideas of how things should be. We learn to caringly devote ourselves to our own lives and experiences, the present moment and other beings and creatures.

Focusing regularly and continuously on our inner presence can gradually untie old “knots” and lead us to our innate qualities of goodness and compassion.

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Voluntary End-of-Life Care

Besides my therapy work I have accompanied for many years incurably ill persons during their final phase of life. Here, too, the aim is to create an inner space in which everything is allowed to exist, in which everything is allowed to manifest itself – and we learn to caringly accept fear and despair.

The main concern is to tolerate what is happening, to abide when others turn away. Perhaps we can help tie up loose ends in those lives, or resolve difficult relationships, if not directly in reality then at least inwardly, for ourselves. In this way it is possible to support a peaceful parting.

For relatives and friends a sympathetic ear, a dialogue partner who does not judge and appraise, can be helpful in this difficult time.

Hospice of the Neighborhood Center Schöneberg