Welcome
Do you live your life or is life living you?
Amid the abundance of family and professional expectations, we often lose touch with our own needs, desires and goals. Without a well-calibrated compass, one can quickly lose confidence in oneself and the world around. Especially when crises or grief shake life into a supposedly "fullfilled before" and an "empty after".
As a psychologist and leadership-coach, I have spent years dealing with the question of how people emerge from traumatic live events and grow into self-determined authors of their own lives.
About me
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As a son of Iranian immigrants, I grew up in Berlin. Accordingly, I learned very early to balance between two cultures. After graduating from high school, I moved to England, where I first studied 'Human Nutrition' and then Psychology.
After completing my master's degree, I returned to Berlin, where, in addition to my systemic therapy training, I set up a social enterprise in the field of democracy education that is now established nationwide. My goal was to develop new concepts for action in the field of civicl education for socially disadvantaged groups. During this time, I acquired expertise in pedagogical work with challenging children and young people and learned very practically how to take responsibility for personnel, how to set up and run a company.
After seven years as CEO in the education sector, I dedicated myself to my psychotherapeutic work. I have been working in my own private practice and as an online therapist since 2018.
I am also the academic director of a youth welfare organization specializing in traumatized children, young people and families.
- The wound ist the place, where the light enters you' -
(Rumi)
Psychotherapy and Coaching
I often compare my work as a psychotherapist to that of a travel companion who has been allowed to make numerous expeditions through the meanderings of the human soul. In accordance with your needs, we explore inner conflicts of the past, aims of the future and the unfolding events in the here and now.
In my work, I draw methods and techniques from various schools such as:
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Systemic individual, couple and family therapy
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Solution-focused brief therapy
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Clinical Hypnotherapy
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Transcultural Psychotherapy
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Mindfulness-based psychotherapy
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Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
From my understanding, biological, psychological and social processes create our states experiences and feelings. They therefore deserve holistic consideration in my work.
Universitiy Degrees
MSc Psychology
BSc Human Nutrition
Training as Psychotherapist
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Systems Therapist (DGSF)
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Clinical Hypnotherapy i.A. (Maria Schnell - Milton Erickson Institute)
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Ego State Therapy i.A. (Kai Fritzsche - Milton Erickson Institute)
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Hypnosystemic Therapy (Prof. Gunther Schmidt)
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Master parenting coach according to the "New Authority" (Prof. Haim Omer)
Memberships
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German Society for Systemic Therapy, Counseling and Family Therapy
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Milton Erickson Society for Clinical Hypnosis
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British Psychological Association
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British Nutrition Society
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Advisory Board Member of the Alliance for Democracy and Tolerance (2017-2018)
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Scholarship holder of the Social Impact Labs Berlin
Awards
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Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 for Entrepreneurial Diversity Berlin
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Award from the Robert Bosch Foundation for outstanding social commitment and inclusion in the network of "The Responsible"
Languages
I offer psychotherapy, coaching and organizational consulting in
German, English and Farsi.