Positive Psychology
When I recently read an article in Psychology Today about the newest branch of psychology I was excited: Finally! Finally, I thought, we can leave the problem-focused approach behind! As…
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Who’s gen z?
Who’s gen z? My kids – 18 and 15 – often drop that gen z simply does it that way and that boomers can’t understand. There are boomer jokes and…
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Trauma Counselling
As if the current pandemic were not enough of a bummer, it is often the tiny trigger for uncovering buried traumas. During the past few months I found that it…
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Panic attack and What to do
Panic attack – what to do? This is probably the question we have to help with most often at the moment. My client came this morning only after a long…
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Overthinking
Have you lately come across the expression overthinking? What happened to the old-fashioned expression “brooding”? So, overthinking it is nowadays. I, too, am very familiar with the phenomenon with one…
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A Colorful Mix of Opinions
And suddenly I stood right in the middle of a rally against Corona measures. Between vaccination opponents and hippies, members of the “Identitarian Movement”, people who have lost their jobs…
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Psssst! Don’t say a thing!
“I didn’t know what I was doing wrong…”, and to this day he doesn’t know. Together with the couple sitting in front of me, I’m going to look for clues.…
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Life needs a Blueprint
I’ve been giving a seminar course at the university for a few weeks now. The title: Time&Self Management. The course is well attended, the students curious and attentive. After all,…
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Trick or Treat? Or “Dark Traits”?
Determine your Dark Factor Ethically, morally, and socially questionable behavior is part of everyday life. Psychologists use the umbrella term “dark traits” to subsume personality traits that are linked to…
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