Gestalt therapy and couples counseling in Berlin
Gestalt therapy and counseling in individual sessions and for couples in Berlin Pankow.
Appreciative support
Personal Growth
Fulfilling relationships
Psychological Counseling and Gestalt Therapy
There are situations and personal constitutions in which we urgently need support and guidance. However, it does not need to become unbearable before seeking help. My fundamental conviction is that every person and every couple benefits from expert support.
Your reasons for seeking information about psychological counseling or therapy will be very diverse. Perhaps you are dealing with a specific issue or event that you would like support in dealing with. Or perhaps you don't feel comfortable in your own skin or in your current life situation and want to change something, but you can't get anywhere on your own. Perhaps you aren't even able to pin down your dissatisfaction or depression. In any of these cases, you are very welcome - alone or with your partner.
Please feel free to contact me for a free initial consultation to get to know each other and to work out together which topics are most important to you.
Services
- Personal consultations (individual or couple sessions)
- Remote appointments via video (only for individual sessions)
- As a special feature, I offer conversations while walking (only for individual sessions)
- I work in German and English. I also understand Dutch, but am not fluent in speaking.
Prices
An individual session lasts 50 minutes and costs 80 €.
Couples sessions last 80 minutes, usually take place with a second counselor and cost €120 per person.
An initial consultation is free of charge.
To arrange an appointment for an initial consultation, please contact kontakt@therapie-hirsch.de or use the contact form.
Billing via health insurance
Unfortunately, it is not possible to bill Gestalt therapy services through public health insurance in Germany (unlike in Austria, for example). If you have private insurance, reimbursement or coverage might be possible.
Some advantages of paying yourself:
- The waiting time until the start of therapy is usually shorter
- No diagnoses or reports are sent to the health insurance company
- You are not dependent on the approval of the health insurance company
Please also contact me if you are looking for psychological counseling or gestalt therapy support but are in a financially difficult situation.
What is Gestalt Therapy?
It is not easy to distinguish between the various types of psychotherapy. Gestalt therapy is a humanistic therapy approach - in other words: it focuses on you as a person. Contrary to what the term "Gestalt" suggests, it is not an art therapy, but a conversation-based psychotherapy. However, creative techniques might be integrated. The approach was founded in the 1950s by the psychoanalysts Fritz and Laura Perls and the social philosopher and writer Paul Goodman.
Further information about Gestalt therapy can amongst others be found on the following websites:
About me
I grew up in the Ruhr area and have been living and working in Berlin since 2016.
I studied psychology and economics and have worked in research and business. I have been working as a Gestalt therapist since 2019 and in my own practice since 2022. I also work in human resources development.
In counseling or therapy, I meet you in my role as a Gestalt therapist. Just like you, however, I have more than one role; which one is in the foreground depends on the context.
I don't like being pigeonholed. That is also particularly important to me in my work with you, my clients. Gestalt therapy provides a good basis for this understanding.
Details about my career
- Gestalt therapist in own practice since 2022
- Counselor in life coaching at the Berlin Cathedral, "Lebensberatung im Berliner Dom" (2019-2022)
- Assistance in training units at IGG Gestalt Institute Berlin (2019, 2022-present)
- Further training in the integration of body psychotherapeutic methods into psychotherapy with Andrea Riedl (2021-2022)
- Further training in couples therapy at IGG Gestalt Institute Berlin (2020-2022)
- Further training as a Gestalt therapist at IGG Gestalt Institute Berlin (2015-2019)
- Licensed as a non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy (2018)
- PhD at the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands (2012-2017)
- Degree in Psychology (2011-2016)
- Degree in Economics (2005-2011)
In addition to the above-mentioned training and further education, I have been greatly influenced and inspired by texts and books by Laura Perls (e.g. "Living at the Boundary"), Irvin D. Yalom (e.g. "Love's Executioner"), David Schnarch (e.g. "Passionate Marriage") and Friedemann Schulz von Thun (e.g. "Talking with Each Other").