Anxiety & Depression
When your thoughts close in.
When fear sets the tone of your days, or a leaden heaviness dulls the joy in them, it can feel as though you are locked inside your own head. Your thoughts go round and round and will not stop — or nothing moves at all. I am there alongside you, not so that you simply endure this state, but so that you can understand it. Together we look for where your worries come from, and for ways back to your own strength and to feeling alive.
“Fear is excitement without the breath.”
Reading symptoms as signposts.
We want to be rid of uncomfortable feelings like fear or low spirits as quickly as we can. But the harder we fight them or push them away, the stronger they tend to grow in the background. In therapy I invite you to turn that around: we treat the symptom not as an enemy but as an important signal. What is asking to be heard? What might the fear be trying to protect you from? Once we stop working against ourselves, what is stuck often loosens more easily than we expect.
Listening to what the soul is saying.
In Gestalt therapy we do not treat fear or low mood as a “fault” that simply has to be removed. More often they are signals from the soul: old needs have gone unmet, or we have lost contact with ourselves. In a protected setting, I invite you to make sense of those signals:
Feeling the body: Fear often sits in the neck or in the stomach. We learn to notice those physical signals instead of numbing them.
Understanding patterns: We look at which old beliefs (“I have to function”) are still putting you under pressure today.
Strengthening resources: We turn our attention to what carries you. Where are the sources of strength that may have been buried?
In the here and now: Instead of circling around worries about the future, we practise staying present and steady in this moment.
From the head into the body.
Fear and brooding in particular tend to keep us trapped in the head. Talking alone is then sometimes not enough. So we work through experience: we give the “inner critic” a seat on the empty chair, we breathe into the tightness, or we use creative materials to make the unsayable visible. Feelings that are lived through rather than pushed away can change — and that clears the way for something new.
What can change for you:
Inner quiet: Bringing the thoughts to rest and being able to enjoy stillness again.
Being able to act: Getting past the sense of powerlessness and becoming active again.
Self-acceptance: Being kinder to yourself, even when things are not going perfectly.
Vitality: The grey cloud lifting, and joy and lightness coming back.
Your next step.
When the soul is hurting, help should not have to wait. As a private practice I can often offer an appointment soon, without the months of waiting at practices that bill the statutory insurers. Sessions are held in English. In a free initial consultation of about 20 minutes we get to know each other and look together at whether my approach is right for you.
This has clear advantages for you:
