Licensed psychotherapist · 10+ years · EMDR · Lifespan Integration · Certified HeartMath trainer · English, German, Hebrew · Online, worldwide
Licensed psychotherapist · 10+ years · EMDR · Lifespan Integration · Certified HeartMath trainer · English, German, Hebrew · Online, worldwide
In person, Vienna
A psychotherapy group for high-functioning adults who manage well on the outside and struggle privately with anxiety, shame or closeness.
Book a first sessionJoining the group starts with an individual session, by video or in person.
Some difficulties are hard to reach in individual therapy for a structural reason: they only appear in the presence of other people.
If your pattern is managing how you come across, anticipating what others need, going quiet when something matters, or feeling exposed the moment you're seen clearly — you can describe all of that accurately to me in a one-to-one session without any of it actually happening in the room.
In a group it happens. That's the point. What you do with people becomes observable while you're doing it, which makes it available to work with rather than only to report on.
Being understood by one person is useful. Being understood by seven, having assumed you wouldn't be, tends to change something else entirely.
English speakers in Vienna who function well and don't look like they need help — and who suspect that the effort of maintaining that is itself the problem.
It works alongside individual therapy, whether with me or someone else, and several members do both.
Particularly useful for
Before joining, we have a session to work out whether the group is right for you and whether this is the right moment. Group therapy asks something of a person, and starting at the wrong time is worse than starting later.
A small, closed group, in English, in Vienna. Same people each week — which is what makes it possible to say difficult things, because you're not starting again with strangers.
No exercises and no topic set in advance. Members talk about what's present, and I work analytically with what happens between people as it happens. That's group analysis, and it's what my training at the ÖAGG is in.
Confidentiality is the group's first rule. What is said in the room stays in the room, and that holds for every member, not only for me. Group therapy doesn't work without it and nobody joins without agreeing to it.
The group meets in person in Vienna. Unlike the rest of my practice it isn't offered online — presence in a shared room is doing much of the work.
It's also the most accessible thing I offer. If cost is the barrier to therapy, this is usually the answer.
At a glance
Yes — this one. It's a weekly 90-minute psychotherapy group conducted entirely in English, in Vienna, for adults who function well externally and struggle privately with anxiety, shame or closeness.
Not before you're ready. People often spend early sessions mostly listening, and that's a legitimate way to participate. What tends to happen is that the wish to say something arrives before the fear of saying it disappears — and that moment is usually worth the wait.
Yes, and many members do. They reach different things: individual work goes deeper into your own history, group work shows you what you do with people. If your individual therapist is someone else, that's fine too.
Tell me before you join and we'll work out whether it's manageable. Usually it isn't, and I'd place you differently rather than compromise the group for both of you.
Longer than they expect. Group work builds slowly and most of its value accumulates after the point where it starts to feel familiar. There's no fixed term, and leaving is something we'd discuss in the group rather than by email.
Yes, and it's the group's first rule. What is said in the room stays in the room, and every member agrees to that before joining.
That's often a good sign. We'd start with an individual session to work out whether the group is right for you, and whether now is the right time.
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