Trauma and PTSD Therapists in Berlin, Germany

If unresolved or overwhelming memories impact your wellbeing, I provide a compassionate, non-judgmental space to process these experiences and support emotional integration and healing.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are unfortunately way more common than many people think. A strong link has been found my many studies between ACEs and physical and mental health problems in later life. Traumatic experiences can also take place in adolescence and adulthood. For some, the impact is greatly distressing and life-limiting, such as in the cases of having post-traumatic-stress disorder. Many of the people I have come to work with have lived through often multiple adversities and traumatic experiences, throughout their lives. I offer a confidential space where we can think together about the way such experiences have affected you and the parts of you that can change and develop in order to integrate and move on from past traumas.

Trauma is life changing, and working through trauma can take a lifetime. Drama therapy online offers a creative, distanced and gentle option for beginning to explore trauma, and to separate the yourself from your trauma.

In many cases, but not all, a traumatic imprint leaves a following stress disorder, which sit in one's life until another force meets it and can change it. Developmental trauma from early childhood and also recent shock trauma, both can be hard to regulate on one's own. Nowadays trauma therapy offers many different ways and views to work through the body. The very good news is that you do not need to dive back into the trauma or its story but we can release the psychosomatic disorders from the soma of the body. Over the past 25 years I have thoroughly studied and also met some of the leading heads of trauma therapy. I am not certified for a professional hat but work in accordance with the insights of SE, Developmental Trauma, NARM, Poly Vagal Theory and IFS. My husband Sudeva is certified, if you prefer to work with someone who actually wears the professional hat, look at his profile here on Therapy Tribe.

My relational approach is especially suited for folks with relational trauma—trauma that resulted from ongoing abuse, neglect, or unstable and unhealthy relationships with caregivers, often early in life. Some folks experience active PTSD symptoms; others notice that they're stuck on repeat in their relationships, whether feeling trapped in cycles of abusive or neglectful relationships or unable to function well in healthy partnerships that feel foreign to them. We are hurt in relationship—but we also heal in relationship! My relational approach to therapy might be what helps you finally get "un-stuck" from those old patterns and move toward feeling safer and more stable and connected, both with others and with yourself.

Berlin's reputation as a hub for creativity, counterculture, and radical self-expression attracts artists, LGBTQ+ individuals, and young migrants from across Europe, generating a therapy community with particularly strong expertise in identity, queer relationships, trauma, and the psychological challenges of creative careers. The German statutory health insurance system funds a significant number of therapy sessions annually through Kassenzulassung-approved providers — though waiting times for publicly funded slots are often long and many residents supplement with private care. Berlin's large Turkish, Arabic, and Eastern European communities drive demand for culturally competent and multilingual therapists, and the city has a well-established network of English-language practitioners serving its large expat population. Berlin's complex history — encompassing division, reunification, and proximity to living memory of authoritarian rule — shapes ongoing themes of political identity, freedom, and intergenerational trauma in clinical work.

Gender ID

	70%	Female
	10%	Male
	10%	Non-Binary
	10%	Gender Fluid

Session Type

	62%	In Person and Online
	38%	Online Only

Top Treatment Approaches

75%	Person-Centered Therapy (Rogerian)
50%	Relational Psychotherapy
50%	Psychodynamic Therapy
50%	Psychoeducational Therapy
38%	Existential / Humanistic Therapy
38%	Internal Family Systems (IFS)
25%	Somatic Therapy

Ages Served

100%	Adult
75%	Young Adult
50%	Senior
25%	Teen

Client Focus

50%	Women
38%	Men
38%	LGBTQ+
25%	Hindu
25%	Jewish

Trauma and PTSD therapists in Berlin, Germany DE

Dr. Damla Yildirim, PhD

Dr Aneliya Gonsard

Monique Hill

Adima Hawkes

Molly Toomey