“Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.” Tara Brach
My approach
I work with people in Berlin who come from somewhere else — expats, migrants,refugees, and anyone navigating life between cultures. Maybe German still feels like asecond language for your feelings. Maybe “home” is a complicated word. Maybe you’re holding together a life across two or three countries and languages, and it’s a lot.You don’t needto explain the basics of what it’s like to leave a place and rebuild a life somewhere new. I’ve done it myself — Greece, Spain, the UK, and now Berlin — and I bring that lived understanding into the room, alongside my clinical training.
How I work:
I don’t follow a fixed formula. My approach is integrative, which means I draw on several models depending on what’s actually useful for you, in this session, on this day.
Humanistic & person-centred (Roger's method)— you lead the pace and direction. My job is to offer a space that’s warm, honest, and free of judgment, grounded in the belief that you already hold the capacity for your own growth.
Psychodynamic — looking at how earlier experiences, relationships, andenvironments quietly shape the patterns you live out now, often without realising it.
Relational — the relationship between us is not incidental to the work, it is a lot of the work. Feeling genuinely seen and safe with another person is often where real change begins.
Trauma-informed — especially relevant for experiences of displacement, migration, or early developmental trauma, where the nervous system — not just thestory — needs to feel safe before insight can land.
Internal Family Systems (IFS) — I often use the language of “parts” to help youget curious about the different, sometimes conflicting, voices inside you, rather thantreating any one of them as the whole truth of who you are. For multilingual,multicultural people, these parts often show up differently depending on thelanguage you’re speaking or the place you’re in — you might notice you’re freer inone language, more guarded in another, or that a version of you that made sense inyour home country doesn’t quite fit here. Rather than treating that as fragmentation,we work on integrating those different parts and identities into a fuller sense of who you are, across all the languages and places that have shaped you.
Mindfulness — simple tools for coming back into the present moment, useful for anxiety, overwhelm, and the general noise of living between languages and cultures.
Psychological Person-centred Counselling, not clinical diagnosis.
It’s worth being clear about what this work is, and isn’t. State-regulated psychotherapy in Germany usually starts from a diagnostic lens: yourexperience gets mapped onto a clinical category (a disorder, a diagnosis code) so that the “right” treatment protocol can be applied. That model has its place, and for someconditions it’s genuinely necessary. Person-centred, integrative counselling starts from adifferent premise. You are not a diagnosis to be treated — you’re a whole person with your own agency, history, and capacity for growth, and my role is to walk alongside that process rather than direct it from above. Nothing here is about labelling what’s “wrong” with you.
It’s about creating the conditions — safety, understanding, a genuine relationship —in which you can understand yourself more clearly and make the changes you want to make,at your own pace. If what you’re looking for is a formal diagnosis or clinical treatment plan, I can help you think about where to find that. If what you’re looking for is a space to be understood as awhole person while you work through what’s difficult, that’s where this approach is strongest. Who I work with Internationals, migrants, and multicultural individuals in Berlin but also online, too. People processing displacement, relocation, or the loss of “home” as a fixed place. Refugees and asylum seekers, including minors and LGBTQ+ individuals. Anyone working through trauma, relationship difficulties, attachment patterns, or anger. People wanting to better understand themselves and how they relate to others.