Darf meine Therapeutin selbst betroffen sein?


Warum eigene innere Arbeit ein Geschenk für die therapeutische Beziehung ist


„Ich hätte lieber eine Therapeutin, die selbst keine eigenen Themen hat – sonst habe ich immer das Gefühl, ich könnte sie triggern.“

Diese Aussage hat mich vor kurzem erreicht. Und sie hat mich nicht kaltgelassen – nicht, weil ich mich angegriffen fühlte, sondern weil sie ein weit verbreitetes Missverständnis sichtbar macht:

Dass Therapeut:innen am besten neutral, unberührt und möglichst distanziert sein sollten.
Aber ich glaube nicht an Distanz.
Ich glaube an Tiefe. Echtheit. Innere Klarheit.


Ein persönlicher Moment, der meine Arbeit heute prägt


Ich erinnere mich an eine Szene in meiner eigenen Therapie: Ich war verletzlich, erschöpft, und gleichzeitig vorsichtig. Bloß nicht zu viel sein. Bloß niemanden belasten.

Doch meine Therapeutin war einfach da. Still. Klar. Warm.
Ich musste nichts erklären. Ich musste niemanden schützen. Ich durfte einfach Mensch sein.

Heute, Jahre später, bin ich selbst Therapeutin. Und genau dieser Moment hat mich geprägt.


Nicht trotz meiner eigenen Geschichte, sondern weil ich sie bewusst durchlebt und verarbeitet habe, kann ich heute mit innerer Ruhe und echter Präsenz begleiten.



Therapeutin mit eigener Geschichte – ein Risiko oder eine Ressource?


In Gesprächen höre ich immer wieder:
„Ich möchte nicht das Gefühl haben, jemanden zu triggern.“
„Ich suche jemanden, der professionell und nicht selbst betroffen ist.“

Ich verstehe diesen Wunsch. Wirklich.


Aber ich lade dazu ein, ihn zu hinterfragen:

Es ist nicht entscheidend, ob eine Therapeutin selbst betroffen war
sondern, ob sie ihre Themen reflektiert, aufgearbeitet und integriert hat.

Ich bin regelmäßig in Supervision. Ich reflektiere kontinuierlich meine Arbeit. Ich bin präsent – nicht, weil ich „frei von allem“ bin, sondern weil ich mich meinen Prozessen gestellt habe.


Und genau das macht meine Begleitung heute so stabil und klar.



💬 Zitat zum Mitnehmen:

„Nicht das Erlebt-Haben ist entscheidend – sondern das Verarbeitet-Sein.“

Teil diesen Gedanken gern mit jemandem, der ihn gerade braucht.

🧠 Was viele Menschen sich fragen – und was ich dazu sagen möchte



❓ Ist eine Therapeutin ohne eigene Geschichte nicht sicherer?

Nein. Sicherheit entsteht nicht durch „Nicht-Erlebt-Haben“, sondern durch bewusste Bearbeitung, professionelle Haltung und emotionale Klarheit.


❓ Wie erkenne ich, ob eine Therapeutin gut mit ihrer Geschichte umgeht?

Daran, dass du dich nicht um sie kümmern musst.
Du spürst, dass sie da ist – ruhig, tragfähig, offen. Und dass du im Mittelpunkt stehst, nicht sie.


❓ Kann eigene Erfahrung die Therapie sogar vertiefen?

Ja. Denn sie schafft ein stilles, tiefes Verständnis für das, was unausgesprochen bleibt – und oft den größten Schmerz trägt.



Therapie mit Tiefe – bewusst gewählt


Ich bin nicht „unbetroffen“. Ich bin bewusst beteiligt.
Ich weiß, wie es sich anfühlt, wenn das Leben schwer ist. Ich weiß, wie zerbrechlich Hoffnung wirken kann – und wie kraftvoll sie tatsächlich ist.

Diese eigene Reise hat mich nicht zur „belasteten“ Therapeutin gemacht, sondern zur verbundenen, präsenten, echten Begleiterin.


