A warm welcome to my practise for solution-focused coaching, life counselling, psychotherapy and couple counselling in the Lower Rhine, Neuss, Meerbusch and Düsseldorf regions.

I am a member of the international trade association for integrated solution-focused psychotherapy and personality development (ILP V) and I offer different forms of counselling:

Coaching
The focus in my coaching sessions is to support your aims and to find ways of achieving them. These could be how to achieve a more healthy Work-Life balance, life satisfaction, or of a professional nature. You may want to work on a self steered improvement of perception and self-reflection. With the focus on your strengths and (maybe still unrecognized) resources, we will compile solid and realistic aims. More...

Life counselling
Now, here you are, with no idea of how to move on. Maybe this is the right time to turn to somebody who can be a signpost. The aim of my life counselling is to enable you to come out of the crisis stronger. Our focus is directed strictly forwards, i.e. to where you would like to go. With the help of your unique abilities and strengths, again you can become your own expert for your own life, luck and satisfaction. More...

Couple counselling
Whether it is an enduring or an acute crisis; couples come because they suffer and don't know the way out. Often this expresses itself by frequent quarrelling (mostly because of the same things), lack of closeness, communication problems, jealousy, financial problems or sexual difficulties. In the couple counselling sessions we will concentrate on the first common issue given by you; this allows us to formulate aims within the partnership and to break through the rigid communication patterns with lasting effect. More...

Psychotherapy
Instead of concentrating on a diagnosis, we will find ways and solutions which allow you to deal with your condition. Your personal strengths and resources are in the foreground instead of your problems These strengths will support and enable you to recognise and experience happiness again. Negative mental patterns will be substituted with positive self-images and convictions. The energy which has been taken away from you will be led back positively through systemic interventions. More...

Autonomy training
Using the same (and often devastating) behaviour in stressful situations over and over again. Does this sound familiar? Often, we depend too much on things or people. We worry, to the extent that we cannot see the wood for the trees, or our self doubts prevent us from reaching our aims and wishes. In my work with you we will uncover these automatic behavioral traps and compile strategies to counter them. More...

Psychosomatics intervention
'It hits me in the stomach' 'I am under constant pressure', 'This really gets under my skin', ... these are all phrases which are well-known to us. The head, the feelings and the body all belong together and do not wish to be handled independently. If one of these is neglected or ignored, the body often announces itself as the last authority. The body speaks a clear and often painful language which you cannot ignore easily. We will use the positive mutual influnece of body and mind to improve your health. More...

What makes my work stand out?
In all of my counselling services I retreat from the usual approach to counselling by focussing mainly on the present and future; I do not analyse the past. Although I am convinced (as are most psychotherapists) that source of our significant problems lie in the past, I believe that you can develop strategies and tools yourself to master your own life, even if this may well be against all the odds. You can focus on the solution without being fixated with the problem. I work in a solution-focused way. Together with you, I will compile individual solutions for your problems which precisely fit your strengths, resources and your personality. When I use my interventions you are my frame of reference. My therapeutic work is supported by elements of Steve de Shazer and Milton Erickson's solution focused brief therapy, NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) and systemic intervention. More to my work...

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