In short Online therapy in English in Malmö: individual and couples sessions over secure video, scheduled across time zones. Psychodynamic depth work with a US-trained therapist. You pay directly, so nothing runs through local insurance or health records. Fees and fit are covered in a free 15-minute call.

The work

The work I do is relational and focused on pattern. I don't run intake checklists. I don't assign homework. I pay attention to what happens in the session. The moments when something shifts or goes flat. The pattern that keeps showing up underneath the problem. Most people already know their own story. They still keep landing in the same place. What's missing is someone watching in real time, someone who can name what you cannot see from inside it. More on how I work, and how I work with couples.

The character underneath

The presenting problem might be low mood or anxiety. Or a relationship gone flat. Under it, the work is about character. Malmö gives that a particular shape. This is a city of in-between lives. People live on one side of the Öresund and work on the other. They keep a foot in two countries. Two systems. Two languages. They can be surrounded by other internationals here. And still feel unplaced inside all that movement. That in-betweenness can harden into a way of being. Always slightly provisional. Never fully landing. Commitments kept light because the ground has never felt settled underfoot. Swedish reserve and the lagom habit of not making a fuss keep the surface smooth. None of this gets said out loud. Depth work is interested in what sits under the provisional stance. The older pattern it quietly repeats. The history that taught a person not to count on belonging anywhere. In practice it can show up as a quiet reluctance to invest, in the city or in the people in it, a hedging that guards against the next goodbye and ends up guaranteeing the very loneliness it was meant to prevent.

Continuity across the bridge and beyond

Malmö's working life is unusually mobile. The bridge makes a daily commute to Copenhagen ordinary, the Medicon Valley life-science cluster runs across the strait so careers straddle two countries, and people arrive, move across, and move on more than they do in a settled city. Online work fits that life closely. It does not assume you are on one particular side of the Öresund, and it does not end when you cross it or leave the region altogether. If a role takes you to Copenhagen, elsewhere in Sweden, or another country, the therapy continues without a break, in the same language, with the history already in the room. For people whose lives move across borders as a matter of routine, that steadiness counts for a great deal.

Why people in Malmö work with me

Three reasons. Availability, first: English-language depth work is scarce and booked out here, and I have room. Fit, second: my whole practice is people living outside their home country, so being an international in Malmö needs no explaining, and depth work in fluent English is the default. Privacy, third: I am outside the Swedish system entirely, with nothing on any public record. For public or in-person care, I will point you toward it.

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.

In shortOnline psychodynamic therapy in English for people in Malmö. Fully private. Paid directly. No waitlist. Nothing on a public-system record.

The Malmö patterns

The city is remaking itself and draws a mixed crowd. The professional in tech, gaming, or startups. The academic at the university. The commuter who lives in Malmö and works in Copenhagen across the bridge. The migrant or international finding their footing. This is one of Sweden's most diverse cities. The partner who relocated and lost their own bearings in the move. The capable person whose week looks full and whose inner life has gone quiet. The work makes room for what the busy surface does not show, in fluent English.

Therapy in Malmö: a young Öresund city, thin on English depth work

Sweden's public system gatekeeps hard and works in Swedish. Care starts at your vårdcentral, where a doctor assesses you and decides whether to write a referral (remiss) for psychotherapy. In this region the referred course is KBT, sometimes PDT or IPT, capped since 2025 at 16 sessions and aimed at a named condition such as mild to moderate depression, anxiety, or stress. You pay a small fee per visit, around 200 kronor, up to the annual high-cost ceiling, after which a frikort covers the rest. The care guarantee promises a specialist visit within ninety days, but it governs the wait, not the depth, and couples work sits outside the public scheme entirely. Private individual sessions run roughly 1,000 to 1,500 kronor, more for couples, and English-speaking depth therapists are scarce outside Stockholm. Malmö sits at the Swedish end of the Öresund region, young and international, with the same Swedish-language public system and the same thin English-language supply. This is private depth work in English, paid directly, outside the public system.

Questions people ask from Malmö

Will the public system cover therapy with you?
No. Public care runs through your vårdcentral, the waits can be long, the treatment is usually short-term CBT in Swedish, and couples work sits mostly outside it. I work privately and directly, in English, outside the public system, for people who want sustained depth work without the wait.
Do I need a referral to start?
No. Private work needs no referral and has no waitlist beyond my own availability, so we can usually begin within days.
Are you a licensed psychologist in Sweden?
No. The protected titles legitimerad psykolog and legitimerad psykoterapeut are issued by Socialstyrelsen, which I do not hold. I am US-trained (MA, Counseling) and work privately online, outside the Swedish registers. For a licensed Swedish clinician, public care, or medication, I will point you toward it.
I live in Malmö but work in Copenhagen, or I am moving across the bridge. Does that affect the therapy?
No. Because the work is online, it does not depend on which side of the Öresund you are on, and it does not stop if you move across the bridge or on to another country. The same sessions continue in the same language. For people living the cross-border life that is normal here, that continuity is often part of why online depth work fits better than anything tied to a single national system.

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

The full reading list is on the approach page.

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