Und genau das biete ich dir:
Einen Raum, in dem du sein darfst.
Ohne Rücksichtnahme. Ohne Scham. Ohne Angst, zu viel zu sein.



Was du bei mir findest


  • eine therapeutische Beziehung auf Augenhöhe
  • professionelle Begleitung mit gelebter Tiefe
  • Klarheit, Wärme und echtes Interesse an dir
  • zertifizierte EFT-Therapie für Einzelpersonen, Paare und Familien
  • Online-Sitzungen, zeitnah & flexibel buchbar
  • auf Wunsch: Einbindung christlicher Werte


👉 Dein nächster Schritt


Wenn du spürst, dass du dir so einen sicheren Raum wünschst, dann melde dich gern für ein unverbindliches Kennenlerngespräch bei mir.

📩 Hier kannst du direkt einen Termin anfragen


Oder erfahre mehr über mich und meinen Weg:
👉 Zu meiner Über-mich-Seite

Individual Therapy – Finding Strength and Healing

In the journey of life, we all experience moments of hardship and emotional pain. These challenges can leave us feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or disconnected from our true selves. My goal is to provide a safe, supportive space where you can explore your emotions, process your experiences, and build the tools needed for a fulfilling future.

Outcome: Through therapy, you may find renewed clarity, emotional resilience, and a deeper connection to your authentic self, allowing you to move forward with confidence and purpose.


Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) is a research-based approach designed to address the emotional underpinnings of personal struggles. Together, we work on understanding your core emotions, identifying negative patterns, and fostering a deeper connection with yourself and others.

If You Are Feeling...

Grief

Grief can leave you feeling overwhelmed by the weight of loss, disconnected from the world around you, or stuck in sadness. Whether you’ve experienced the death of a loved one, a major life change, or the end of a relationship, these emotions can feel isolating and endless.


Therapy can provide a space to honor your grief, process your emotions, and discover ways to rebuild meaning and hope.

Trauma

Trauma can manifest as feelings of being trapped by painful memories, hypervigilance, or a disrupted sense of self. It can make it difficult to feel safe or connected to others, leaving you feeling alone and misunderstood.


Therapy helps you process the trauma, rebuild a sense of safety, and regain control over your life.

Loss

The experience of loss, whether through a job, relationship, or significant life transition, can create feelings of uncertainty, anger, or overwhelm. You may feel lost as you try to rebuild your sense of identity and purpose.


Therapy supports you in navigating these feelings, finding stability, and embracing new opportunities.

Intergenerational Trauma

Intergenerational trauma can feel like carrying a weight that isn’t entirely your own. Patterns inherited from previous generations may leave you feeling burdened, conflicted, or disconnected from your sense of self.


Therapy can help uncover these patterns, heal from the past, and create a healthier emotional legacy for yourself and future generations.

Depression

Depression can feel like exhaustion, hopelessness, and isolation, making it difficult to connect with joy or purpose. Even daily tasks can feel insurmountable, leaving you stuck in cycles of sadness or numbness.


Therapy can help you regain energy, rediscover joy, and develop tools to manage depressive symptoms.

Single Parenting

Being a single parent can feel overwhelming, with the demands of caregiving, providing, and managing your own needs often leading to guilt, loneliness, or exhaustion. You may wonder how to balance it all without losing yourself.


Therapy provides support, self-care strategies, and tools to build stronger relationships with your children while prioritizing your well-being.

Unhappy Parenting

Parenting can sometimes feel unfulfilling or frustrating, leaving you disconnected from your family or questioning your role. You may carry guilt for wanting more for yourself while navigating daily challenges and emotional exhaustion.


Therapy can help you explore these feelings, reconnect with your family, and rediscover joy in your parenting journey.

If any of these resonate with you, therapy can provide a safe space to explore your emotions, process your experiences, and find a path toward healing, clarity, and growth.

