We help you move toward the change and personal growth you’re aiming for. Our approach requires commitment and a genuine willingness to work on yourself. It can be challenging at times, but through the process, you learn to take responsibility for your own life. You’ll discover how small adjustments in your lifestyle, habits, thoughts, behavior, and emotions can strengthen you. These steps not only help you feel better and healthier but also contribute to the well-being of those around you. Take the first step today toward a healthier and happier life.
What do we treat — and what not?
We treat almost all mental health issues, except the most severe cases that require an acute or highly specialized setting.
We do treat:
- Anxiety, panic, obsessive-compulsive, and mood disorders, including suicidality, except for bipolar or cyclothymic disorders
- Stress-related complaints such as acute and post-traumatic stress, prolonged or traumatic grief, including those resulting from bullying, early childhood trauma, intergenerational trauma, violence, physical or emotional abuse or neglect, sexual abuse, coercive control, discrimination, antisemitism, racism, war experiences, medical treatments, natural disasters, or accidents
- Neurodiversity (ADHD, autism, autism spectrum disorder, tic disorder, other developmental disorders)
- Eating disorders
- Personality disorders, including self-harm
- Mild addiction problems that co-occur with one of the above issues
- Giftedness, with or without accompanying mental health problems; we can usually diagnose and treat this effectively when needed
We do not treat:
- Acute psychosis or mania
- Bipolar or cyclothymic disorder (if discovered during intake or treatment, we will refer you)
- Primary addiction problems
- Severe personality disorders requiring forensic or clinical care
- Severe eating disorders requiring inpatient treatment
- Moderate to severe intellectual disabilities (IQ below 60)
For these situations, we refer to forensic and specialist mental healthcare institutions, disability care organizations, or hospitals that can provide the appropriate setting and treatment.
Understanding your situation
To determine how we can best help you, we start by listening carefully and asking many questions. Three team members participate in this initial phase — they will also guide your diagnostics and treatment. This means you only need to tell your story once.
We then discuss your case as a team, drawing on our collective experience, knowledge, and expertise. Based on that, we create a treatment plan together with you during the first consultation. This plan outlines:
- The issues you experience
- Your therapy goals
- Any relevant legal framework
- The diagnostic assessments we plan to conduct
- The treatment approaches we recommend
Diagnostic assessments may include psychological testing (e.g., intelligence or neuropsychological tests), observations, questionnaires, interviews about your biography, parenthood, psychiatric symptoms, or personality, as well as developmental history interviews or conversations with family members or close contacts (heteroanamnesis).
The results of these assessments are discussed with you in a second consultation, after which the treatment begins.
Treatment and approach
Our treatment options include:
- Psychoeducation
- Various forms of psychotherapy (supportive, insight-oriented, trauma-focused, self-image therapy)
- Habit formation and emotion regulation techniques
- Social skills training
- Medication management (pharmacotherapy)
- Non-verbal therapy / creative therapy
- Family, relationship, or systemic therapy
Psychoeducation, psychotherapy, and creative therapy can take place individually or in groups. All care is tailor-made.
We work closely with the social domain, GPs/referrers, paramedics, medical specialists, current or previous treatment providers, spiritual counselors, and the safety and forensic mental health networks, whenever necessary. We also value the involvement of family members and, where relevant, experts by experience.
If a crisis intervention, medication, or safety intervention is needed first, we will provide that.
If treatment needs to begin alongside diagnostics, we do so.
If diagnostics can only be conducted during the treatment process, we apply process diagnostics.
Every six months, two psychology or pedagogy master’s students complete their final internships with us. They are supervised by a GZ-psychologist and/or psychotherapist and are an integral part of our team and approach. Like all team members, they are bound by medical confidentiality.
