My services
Psychotherapy
Psychotherapy supports you in finding your resources and resilience and helps you to make good use of them.
It enables you to regain happiness, hope and balance.
Psychotherapy constitutes an important (self-)reflection that helps you change your behaviour for the better and to reduce suffering in difficult times.
Self-awareness
Self-awareness aims to stimulate and develop personal and social skills in due consideration of your life story.
Supervision
Supervision provides a solution-oriented reflection of occupational actions, assistance in coping with job-induced difficulties and furthermore it supports communication and cooperation contributing to your (re)gaining of joy and enthusiasm for your professional activity.
Professional counselling
Professional counselling provides orientation and improves your situation in difficult and demanding phases of life.
Expert witness
As a court-appointed Expert witness I compile expert opinions with particular focus on custody disputes and youth welfare.
Target groups: children and adolescents, adults, families, blended families and people with migrational background.
"The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts."
Process
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My approach to your request is accommodating, dedicated and efficient.
A close relationship with my clients and the principle of ‘helping people help themselves’ is of utmost importance to me.
I accompany and support you professionally and sympathetically and offer you a cooperative and careful treatment in a friendly, comfortable atmosphere.
Please take a closer look at my areas of expertise, to get a better idea which treatments I can offer you.
With my help you will soon gain self-determination and find balance between instinct and reason.
I will take ample time for your request. According to your needs you can – if possible – get a last minute appointment with me.
I take my legal obligation to provide clients with absolute confidenciality very seriously.
During the first appointment we will carefully clarify your request; this process usually takes about one and a half hours. Following sessions take 50 minutes.
Under special circumstances I offer home visits.
Please take note that your health insurance will refund a part of the fee after medical examination.
The ÖGK refunds € 31,50,-, the BVAEB € 42,40,- and the SVS € 45,-.
"Sometimes a sentence, an idea can change your life."
About me
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born 1958 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
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Studies of Psychology and Education and English and Anglo-American Studies
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married, three adult sons
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until 2019 employed as a clinical psychologist in the Department of Youth and Family, Klagenfurt am Wörthersee
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Psychologist and Psychotherapist in private practice
Health Psychologist (entry in the list of clinical psychologists and health psychologists of the Ministry of Health in 1992)
Clinical Psychologist (entry in the list of clinical psychologists and health psychologists of the Ministry of Health in 1992 – specialised in child, youth and family psychology)
Psychotherapist, Behavior Therapy (entry in the list of psychotherapists of the Ministry of Health in 1997)
Sworn and court certified expert witness (entry in the SDG list of the Ministry of Justice in 2006)
Certified child, youth and family psychologist (BÖP-certificate in 2016)
Psychotherapist for babies, children and adolescents (ÖBVP-certificate in 2018)
EMDR Practitioner (Certificate of the EMDR Fachgesellschaft Austria in 2021)
Memberships:
Member of the Professional Association of Austrian psychologists (BÖP)
Member of the Association for Behavior Modification (AVM)
Member of the Federation of court-certified experts
Member of the EMDR Fachgesellschaft Österreich
Member of the European Society for fairy tales (EMG)
Professional experience
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treating children and adolescents and their caregivers in the outpatient and inpatient setting
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expert in educational counselling
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working with stress in relationships, with separation and divorce, child custody disputes and access arrangements
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working with crises, stress, overwork and physical symptoms and diverse chronic diseases of children and adults
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treating fear, isolation and helplessness
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treating traumatic stress disorders and PTSD
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working with children (foster children, adopted children) and children who have to stay in institutions or group homes and their caregivers