Blog
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
ACT Exercise – Life Areas
Today, I would like to introduce you to an exercise that I use in my work as an online psychologist that encourages us to look at our lives and examine the different “life areas” that are important to us. The exercise comes from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy...
Mental Health in a Pandemic
Who remembers hitting the 6-month pandemic wall? And how does it compare to how you’re feeling now that we’ve passed the one year mark? I came across this Twitter thread several months ago when we were around that crucial 6-month mark:...
Top 3 issues addressed in my online psychological practice
Each client comes to me with their own story - a colourful mixture of individual experiences, concerns, and wishes. But as unique as the individual experiences may be, certain issues come up again and again. So today I’d like to present to you the top 3 issues I...
Digital Nomads
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...
The downsides of being a Digital Nomad
I love being a digital nomad (even if I there is lots of weird stuff going on in the world of digital nomads). But the freedom to work from anywhere in the world, and travel whenever you want comes at a price. Which is something that is still not talked enough about,...
More Articles
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 been...
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 for...
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...
