The work
The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run intake checklists or assign homework between sessions; I pay attention to what happens in the session, the moments when something shifts or goes flat, and the recurring pattern underneath the presenting problem. Most people already know the story of their situation and keep landing in the same place. What's missing is someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. More on how I work, and how I work with couples.
Therapy in Luxembourg City: a global workforce, a narrow English supply
Luxembourg is multilingual on paper and thin on English-language depth therapy in practice. Public reimbursement through the CNS is limited and still developing, much local care works in French, German, or Luxembourgish, and couples work is private. Private sessions run roughly 90 to 175 euros, more for couples, and English-speaking depth therapists are scarce against one of the most international populations in the world. Luxembourg City concentrates EU institutions and a large funds-and-finance industry into a small, intensely international city, and English-language depth therapy has not kept pace. This is private depth work in English, paid directly, outside the local system.
The Luxembourg City patterns
The city draws a distinct population. The official at the Court of Justice, the EIB, the Parliament secretariat, or another EU body, posted for years far from home. The professional in funds, banking, or the Big Four, working long hours in a transient, high-turnover world. The accompanying partner in a place where almost everyone is from somewhere else and few stay long enough for roots. The high-functioning person whose career is on track and whose inner life has flattened. Discretion matters here, in a small place where professional circles overlap. The work is depth-oriented, in fluent English, and entirely private.
Why people in Luxembourg City work with me
Three reasons. Privacy, first: in a small city where institutional and professional worlds overlap, I am outside the local system entirely, with no file and nothing on any record. Fit, second: my whole practice is people living outside their home country, so the texture of an EU posting or a finance role in Luxembourg needs no translating, and the work is depth-oriented. Availability, third: English-language depth work is scarce here, and I have room, online, across time zones. For reimbursed or in-person care, I will point you toward it.
Questions people ask from Luxembourg City
What people bring to online therapy
The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.
How it works
Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a free 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.
Selected research on this approach
My work is psychodynamic and depth-oriented. These are some of the studies on the effectiveness of that kind of therapy. They describe research on the method in general, and are not claims about any individual outcome.
- Shedler, J. (2010). The efficacy of psychodynamic psychotherapy. American Psychologist, 65(2), 98-109. doi:10.1037/a0018378
- Steinert, C., Munder, T., Rabung, S., Hoyer, J., & Leichsenring, F. (2017). Psychodynamic therapy: as efficacious as other empirically supported treatments? A meta-analysis testing equivalence of outcomes. American Journal of Psychiatry, 174(10), 943-953. PMID 28541091
- Leichsenring, F., Abbass, A., Heim, N., Keefe, J. R., Kisely, S., Luyten, P., Rabung, S., & Steinert, C. (2023). The status of psychodynamic psychotherapy as an empirically supported treatment for common mental disorders: an umbrella review based on updated criteria. World Psychiatry, 22(2), 286-304. PMC10168167