Breathing space

In therapy, we speak of psycho-trauma (Greek: injury or wound) when a person has reacted to a perhaps even life-threatening event with an emergency response, but has not been able to process or integrate this in the situation and has left „traces“. This event can then have an impact on our well-being or cause emotional wounds, even years after it happened. These manifest themselves in behavioral patterns, anxiety, depression, flashbacks, sleep disorders and even psychosomatic illnesses. 

In individual sessions, we talk about personal inner suffering and the symptoms that accompany it. In a protected therapeutic setting, we can gently address what has been repressed, blockages and split-off emotions are released and our brain can reclassify, process and integrate things again. 

Together we look for our own resources that can be supportive in rebalancing the „inner system“. This work focuses on solution-oriented approaches, resource work, working with the inner child, bodywork, strengthening social skills, self-care, self-determination and regaining the ability to act.

Every person reacts individually to a traumatic event and so every healing process can look very different. In my work as a trauma therapist, I incorporate the following methods into my work: Breath therapy, hypnotherapy, body psychotherapy and the practice of mindfulness. 

Having worked for many years in a psychosomatic clinic specializing in addiction, I am well aware of the dynamics of addiction and its comorbid concomitant diseases. There is usually more to an addiction than initially meets the eye, so dealing with a client's individual history is an essential step towards healing and self-determination. The foundations for the development of addiction patterns are usually laid early in childhood or through formative relationship experiences. Many biographies show that addictive behavior has been exemplified or that needs and boundaries have been repeatedly disregarded. Addictive substances are therefore often an attempt to self-medicate in order to satisfy this emotional hunger or to escape into another world.

Through conscious breathing or conscious somatic experience in body psychotherapy, you can now approach your own unfulfilled needs in a benevolent way. You learn to understand and classify the past or try out how you can relate to your needs and boundaries. New paths can open up and you can find out what really nourishes you. New positive experiences help old patterns to begin to dissolve so that you can make your own decisions more freely in the future. Sometimes it is a rediscovery of your own „coherence“.

Especially in today's world, where everything has become faster and more digital, we are faced with new challenges. Our own nervous system becomes overstimulated and we often exhaust our own resources without realizing it. We all develop our own strategies for dealing with the demands that come at us every day. Perhaps you know the feeling of starting off in the morning as if you were running a marathon and then rushing through your appointments all day in flight-fight mode. 

It is scientifically proven that burnout always develops on the basis of stress and leads to exhaustion on 4 levels: Physical, Emotional, Mental and Social. Humans are self-regulating organisms and we have a natural  force within us that always strives for balance and health (homoestasis). In the case of burnout, you could say that this self-regulation fails.

In a breathing and body psychotherapy session, we look together at what your current stressors are and how you can deal with yourself and your resources differently. There are many valuable approaches here from the method of mindfulness and we look at what options you have. We invite the body to feel what it is like to allow yourself to soften and let go and we look at what constantly drives you and makes you struggle. Working with your inner child or inner parts can help you to take more compassionate care of yourself in the future and take control of your life.

Through self-esteem and gentleness in dealing with your boundaries and needs, your resources can be strengthened again and a new self-confidence develops with every step. The conscious breath is always at your side and old „stories“ can be integrated and healed. You can enjoy your life with energy and ease.