Who I Work With

I provide specialized support for individuals facing:

  • Grief and Loss: Coping with the loss of a loved one, sudden or unexpected losses, the end of a relationship, or other significant life changes.
    Outcome: You may find ways to process your grief, honor your losses, and rebuild a life imbued with meaning and hope.
  • Depression, Including Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD): Helping individuals manage feelings of sadness, lethargy, and disconnection, especially during the darker months.
    Outcome: Therapy can help you regain energy, find joy in daily life, and develop strategies to manage mood fluctuations.
  • Intergenerational Trauma: Addressing the emotional impacts of trauma passed down through generations and fostering healing and resilience.
    Outcome: You can break cycles of pain, foster self-awareness, and create a healthier emotional legacy for yourself and future generations.
  • Guilt, Regret, and Shame: Exploring and working through overwhelming feelings that may hinder your ability to move forward.
    Outcome: Therapy can help transform guilt and shame into self-compassion and acceptance, freeing you to live more fully.
  • Single Parenting Challenges: Navigating the emotional complexities of single parenting, including guilt, stress, and balancing personal and familial needs.
    Outcome: You can develop stronger relationships with your children, build effective coping mechanisms, and foster a sense of balance and self-worth.
  • Major Life Transitions: Adjusting to significant changes such as job loss, moving to a new country, or shifting family dynamics.
    Outcome: Therapy provides tools to navigate change, embrace new opportunities, and establish stability during transitions.

Christian Counseling for Individuals

For those seeking a faith-based approach, I offer Christian counseling which integrates spiritual principles with therapeutic practices. This allows individuals to:

  • Align their emotional healing with their spiritual beliefs.
    Outcome: Find peace and direction by connecting faith with emotional well-being.
  • Find solace and strength through faith during challenging times.
    Outcome: Draw on spiritual resources to navigate difficulties with hope and purpose.
  • Explore personal growth within the context of their spiritual journey.
    Outcome: Experience deeper spiritual growth and alignment with personal values.
Christian counseling at LivelyFuture provides a unique opportunity to connect emotional well-being with spiritual growth, offering a holistic path to healing.

How I Work with Individuals

In our sessions, I provide a compassionate, non-judgmental environment where you can:

  • Explore Your Emotions: Gain insight into your feelings and their impact on your thoughts and behaviors.
    Outcome: Greater emotional clarity and awareness, empowering you to make informed, intentional choices.
  • Identify and Shift Negative Patterns: Recognize patterns that may be holding you back and learn strategies to replace them with healthier ways of coping.
    Outcome: You may feel liberated from unhelpful habits and better equipped to build meaningful relationships and experiences.
  • Build Resilience: Develop tools to navigate challenges, process difficult emotions, and foster emotional strength.
    Outcome: A stronger ability to face life's ups and downs with confidence and grace.
  • Enhance Self-Connection: Deepen your understanding of yourself and strengthen your sense of self-worth.
    Outcome: A more profound relationship with yourself, characterized by self-acceptance and authenticity.

Individual Therapy for Personal Growth and Resilience

Life’s challenges can sometimes feel overwhelming, leaving little room to focus on yourself or build the connections you truly desire. Balancing personal needs, work, relationships, and emotional well-being can create strain that impacts every area of life.

In individual therapy, I focus on:

  • Strengthening Emotional Resilience: Helping you navigate feelings of stress, loneliness, or grief, and uncovering your inner resources to face life's transitions with confidence.
  • Reclaiming Balance: Supporting you in managing the demands of your roles and responsibilities, while carving out space to prioritize your own needs.
  • Addressing Unresolved Wounds: Gently exploring past experiences and patterns that may be influencing your current challenges, so you can begin to heal and move forward.
  • Improving Self-Connection: Guiding you to connect with your authentic self, rediscovering your values, strengths, and aspirations.
  • Enhancing Relationships: Equipping you with tools to express your needs and emotions more effectively, fostering healthier, more fulfilling relationships.

My Approach: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)

Emotionally Focused Therapy is at the heart of my practice. This structured, research-supported approach focuses on helping couples:

  • Understand their emotional patterns and cycles of interaction.
  • Strengthen emotional safety and connection.
  • Heal past wounds and foster a deeper sense of trust.
  • Communicate more effectively to navigate challenges and strengthen their bond.

