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Buddhist Psychotherapy

Buddhist Psychotherapy – Clarity, Presence & Psychological Depth

I combine systemic and hypnosystemic psychotherapy with the clarity of Buddhist psychology.
This approach is for people who want to understand what moves them internally – cognitively, emotionally and existentially.
Buddhist psychotherapy is not a religious service and not a form of spiritual instruction.
It is a clear, experience-based way of working with suffering, patterns, emotions and identity.

What Buddhist Psychotherapy Is Really About

Buddhist psychology understands suffering as something that arises when we cling to inner constructions:
self-images, expectations, old wounds or ideas about how life “should“ be.

In therapy, this means:

  • Recognising automatic thinking and behavioural patterns
  • Working with emotions, bodily signals and inner parts
  • Examining identifications (e.g. “This is just who I am”, “I have to…”)
  • Understanding control patterns, fear and ambivalence
  • Developing clarity and inner stability

It is not about “letting go because one should,”
but to understanding what keeps us bound – and what makes change possible.

Who This Approach Can Be Especially Helpful For

Buddhist psychotherapy is well suited for people who:

  • find themselves in existential or meaning-related crises
  • struggle with anxiety, tension or persistent rumination
  • wonder “Who am I when so much falls away?”
  • feel they must keep functioning while something different happens inside
  • repeatedly fall into shame, self-doubt or self-criticism
  • want to understand relationship patterns that burden them
  • follow a spiritual or contemplative practice and encounter its limits
  • have been in therapy but sense: “I’m not getting any further.”

My Approach – Integrative, Experience-Based and Transparent

I work at the intersection of contemporary psychotherapy and contemplative practice.
This brings analytical clarity together with personal depth.

  • Systemic Therapy
    Understanding patterns, roles, relationships and dynamics.
  • Hypnosystemic Approaches
    Working with inner parts, bodily sensations and internal imagery.
  • Couples Therapy
    Attachment, resonance and the logic of partnership.
  • Buddhist Psychology
    Insights into suffering, identity, mind, emotion and awareness –
    not as doctrine, but as precise psychological tools.
  • Personal Contemplative Experience
    Six years of monastic life, including a traditional three-year retreat.
    Since 2001, a daily meditation practice has been part of my life –
    not as theory, but as a grounded and steady form of inner work.
    For many years, I have also guided individuals and groups in meditation.

    This experience shapes my therapeutic stance rather than functioning as a technique:
    clear, present and closely attuned to the immediacy of experience.

Mindfulness & Compassion – As an Expression of Maturity

In this work, mindfulness and compassion are not applied as techniques.
They emerge when people begin to see their experience without distortion,
stay in contact with pain and integrate personal crises rather than avoiding them..

Compassion here is not a method, but an expression of maturity:
the ability to stay in contact with one’s own suffering without fleeing from it –
and from there to meet others with clarity and humanity.

My Path Toward Buddhist Psychotherapy

Buddhism has been part of my life since 2001 – not as a concept, but as lived practice.

In 2002, I took vows at the monastery “Kundrol Ling” and prepared for a traditional three-year retreat.
From 2005 to 2008 I lived in the retreat full time.
After returning, I continued my professional training in psychotherapy and worked for several years in psychosomatic settings.
Most recently, I completed additional training in psycho-oncology, which further deepened my engagement with existential issues and emotional strain.

For me, Buddhist psychotherapy is not a theoretical model, but a path I have walked and continue to walk myself – one that I now offer in a professionally grounded therapeutic form.

You can find further details about my professional background in my profile.

Buddhist Psychotherapy – Also Available Online

I offer sessions both in person and online (GDPR-compliant).
Online appointments make this approach accessible where it is not available locally.
The work remains personal, clear and reliable.

Initial Consultation / Contact

If this approach speaks to you, you can book an initial consultation online or in person.
Together we can explore whether this path is suitable for your situation.

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