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’reholding together a life across two or three countries and languages, and it’s a lot.You don’t have to explain the basics of what it’s like to leave a place and rebuild a lifesomewhere new. I’ve done it myself — Greece, Spain, the UK, and now Berlin — and Ibring that lived understanding into the room, alongside my clinical training.​How I workI don’t follow a fixed formula. My approach is integrative, which means I draw onseveral models depending on what’s actually useful for you, in this session, on this day: Humanistic & person-centred — you lead the pace and direction. My job is to offera space that’s warm, honest, and free of judgment, grounded in the belief that youalready 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 ofthe work. Feeling genuinely seen and safe with another person is often where realchange 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 whoyou are, across all the languages and places that have shaped you. Mindfulness — simple tools for coming back into the present moment, useful foranxiety, overwhelm, and the general noise of living between languages and cultures.I close longer pieces of work with a small ritual: bringing an object, image, or poem thatrepresents the journey we’ve been on together. It’s a way of marking what’s shifted, in aform that isn’t just words. ​Psychological 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 thatthe “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 ratherthan 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 building a life in Berlin. 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 anxiety, trauma, relationship difficulties, attachment patterns, or anger. People wanting to better understand themselves and how they relate to others.