Online Individual Therapy in Stockholm.

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.

English here is fine; belonging is the problem

Almost everyone in Stockholm speaks excellent English, so this is not really a language story. It is a belonging story. Swedish public mental-health care has its waits, and private depth work in English with someone who understands the outsider experience is a smaller pool than the city's polish suggests. But the deeper issue most internationals run into is not access to a therapist. It is access to anyone: a society that is famously kind, famously reserved, and famously hard to enter.

Working with me is private and online, in your first language, with no Swedish record and no wait.

What Stockholm brings to therapy

Stockholm runs on a world-class tech and startup scene, Spotify and Klarna and the unicorn pipeline, plus finance and the institutions, and it imports international talent that the local social fabric does not easily absorb. The recurring presentation is the foreigner who did everything right, learned some Swedish, joined the gym and the after-works, and three years in still has no close local friends, because Swedish friendship forms early and slowly and rarely opens to newcomers. Add the long, dark winters and their genuine effect on mood, the reserve that reads as rejection even when it is not meant that way, and the lagom flatness, and you get capable, well-paid people who are quietly, structurally lonely.

The arrangement

I am a US-trained psychodynamic therapist working online and privately: no Swedish license, no public-system involvement, no diagnosis on any record. You pay directly, in any currency. Stockholm evenings pair with my US mornings. When what you need is prescribing, assessment, or covered care, the Swedish system handles that, and I will say so directly.

Questions people ask from Stockholm

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.