Online psychodynamic therapy in English for Munich's international professionals and families: private, direct, and available now.
The work
The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.
Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.
I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.
Finding English therapy in Munich
Munich shares Germany's structural problem and adds its own twist. The Kassensitz shortage and the months-long waits for covered therapy apply here as everywhere (the mechanics are laid out on my Germany page), but Munich's private market is tighter and pricier than Berlin's, sitting at the very top of German private fees, and its English-speaking bench is thinner relative to demand. This is a corporate capital, not a freelancer's city: BMW, Siemens, Allianz, Munich Re, and the consulting firms import thousands of international professionals and their families, and the therapy infrastructure for them in English has never caught up. People here are often startled to discover that the practical choice is a long wait, a German-language slot, or a screen.
The Munich pattern
What Munich clients bring has a consistent shape. The city is orderly, prosperous, safe, and socially slow to open; Bavarian warmth is real but operates on a multi-year onboarding schedule. Expat families in Bogenhausen and the international-school orbit build pleasant, partial lives: colleagues but not confidants, activities but not intimacy. The corporate men carry the German workplace's particular pressure, formal, hierarchical, allergic to visible struggle, and convert it into overwork or evening drinking with the discipline they apply to everything else. Their partners, often the ones who gave up a career for the posting, do the harder year invisibly. Add the Föhn, the long gray stretches, and the sense that everyone else seems contentedly sorted, and the result is a population that looks enviable on paper and arrives in my practice quietly starving for one honest hour a week.
The arrangement, plainly
I am a US-trained psychodynamic therapist working online and privately. No German license, no Kasse billing, no diagnosis entering any record, and a fee in line with Munich's private therapists. Sessions land in the Munich evening, which is my morning. The work suits people whose problem is not a crisis but a pattern: the marriage that went administrative, the success that stopped meaning anything, the version of yourself that got left at the border. For prescribing or covered care, Germany's system is the right address, and when that is true, you will hear it from me directly.
Questions people ask from Munich
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.