Through EFT, I guide couples to recognize and shift negative interaction cycles and replace them with positive, emotionally attuned communication. Whether you’re addressing specific conflicts, healing from past traumas, or proactively strengthening your relationship, this process is tailored to meet your unique needs.

How I Am Different as an EFT Therapist

As a certified Emotionally Focused Therapist (EFT), my approach centers on understanding and strengthening the emotional connections that shape your life. Unlike traditional methods that focus solely on problem-solving or behavior change, EFT delves into the deeper emotional patterns that influence how you relate to yourself and others.

Here’s what sets my approach apart:

  • Emotion-Centered: Together, we’ll uncover and explore the emotions driving your experiences, creating opportunities for growth and understanding.
  • Attachment-Focused: By addressing your attachment needs, I help you build a secure emotional foundation that supports your resilience and well-being.
  • Healing Past Wounds: Our work emphasizes not only overcoming current challenges but also healing unresolved emotional hurts and traumas that may still impact your life.
  • Strengthening Self-Compassion: Rather than focusing only on external changes, we work on nurturing a lasting bond with yourself, fostering greater confidence and emotional security.

Individual Therapy for Single Moms

Being a single mom comes with a unique set of challenges that can feel both overwhelming and isolating. Balancing the demands of parenting, work, and personal well-being often leaves little time to focus on yourself. Guilt, shame, and self-doubt can creep in, making it even harder to navigate the emotional toll of doing it all on your own.


In individual therapy for single moms, I create a compassionate space where you can explore your emotions, find your inner strength, and build strategies to thrive. Together, we address:

  • Easing Guilt and Shame: Many single moms carry the weight of guilt—feeling like they’re not doing enough for their children, or shame for needing help. We work to release these heavy emotions and replace them with self-compassion and confidence.
  • Managing Overwhelm: From juggling work deadlines to attending school events, the constant pressure can feel unrelenting. Therapy helps you find balance, prioritize effectively, and build routines that work for you and your family.
  • Building Emotional Resilience: Navigating feelings of loneliness, stress, or grief is part of many single moms’ journeys. Together, we explore these emotions and develop tools to face challenges with strength and grace.
  • Rediscovering Your Identity: It's common for single moms to feel they've lost a sense of self amidst the demands of caregiving. Therapy offers a space to reconnect with who you are, your values, and your dreams beyond the role of being a mother.
  • Strengthening Connections: Whether it's fostering a deeper bond with your children or improving relationships with others, we focus on equipping you with communication tools to express your needs and build meaningful connections.
  • Setting Boundaries: The desire to give endlessly to your children or meet societal expectations can make saying "no" difficult. Therapy helps you set boundaries without guilt, creating space for your needs while still showing up for your kids.

Building Support Networks: Identifying ways to create or strengthen external support systems, such as extended family, friends, or community resources.

Your Journey Matters

Single motherhood doesn’t have to mean facing everything alone. Individual therapy offers a sanctuary to share your worries, release the weight of shame, and create a path toward balance and fulfillment. By focusing on your emotional well-being, you not only nurture yourself but also build a stronger foundation for your family.

Individual Therapy for Parents

Building a Stronger Foundation for You and Your Children

As parents, we often carry the weight of wanting the best for our children. But amidst the daily stresses, worries, and emotional struggles, it can be easy to overlook our own needs. What we may not realize is that our well-being as parents has a profound impact on the emotional health of our children. When we take the time to care for ourselves, we become more relaxed, present, and supportive—creating a nurturing environment where our kids can truly thrive.


In individual therapy for parents, we focus on:

  • Creating Emotional Balance: Therapy helps you process your own stress, worries, and fears, so you can approach parenting with greater calm and clarity. When you feel grounded, your children experience you as more secure and less reactive.
  • Reducing Emotional Intensity: Children are deeply attuned to our emotions. By learning to regulate your feelings, you model emotional resilience for your kids and create a home that feels safer and less overwhelming.
  • Healing Personal Wounds: Unresolved past experiences can sometimes influence how we parent. Therapy offers a space to heal, so you can respond to your children with empathy instead of being triggered by old patterns.
  • Setting a Positive Example: Children learn by observing us. By prioritizing your mental health and showing compassion for yourself, you teach them the importance of self-care, resilience, and emotional well-being.
  • Strengthening Connections: Whether it's fostering a deeper bond with your children or improving relationships with others, we focus on equipping you with communication tools to express your needs and build meaningful connections.
  • Building Resilience for the Whole Family: When you feel supported and empowered, it creates a ripple effect that strengthens the entire family dynamic. Therapy for you is an investment in a healthier, happier future for your children.

