INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING

My approach is rooted in a true love for individual indifferences and in a thorough personal understanding of what it means to be an international, expat and someone living in a changing world. Integrated Therapies is based on a forever developing understanding of how our bodies and minds work together and on how memories, identity, learned behaviour and emotional responses are stored in our soma (from Greek: "living body"). When we start counselling together, we will dive into conversations that trigger us to open up our current state of being, acknowledge any lingering traumas and uncertainties, and build more meaningful connections with ourselves, our loved ones and society at large. We use the therapeutic relationship to explore new ways of responding and interpreting stimuli. Our work together will seek to be transformational. Meaning that we will co-create an authentic space where the exploration is deeply inter-personal rather than schematic and will bring about new insights and ways to see and act on things. I follow the principles of Gestalt therapy, which are: phenomenology, dialogical relationships and experimentation. These principles are centered on increasing a person's awareness, freedom, and self-direction​. We will focus on the present experience of your inner and outer worlds to find how you can take action in creating positive change. Within this context, I will play an active part in coming up with somatic or experiential ways to aid your process. ​Staying in the "here and now".​ The goal of gestalt therapy is to achieve an integration of the different levels of human experience - cognitive, bodily, sensory, emotional, imaginative - without favouring anyone in particular.