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About Me
Sven Collip
Most people who come to me bring something they don’t fully understand themselves — a reaction that feels too strong, a pattern that keeps repeating, an exhaustion with no clear cause. My first impulse is not to see this as a disorder. But to ask: what has this been doing — and what is it preventing now?
My training — systemic therapy, hypnotherapy in the tradition of Milton Erickson, psycho-oncology — has given me different languages for the same thing:
that difficult experiences are not signs of weakness, but something deeply human.
And that people have considerably more room to move than they can see when they’re in a difficult phase.
Several years in a Buddhist monastery shaped my work in ways no training could. It wasn’t about learning methods, but about coming face to face with one’s own psychological patterns over an extended period — without distraction, without escape.
That experience continues to influence how I understand change, crisis and inner processes.
Training and Qualifications
- Systemic Therapist (SIE – Systemisches Institut Euregio)
- Hypnotherapist (Master of Hypnotherapy, ABH – American Board of Hypnotherapy)
- Psycho-oncologist (DKG – German Cancer Society)
- Feldenkrais® Practitioner
- Heilpraktiker (Psychotherapy) — licensed practitioner of psychotherapy under German law
Advanced training in Systemic Psychodrama (ifs Essen).
Further training with Dr. Gunther Schmidt, Dr. Dan Short (Milton Erickson Institute, Phoenix) and Elmar Woelm, PhD.
Experience and Areas of Work
In private practice in Eschweiler since 2014. In the early years alongside this, creative-therapeutic work in psychotraumatology and psychosomatic medicine, at Gezeitenhaus Schloss Eichholz (Wesseling) and the Privatklinik Eschweiler. Over several years I also ran prevention workshops in primary schools on sexual violence prevention and information events for teachers and parents (in cooperation with theaterpädagogische werkstatt gGmbH)
A Few Personal Notes
The question of how Buddhist thinking actually becomes effective in everyday life — not as a concept, but as an attitude — is one I’m still working on.
Music and theatre have been part of my life for a long time. Both involve expression, embodiment and shifts in perspective — which is also what I work with therapeutically. Born in 1975, I live with my wife and our two children in Eschweiler. The sea draws me in, again and again — for its vastness, openness and strength.
