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Confidential one-to-one sessions for humanitarian professionals, UN staff, and expats working through burnout, trauma, anxiety, or the quieter weight of a demanding life. Sessions in English, French, and Dutch — 50 minutes, at your pace.
Individual counselling is a confidential, one-to-one space where you can slow down, make sense of what you are carrying, and move toward something different.
It is not advice. It is not a checklist of coping strategies. It is not someone telling you what to do, or reassuring you that everything will be fine.
It is a steady, compassionate space — held by a trained professional — where what you feel, think, fear, and hope for can be spoken aloud without judgement. Where what has been hard to sit with can finally be sat with. Where things that have felt tangled can slowly, at your pace, begin to untangle.
For many of the people I work with, it is the first space in their lives that is genuinely theirs.
Individual counselling with me is especially suited to professionals working in — or recovering from — high-demand, high-exposure environments:
Individual therapy is also appropriate if you are outside these professional contexts but drawn to the way I work — trauma-informed, integrative, and paced.
Processing the weight of a recent deployment, the cumulative cost of many, or the question of whether to stay in the sector
Navigating burnout, moral injury, or the dissonance between mandate and reality
Carrying stories that are difficult to put down
Working through compassion fatigue, disillusionment, or career transitions
Finding that life abroad is more isolating, disorienting, or emotionally complex than expected
Of people in these sectors — who carry their own quieter version of the same weight
Each client arrives with their own story. That said, the themes I most often work with include:
The kind that does not lift with a holiday. The kind that has become a background hum you’ve learned to ignore
The cost of caring deeply about other people’s suffering as part of your work — and continuing to do so for years.
Recent, long-held, single-event, or accumulated. Trauma-informed care means working at the pace your nervous system can actually integrate.
The racing thoughts, the disrupted sleep, the body that will not settle. Somatic tools help, and we use them.
The specific wound of witnessing or being part of actions that violate your deepest sense of right and wrong. Not talked about enough, especially in humanitarian work.
Bereavement, loss of health, loss of identity, loss of the sector or mission you believed in. All of these deserve real space.
Questions that surface after years of giving to others — about who you are, what you want, and what comes next.
Support that is neuro-affirming, not pathologising — for people who have always experienced the world more intensely than others seem to.
Not seeing your reason here? Many of the most important things people bring to therapy don’t fit neatly into a category. If you are unsure whether what you are experiencing is “enough” to seek support — please reach out anyway. That question itself is often the answer.
The first session is a conversation. You do not need to arrive with a polished explanation of what is happening, or the right vocabulary for it. We talk about:
There is no pressure to disclose more than you are ready to. You set the pace. I will ask questions, reflect, and help you find the threads worth following — but I will never push you past where your nervous system can go.
As we build a working rhythm, sessions become a combination of:
Therapy is not a linear process. Some weeks will feel like forward movement. Others will feel quiet, or heavy, or like treading water. All of it is the work.
Online sessions are held over secure, confidential video. For most concerns, research consistently shows that online therapy is as clinically effective as in-person work — and for many of my clients, it is actually the better fit.
Online therapy is especially useful if you are:
The therapeutic relationship — the single most evidence-backed predictor of positive outcomes in therapy — translates well online when both people commit to the space.
Session fees can be adjusted based on individual financial circumstances. If the standard rate is a barrier to starting, please reach out — a conversation about pricing is welcome and confidential.
Swiss LAMal basic health insurance does not currently reimburse counselling sessions with non-psychiatrist counsellors. However, several international and employer-based providers often do cover this kind of support, including:
Please check directly with your provider before booking, and I can supply any documentation needed for reimbursement.
My approach is trauma-informed, integrative, and paced to your nervous system — not a protocol applied to you, but a practice shaped around you.
Whatever you bring, we work with it at a pace that honours your system rather than overrides it. No forced disclosure. No pushing through. No re-traumatisation.
A great deal of what we carry lives in the body long before we find words for it. I integrate somatic therapy and nervous system regulation throughout the work.
For the questions that surface after years in demanding work — about meaning, identity, and what comes next — there is real space here.
Sessions are a space to process and also a space to build tools: for regulation, boundaries, decision-making, and more sustainable ways of living.
Yes. Many clients switch between English, French, or Dutch depending on what they are describing. Some things are easier to say in one language than another, and that is entirely welcome.
No. You can book directly without a medical referral. If you are working with a psychiatrist or GP for medication or coordinated care, I am happy to liaise with them with your consent.
Please reach out. Sliding-scale fees are available for clients whose circumstances make the standard rate difficult. The conversation is confidential and without pressure.
Psychiatrists are medical doctors who can prescribe medication. Psychologists typically focus on clinical diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of mental health conditions. Counsellors and therapists (like myself) support you through talk-based and somatic approaches for life challenges, trauma, stress, and personal growth. If you are unsure which you need, reach out — I am happy to help you find the right fit, whether that is with me or elsewhere.
There is no fixed answer. Some clients come for a specific focused issue and feel significantly lighter within 6–10 sessions. Others choose longer-term work to move through deeper patterns, trauma, or life transitions. We will check in regularly about what is useful and what you need. You are never committed beyond the next session.
Yes. Everything you share is confidential and protected by my professional ethical obligations as a member of the Swiss Counselling Association (SGfB). The narrow limits of confidentiality — which apply equally to any qualified therapist — will be explained clearly at the start of our work together.
Possibly. The most consistent finding in decades of therapy research is that the quality of the relationship between therapist and client predicts outcomes more than any specific method. That is why the free intro call exists — to let you sense whether the relationship feels workable before committing to anything. If you have had unhelpful experiences before, that is useful information to bring into our first conversation.
A safe space for reflection, healing, and growth. Offering personalised therapy and counselling in Geneva and online to help you navigate stress, trauma, and life’s challenges with clarity and care.
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