My practice

I treat people with various psychological disorders at my practice: primarily depression, anxiety and stress-related disorders. My services are based on psychoendocrinology and behavioral therapy, and I apply other helpful elements from various therapy approaches depending on the case and specific disorder, such as depth psychology, schema therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) or systemic therapy. Emotive-evocative techniques like humor (Ellis) also form part of my approach, if I consider them suitable in the respective context.

I specialize in three areas at my practice. The first area is the treatment of psychological symptoms caused by disorders involving stress hormones, anxiety and depression. The second specialization is dedicated to the similar symptoms but caused by changes in sex hormones. Depression during menopause would be a classic example of this. My third specialty is couples therapy and sex therapy based on a systemic therapy approach. When you have what seem to be insurmountable problems in your relationship, you can have me counsel you to help you find each other again and live happily together again.

You will see from my website that thanks to my international research activities I can offer clients my expertise in psychoneuroendocrinology, a field that is still in its infancy in many countries. I was the first scientist who taught psychoneuroendocinology courses to medical students at Heidelberg University. My international and national colleagues and I have been working for years on entrenching this essentially important field in our healthcare system. You can find out more about my international scientific activities in the Research section of this website. Correspondingly, I am in private practice here in Germany, where I treat German and international self-paying patients without restrictions in my field. The treatment of disorders pertaining to the behavioral therapy context is restituted by health insurances.