Building Support Networks: Identifying ways to create or strengthen external support systems, such as extended family, friends, or community resources.

The Ripple Effect of Therapy

Your children look to you for guidance, comfort, and stability. By focusing on your emotional health, you become a healthier, more present parent who can better support their growth. The changes you make for yourself will directly or indirectly benefit your children, creating a home filled with connection, safety, and love.


Taking the first step toward caring for yourself is not selfish—it’s one of the greatest gifts you can give your kids.

Supporting You in Unique Life Situations

Every journey is unique, and I tailor our work together to meet your specific needs and goals. Whether you’re navigating the complexities of a major life transition, coping with loss, or working through long-standing emotional challenges, I’m here to support you. Together, we’ll uncover your strengths, address areas for healing, and create a path toward greater clarity, balance, and fulfillment.

Resources for Your Journey

At the LivelyFuture Academy, you’ll find a variety of free and paid resources designed to support your personal growth, including:

  • Blog posts on topics like managing SAD, coping with grief, and navigating major life transitions.
    Outcome: Gain insights and practical advice to support your personal journey.
  • Videos offering practical strategies for emotional resilience and personal development.
    Outcome: Access helpful tools to strengthen your emotional well-being.
  • Downloadable guides and exercises to help you deepen your self-awareness and build emotional strength.
    Outcome: Empower yourself with actionable resources to complement your therapy.

At the LivelyFuture Academy, you’ll find a variety of free and paid resources designed to support not only couples but especially for individuals on their journey of personal growth. Explore tools, guides, and courses to deepen your understanding, foster connection, and empower your future.


These resources are designed to complement our sessions, giving you tools to continue building a strong, supportive family dynamic at home.

How We Work Together

  1. 1
    Tailored Sessions: Individual therapy sessions are customized to address your specific concerns, with a typical session lasting 60 minutes. This allows us to explore your experiences and challenges deeply.
    Outcome: Achieve meaningful progress through personalized guidance and support.
  2. 2
    Free Check-In Call: Before beginning therapy, I offer a complimentary call to discuss your needs, answer questions, and ensure we’re a good fit.
    Outcome: Feel assured about starting therapy with clarity about the process and goals.
  3. 3
    Safe and Inclusive Environment: I strive to create a welcoming space where you feel supported, understood, and valued.
    Outcome: Experience a sense of safety and belonging, essential for growth and healing.

What You Can Expect

  • Clarity: Gain deeper insights into your emotions and life experiences.
    Outcome: Feel empowered to understand and navigate your emotions effectively.
  • Resilience: Build tools to navigate life’s challenges with confidence.
    Outcome: Approach difficulties with a renewed sense of strength and determination.
  • Healing: Process past hurts and create a path toward emotional well-being.
    Outcome: Experience relief and renewal as you move beyond pain and toward growth.
  • Empowerment: Develop a stronger connection with yourself and a renewed sense of purpose.
    Outcome: Feel motivated to pursue a life aligned with your values and aspirations.

Ready to Take the Next Step?

If you’re ready to invest in yourself and create a LivelyFuture, I invite you to schedule a free consultation call. Whether you’re working through grief, managing depression, or seeking personal growth, this initial call is an opportunity to explore how I can support you.


Don’t wait to begin your journey toward healing and self-discovery. Schedule your free consultation today and take the first step toward the future you deserve.


Don’t wait to begin your journey toward a more balanced and fulfilled life. Schedule your free consultation today and take the first step toward becoming the version of yourself you’ve always envisioned.


Together, we can uncover the inner strength and clarity you need to create the life you truly deserve.