My Key Topics
ADHD
Finding focus, directing energy.
Restlessness, distractibility, planning stress, and impulsivity can dominate everyday life. In CBT we strengthen executive functions, establish clear routines, and improve emotion regulation and self-management – involving a partner or work environment if desired.
Addictions
Breaking cycles, reclaiming freedom.
Loss of control, strong cravings, concealment, and distressing consequences indicate addiction. CBT identifies triggers, trains alternatives to consumption, works with stimulus control and relapse prevention – motivating, structured, and linked to medical treatment if needed.
Anxiety Disorders
Developing inner security..
Persistent worry, panic attacks, and avoidance narrow the scope of life. Through psychoeducation, exposure exercises, and cognitive strategies, we build courage, capacity for action, and self-confidence step by step – supplemented by breathing and relaxation techniques.
Depression
Strengthening motivation, rediscovering meaning.
Low mood, withdrawal, sleep and concentration problems, and rumination are typical. CBT activates in a practical way, structures the day, reduces rumination cycles, and focuses on resources and values – coordinated with medical treatment if needed.
Burnout and Stress
Creating balance, renewing strength.
Chronic tension, sleep problems, cynicism, and exhaustion despite breaks are warning signs. CBT clarifies stress patterns, sets priorities, strengthens boundaries and recovery, reduces perfectionism, and realistically restructures work and everyday life.
OCD (Thoughts and Actions)
Letting go of control, gaining freedom.
Intrusive thoughts and rituals bring brief relief but cost time and quality of life. The core of CBT for OCD is ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention): suspending rituals, tolerating tension, testing catastrophic thinking – until self-determined action becomes possible again.
Personality Disorders
Building stability, shaping relationships.
Long-lasting patterns in feeling, thinking, and relating can lead to instability, inner pressure, or conflict. CBT works on emotion and impulse regulation, core beliefs (schemas), and interpersonal skills – supplemented by elements from, for example, schema therapy or DBT.
Adjustment Problems
Managing change, finding grounding.
After separation, illness, relocation, or a change of job, feelings of overwhelm, sleep disorders, and worry often arise. CBT stabilises, activates resources, trains problem-solving, and gradually builds a solid new everyday structure.
Relationship Conflicts
Understanding, connecting, growing together.
Recurring conflict spirals, communication breakdowns, or closeness-distance problems strain the relationship. CBT makes patterns visible, establishes fair communication rules, clarifies needs, and tests concrete everyday experiments – in couple or individual settings as desired.
Problematic Internet Use (PIU)
The internet is part of everyday life – yet for some people, their usage reaches a level they experience as distressing. We speak of problematic internet use when social media, online gaming or constant availability increasingly take over, and other areas of life such as work, relationships or sleep fall by the wayside. Typical signs include feeling unable to stop, preoccupation with the next time online, and restlessness or irritability when going without – often the internet serves to regulate stress, boredom or loneliness. In cognitive behavioural therapy, we look together at the function your usage serves for you and how a more self-determined, balanced relationship with digital media can develop. If you recognise this theme in yourself, I am glad to support you.
Being a Man
Understanding oneself as a man – beyond role models.
Many men today find themselves between traditional expectations and new ideals: strong, but sensitive; successful, but mindful; independent, but committed. In therapy, the aim is to consciously reflect on these areas of tension – to recognise old patterns and develop new ways of dealing with emotions, relationships, performance, and self-image.
We work on inner clarity, healthy boundaries, authentic presence, and a sense of self guided not by external standards but by inner coherence.