Dipl. Pol. Ulla Stoeppler
My path has many facets.
Therapeutic skill does not grow out of books alone. It grows out of meeting life itself. My work rests on a thorough four-year training in Gestalt therapy, but just as much on two decades of working life in business and on my own history. I am licensed as a Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie — a state-issued German licence to practise psychotherapy under the Heilpraktikergesetz — and not as a psychologische Psychotherapeutin, which is a separate German qualification. I do not meet you as a blank page, but as someone who knows how upheaval feels and how much strength there is in beginning again.
“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
From outward image to inner world.
One thread runs through my life: the wish to understand structures and to see people at their core. As a political scientist I learned to look at the system. As a brand consultant, to look at identity. As a Gestalt therapist I bring both together with therapeutic empathy.
Political scientist
Seeing the person in context.
My academic background — a Dipl. Pol., the German Diploma in Political Science — taught me the long analytical view: how do systems act on us? How does our environment shape us? That is where the ground was laid for never seeing a person in isolation, but always as part of their surroundings. It is the understanding my therapeutic work rests on today.
Concept & brand consultancy
The search for essence & identity.
Two decades of brand development taught me that behind every strategy lies a search for identity. Each new task brought me closer to the same question: where is the true core? Over those years my interest moved away from the strategic “image” and towards real human motivation — and towards the question of who we really are.
Gestalt therapist
Through intuition to what matters.
As a Gestalt therapist I work where identity is felt directly: in contact with you. With my intuition and the tools of Gestalt therapy, I help you make the invisible visible — your needs, your patterns, your resources — and shape the next steps that fit.
Here & now
Room for your story.
Get to know me in a free initial consultation. Together we work in the here and now on what is moving you: your needs, your relationships, your own development. My practice in Hamburg gives you a quiet, protected setting for that work, and sessions are held in English.
My path has brought me here — where do you want yours to go?
If you have a sense that my experience and the way I work might suit you, I would be glad to hear from you. Let us find out whether the chemistry is right. The first step is often the most important one. Write or call — I look forward to meeting you.
