COUNSELING for English speakINg CLients And EXPATS

For clients who do not speak German, I offer therapeutic counseling and coaching in English. In-person sessions are held at my private practice in 1070 Vienna. If required, counseling can also be provided online.

Professional Background

My background as psychotherapist (in training under supervision) and counselor is multifaceted. I have studied psychotherapy (Integrative Therapy) in Austria, systems psychodynamics at INSEAD Business School in France and law at the University of Vienna and at Yale Law School in the US. I am a member of the ISPSO (International Organization for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations) and the Austrian association for group dynamics and group therapy (ÖAGG). I work with individual clients at my private practice as well as (pro bono) in a clinical setting at the Psychotherapeutic Clinic (PTA) in Vienna, where I am also (co-)leading a weekly therapy group.

Integrative Therapy and Focus

To me as an integrative therapist, therapy is not psycho-therapy alone, but rather a therapy for, with, by and through the human being as a whole, working with all dimensions of human existence - body, mind, soul, social and ecological context (Petzold, 1970c).

My therapeutical approach is the one of Integrative Therapy, which follows a multi-perspective paradigm, integrating methods from various psychotherapeutic schools (like active psychoanalysis, Gestalttherapie and psychodrama) and the latest neurobiological research by way of a scientifically grounded integration model. The approach was developed in Paris at the end of the 1960s under the direction of Prof Hilarion G. Petzold (et alt) who was later named as one of the leading figures of modern psychotherapy.

Some major themes for which clients consider Counseling:

  • Lifestyle, career and family

  • Adaption to new environment and culture

  • Crisis and conflicts

  • Anxiety, panic and overwhelm

  • Meaning and perspectives

  • Personality, identity and self-worth

  • Relationships and emotional regulation

  • Psychosomatic problems