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Dr. Lauren Deimling Johns
Psychologist
Verified Verified
3098 Köniz
Emotion complements reason in ways which can be confusing, especially considering the social animal we are as humans: living with remarkable sensitivity to one another. Emotion guides us toward knowing our unmet needs. In therapy, only you can be the expert of your inner world's path. It is an honor to accompany you while maintaining focus on your goals, limiting distraction and avoidance behaviors, and fostering opportunities for appropriate self advocacy and self compassion.
Emotion complements reason in ways which can be confusing, especially considering the social animal we are as humans: living with remarkable sensitivity to one another. Emotion guides us toward knowing our unmet needs. In therapy, only you can be the expert of your inner world's path. It is an honor to accompany you while maintaining focus on your goals, limiting distraction and avoidance behaviors, and fostering opportunities for appropriate self advocacy and self compassion.
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Verified Verified
3000 Bern
With extensive experience working with emerging adults, members of marginalized communities, diverse newcomers, and coaching executives, I offer you a trained ear. Client issues include feeling stuck, mood issues, mind on overdrive, and managing transitions. Let us find ways to not only survive but also thrive in all areas of your life (school, career, community, family and so on). Clients can expect to develop acceptance, change behaviours, and use strengths to improve well-being.
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3000 Bern
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Natalia Braun
MSc
Verified Verified
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Verified Verified
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Verified Verified
3000 Bern
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Verified Verified
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Verified Verified
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Martina Leavy
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Verified Verified
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I am SGfB registered intergrative psychological counsellor. I take into account you and your personal circumstances, and use elements of different approaches (e.g., CBT and Existential therapy) to help you explore your needs and set realistic goals to achieve them. I work with adults and with couples struggling with anxiety, personality disorders, grief, low self-esteem, self-harm, trauma, relationship issues, sexual challenges, substance use disorders, and eating disorders. Being an expatriate for the last 25 years, I specialise in working with anglophone expatriates, taking into consideration their cultural background.
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Rodrigo C T Lopes
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Verified Verified
3011 Bern
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Kasia Kopanska
PhD
Verified Verified
3000 Bern
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Was it curiosity that brought you here? Or perhaps pain, confusion, fear? All of You are welcome here. Years ago, life took me on a journey to find connection and authenticity. It was a gift of being human. There, I learned to embrace the light and dark aspects of myself. I now guide you to explore your body, heart-centered relationships, and authentic expression through touch, breathwork, sound, movement, compassionate inquiry, herbalism, and psychedelic consciousness. I guided hundreds of people in sessions and groups to connect to their deep truth and purpose.
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Roberta Riolo
Counsellor
Verified Verified
Online Only
In a non-clinical setting I work to facilitate change processes, strengthening confidence, encouraging clear Client need-driven actions. I offer Counseling in Italian, English and Spanish. Through a constructive and collaborative process you will have the opportunity to carefully focus on your aim and get those changes you want for yourself, within your family or your couple.
In a non-clinical setting I work to facilitate change processes, strengthening confidence, encouraging clear Client need-driven actions. I offer Counseling in Italian, English and Spanish. Through a constructive and collaborative process you will have the opportunity to carefully focus on your aim and get those changes you want for yourself, within your family or your couple.
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Jeeyoun Kim
Psychotherapist, MA, ASP
Verified Verified
3012 Bern
Waitlist for new clients
At different times in life we may encounter both external and internal difficulties and the psyche talks to us in various ways: sometimes through symptoms of insomnia or depression, anxiety or recurring thoughts, feelings of emptiness and despair - sometimes through inner questions of meaning, an urge to know more and wish to find our place. We may be confronted with personal dilemmas that seem unlikely to be solved, and feel trapped or imprisoned. Jungian psychotherapy is a journey to find the roots of such difficulties, to better understand the meaning underlying our suffering and to help integrate these insights into our life.
At different times in life we may encounter both external and internal difficulties and the psyche talks to us in various ways: sometimes through symptoms of insomnia or depression, anxiety or recurring thoughts, feelings of emptiness and despair - sometimes through inner questions of meaning, an urge to know more and wish to find our place. We may be confronted with personal dilemmas that seem unlikely to be solved, and feel trapped or imprisoned. Jungian psychotherapy is a journey to find the roots of such difficulties, to better understand the meaning underlying our suffering and to help integrate these insights into our life.
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Fatma Lassoued
Psychologist, MSc, FSP
Verified Verified
Online Only
I accompany you with cultural sensitivity in your personal development process, using an approach that respects your individuality and cultural background. In English, French or Arabic, it's important that the client can express themselves in their native language to explore their needs.
I accompany you with cultural sensitivity in your personal development process, using an approach that respects your individuality and cultural background. In English, French or Arabic, it's important that the client can express themselves in their native language to explore their needs.
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Laura L. Stryker
Psychotherapist, MA, ASP
Verified Verified
3000 Bern
Waitlist for new clients
You've tried everything to be happy and yet you don't feel happy. There are certain negative repetitive patterns that leave you feeling hopeless. Together we will explore the unconscious processes that are blocking you. Hello, I'm Laura and a Psychotherapist in Transactional Analysis (CTA), working with individuals and couples. I trained in London and apply TA, Imago Couples, Polyvagel, and Mindfulness to my work. I became a therapist after experiencing my own personal therapy as life changing. I wish to help others in the same way. Invest in yourself and together we will make the life changes you long for.
You've tried everything to be happy and yet you don't feel happy. There are certain negative repetitive patterns that leave you feeling hopeless. Together we will explore the unconscious processes that are blocking you. Hello, I'm Laura and a Psychotherapist in Transactional Analysis (CTA), working with individuals and couples. I trained in London and apply TA, Imago Couples, Polyvagel, and Mindfulness to my work. I became a therapist after experiencing my own personal therapy as life changing. I wish to help others in the same way. Invest in yourself and together we will make the life changes you long for.
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