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Welcome to my blog! I love writing about my work, sharing insights and tips from my online counselling work as well as writing about the reality of digital nomad life.
Online Counselling
The first session part 2 – the (technical) preparation
In my last post, I gave you an overview of what to expect from your first counselling session, the initial consultation for psychological online counselling with me. Today I would like to give you a few more tips and ideas for the technical and organisational...
Online counselling: The first session
Most of my clients report that they were a little bit nervous before their first online counselling session. They didn’t know what to expect from online counselling, wondered how they could tell me what was on their mind, and what questions I might ask them. To...
ACT Exercise Hands and Thoughts
We all know moments when we are so stuck in our thoughts that we no longer feel capable of participating in everyday life. Next time this happens to you, I would like to invite you to try the “Hands & Thoughts” exercise, a technique from Acceptance and Commitment...
Digital Nomads
Third Culture Kids and Cross-Cultural Kids: Who are they?
If you have been following my journey here on my blog or on Facebook or Instagram, you probably know that I work, live and dream in multiple languages. I don't have a home, I travel the world as a modern-day nomad, changing city, country and culture every few weeks or...
Mental Health of Digital Nomads & the 7in7 Conference
In October last year I attended a conference (7in7) for the first time since I turned my life 180 degrees and became a digital nomad with an online counselling practice. I also co-presented a workshop there about the mental health of digital nomads. In my former life...
How I as a digital nomad maintain social contacts
As a long-distance traveller and digital nomad, maintaining social contacts can be a challenge. For most people, whether travellers or sedentary, it can be difficult to make new friends. Even before I left Germany completely, it was already the case that I changed my...
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The myth of positive thinking
In one way or another, you have probably heard it before. Why can't you be more positive? All that negative thinking is sure to bring negativity to your life. If you think about good things, good things will come your way. These are all expressions of what we can call...
Impostor syndrome
So you have it all: you've gotten the job you wanted, you were given a promotion, you managed to secure a spot, you are about to publish your book... So why do you feel like you don't belong there? The experience of feeling like a fraud or someone who has just...
The body neutrality movement: a middle between two extremes?
How do you feel about yourself and especially about your body? Do you love your body? Do you feel like you should love your body? The body positivity movement has gained a lot of traction in recent years. Body positivity involved feeling good about yourself...
Online Therapists’ Book Club Reading List
I love reading, and I love networking with other online therapists from all over the world. What better way to combine those things than to create an online therapists book club? For over a year now, we have been meeting every month for a 90-minute group call to...
How vulnerability will help you live a meaningful life
Who hasn't seen this TedTalk? Or heard about Brené Brown? If you are one of the lucky few discovering Brené and her work for the first time today, lucky you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCvmsMzlF7o If you have been a long-time fan or feel like it might be time...
Packing my backpack as an online psychologist
My recent blog post about minimalism from the point of view of a digital nomad and online psychologist prompted a number of questions. Today I’d like to try to answer two of them. 1. What do you own as a digital nomad and what do you pack in your backpack as...
