Psychological counselling for aid and development workers

Procedure & costs

If you are interested in a counselling session, you can contact me here in order arrange an initial online meeting via skype or offline in Berlin. The first meeting takes 30 minutes and is free of charge. Ideally, we then meet in person before your mission starts. During the mission, online counselling sessions via skype take place upon your request. You decide if we focus on job-related issues (systemic job coaching) or on private matters (crisis counselling) or both. In any case, you decide if, when and how many sessions will be arranged. All conversations are subject to strict confidentiality. A counselling session takes 50 minutes and costs 80 Euro.

Goals & methods

You determine the issues raised in the counselling sessions. In addition to that, I see my role as a craftswoman who is to provide you with useful tools to improve your self-perception and self-regulation.

Those could contain:

Questions based on the systemic principle gaining insight by broadening the perspective

Psychological coping assessments

Techniques to structuring inner processes

Work with inner team, inner child

Visualisation techniques

Body-related exercises for reassurance and slowdown

Meditation techniques

Techniques to release anxieties

Techniques to deal with conflict, e.g. perspective-taking, realisation of perceptions, needs, feelings and emotions, articulation of pleads according to Rosenberg’s nonviolent communication