Online trauma therapy.
Trauma-informed support, wherever you are.

Trauma is rarely one dramatic event. Often it is about what was missing over a long period, or about situations where protection, attunement and reliability simply were not available.

Experience continues to act in places we barely notice: in the nervous system, in emotional responses, in relationships, in self-perception, in how we handle boundaries, trust and stress – and in coping and protective strategies that once made complete sense.

Recognising yourself in these descriptions does not mean a trauma-related disorder is present. It means, first of all, that your system adapted to something.

Substances or repeated behaviours can quietly do a job: reduce tension, make thoughts quieter, dampen feeling, make emptiness bearable, settle restlessness, activate, switch off, or produce a brief sense of control and relief.

This is not the claim that addiction is caused by trauma. It is the observation that problematic use often becomes far more understandable when we read it as an attempt at self-soothing rather than a question of character.

So the therapeutic question is not only how a behaviour might stop, but what function it serves – and what other forms of self-regulation could gradually develop. Where addiction is diagnosed or pronounced, specialised addiction treatment is the right setting.

You work from a familiar environment, wherever you are, with continuity that survives travel or living outside Berlin. We work with the physical, emotional and relational responses arising in the session, and what emerges can be integrated directly into the everyday life where it needs to hold.

Online does not mean informal. The therapeutic frame stays reliable: regular appointments, 100 minutes, from three sessions onwards, further sessions as needed. Meeting in person in Berlin-Mitte remains possible where that suits you better.

Online work is not inherently better than working in person. Not every situation suits an online setting; we look at fit individually, and the free initial conversation exists partly for that question.

One quiet note on limits: this setting is not suitable for acute psychiatric crisis or for situations requiring intensive psychiatric, medical or inpatient care. Diagnosed severe personality disorders fall outside this offer, and where addiction is severe or diagnosed, specialised treatment is the appropriate route.