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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 part of a normal life. 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 left something that no training can provide: an intensive engagement with one’s own psychological patterns — and with it an understanding of how deeply such patterns operate, and how they can change.
Training and Qualifications
- Systemic Therapist (SIE – Systemisches Institut Euregio)
- Hypnotherapist (Master of Hypnotherapy, ABH)
- 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)
Personal
I was born in 1975 and live with my wife and our two children in Eschweiler. Music and theatre have been part of my life for a long time — not by chance, as both involve expression, embodiment and shifts in perspective, which is also what I work with therapeutically. The sea draws me in for its vastness, openness and strength. And 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.
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