On this page you will find important information about psychotherapy, psychological counseling and mental health courses as well as the therapy contract. Please read this information carefully.
Stand: December 19, 2024
A therapeutic session typically lasts 50 minutes. Please arrive on time for your appointment. If you are running late, the session may not be extended for organizational reasons. Please notify me by SMS if you are delayed. If you arrive early, please wait until the scheduled appointment time, as there is usually another client before you.
According to § 203 para. 1 no. 2 of the German Criminal Code (StGB) and the professional code for alternative practitioners, I am bound by legal confidentiality. This means I am obligated to keep silent about all facts entrusted to me or that have become known to me in the course of my professional activities, unless the law provides exceptions or a threatened legal interest prevails. I will only provide or obtain information about you to third parties with your express written consent. Relatives also receive no information about psychotherapy - unless you expressly wish it. If important reasons prevent release from confidentiality, these will be respected after clarification with me. As a client, you commit to confidentiality regarding other clients whom you may encounter - e.g., through waiting room contact, courses, groups, etc.
Your personal data such as name, postal address, email address, phone number or date of birth are collected and used exclusively in accordance with applicable data protection law. Please take note of the information on the homepage at https://includere-psychotherapie.de/datenschutzerklaerung-2/.
For self-paying clients, where naturally no application process is required, a somatic assessment by an authorized physician must be completed before starting regular psychotherapy. Reimbursements or subsidies directly through cost carriers such as health insurance companies, employers' liability insurance associations or supplementary insurance must be applied for independently by clients. I will provide necessary documents and support for applications. However, please understand that I do not bill directly with third parties, but you pay the costs for services in the practice directly to me.
If you cannot attend an appointment, please cancel it at least 48 working hours in advance. A written notification by SMS, email, or cancellation via Doctolib is sufficient. If cancellation occurs on shorter notice, the appointment can no longer be assigned to other clients. In this case, I am forced for business reasons to charge you a no-show fee equal to the booked appointment. The above applies to group appointments. One-time emergencies are excluded.
You can find the prices for different sessions and consultations on the website https://includere-psychotherapie.de/preise/ You will receive an invoice after each service rendered and can then transfer the amount. If you wish to pay in cash, please let me know in advance and have the exact amount ready.
I work goal-oriented and resource-focused, oriented to current scientific knowledge. The consideration of causes and problems is also part of this, as well as appreciative handling of your own situation. My work is based on trusting and transparent cooperation, with any discrimination excluded. You are accepted as you are. I support you in understanding what causes and maintains current burdens and problems, and help you change unfavorable behavioral and thought patterns so that your psychological well-being improves. You already carry all necessary resources within you, and in the safe framework of psychotherapy (as well as courses or counseling) you learn to activate them. Psychotherapy includes diagnostics (e.g., through questionnaires to fill out), the treatments themselves, and any agreed-upon tasks to support the process. Active participation is a prerequisite for successful psychotherapy.
Like any other medical treatment, psychotherapy also involves risks and side effects. The changes in behavior, thinking and experience aimed for in psychotherapy and counseling can lead to changes in partnership, family, circle of friends or professional environment. Even if these changes were mostly intended and agreed upon at the beginning of therapy, their effects are not always fully predictable and can be undesirable. It is also possible that temporary symptom worsening or new psychological symptoms may occur during therapy. These can arise, for example, from increased engagement with the problem and are sometimes - not always - an unavoidable step on the way to achieving therapy goals. It can also happen - despite generally good healing prognoses for psychotherapy - that treatment shows no sufficient effect even after longer therapy duration. This can have various causes. The mentioned risks and side effects can be influenced by your knowledge of them. If such undesirable effects occur, it is important to discuss them with me in therapy so they can be processed and caught by positive therapy experiences.
After the free initial consultation, we both decide whether therapy or other treatment should be started. Before we begin working together, it is important that you obtain a consultation report and bring it to treatment in my practice. This is followed by the detailed initial interview, which includes anamnesis and initial analyses as well as an outlook on methods and procedures. In the course of the first sessions, I create the diagnosis and give you an outlook on the first treatment period.
Regular discussion of therapeutic procedures with colleagues (intervision) and supervisors is an important measure for quality assurance in therapy. I do not name patients. The intervisors and supervisors are bound by confidentiality just like me and are obligated to maintain absolute silence about everything they learn in the course of their intervision/supervision activities.
Most correspondence outside of therapy takes place via email, SMS (not WhatsApp), via Doctolib or by mail. Telephone availability at fixed times is not possible, but I will call you back if you leave me a message. Inquiries outside my office hours will only be answered at the beginning of the next office hours. Personal data is transmitted in contact and exchange, and there is a risk of unauthorized access by third parties. If you do not want certain communication channels, please let me know at the beginning of therapy. GDPR is implemented in my practice and there is a binding data protection concept.