Therapy and Approach
There is no single right way to engage in therapy.
Some people come with a specific concern they would like support with. Others come with a less defined sense that something feels difficult, stuck, unclear, or different from how they would like it to be.
You do not need to have all the answers in advance. We can begin with what feels most important right now and explore it together at a pace and with a focus that make sense for you.
What might we explore?
Conversations can begin from many different themes, experiences, and life circumstances.
You are welcome to contact me if, for example, you are experiencing:
Stress or prolonged strain
Anxiousness, persistent worry, or racing thoughts
Grief, loss, or life crises
Self-criticism, low self-worth, or shame
Conflict in close Relationships
Difficulties in romantic relationships or other significant relationships
Breaches of trust, experiences of being let down, or the ending of a relationship
Challenges concerning boundaries, needs, or communication
Questions related to gender, identity, the body, or sexuality
Difficulties with closeness, desire, or intimacy
Experiences of violence, abuse, or other difficult relational experiences
A sense of being stuck or having lost direction
You do not need to have a precise label for what brings you here. Sometimes it only becomes clearer through conversation what is asking for attention.
How I Work
I see therapy as a collaborative process.
My role is not to tell you how to live your life or what you should do. Rather, I bring my professional knowledge, curiosity, and attention to the conversation so that together we can explore what matters to you.
I work from the understanding that people’s responses often make sense in light of their experiences, relationships, and life circumstances. I am therefore interested not only in what initially appears to be the problem, but also in the context in which it has taken shape.
This may include earlier experiences, current relationships, bodily responses, social expectations, norms, possibilities, limitations, and the ways you have tried to protect yourself or create meaning in what you are facing.
For me, therapy is therefore rarely about reducing a person to a diagnosis, a symptom, or a single explanation. It is more about creating a space in which greater understanding, new perspectives, and possibilities for movement may emerge.
This does not necessarily make everything simple. It may, however, make it possible to relate to what is difficult in new ways.
My Professional Approach
My work is grounded primarily in narrative and systemic perspectives, with psychodynamic sensitivity and a response-based orientation. Depending on the person, relationship, and context, I may also draw on attachment-informed, emotion-focused, trauma-informed, and IFS-inspired perspectives, as well as perspectives attentive to bodily experience.
This does not mean that therapy follows a fixed formula.
I adapt the work to the person or relationship I am meeting, and to the questions, experiences, and wishes that are relevant in the particular situation.
At times, we may focus on concrete situations, decisions, or relational patterns that are present here and now. At other times, it may be meaningful to explore experiences that have accompanied you for longer and may still influence how you relate to the world, your body, or other people.
I am particularly interested in relationships, gender, the body, and sexuality, but not as isolated themes. They often intersect with questions of identity, belonging, vulnerability, power, norms, experience, boundaries, desire, shame, contact, and meaning.
Across the work, the shared intention is to make room for greater understanding, broader possibilities, and closer contact with what feels important and meaningful.
In individual therapy, we begin with you and what is currently present in your life.
This may involve specific difficulties, difficult emotions, relationships, life choices, crises, identity, sexuality, self-understanding, or patterns that continue to recur.
Some people come with a clear sense of what they would like from therapy. Others come with a more open sense that something is no longer working as they would like it to. Both can be meaningful places to begin.
The first session gives us an opportunity to get to know one another a little and to explore what you are seeking support with, whether my way of working appears relevant, and what a possible process with me might look like.
There is no predetermined number of sessions that a person must attend. Some prefer a smaller number of sessions focused on a particular situation, while others choose a longer process with room for broader or more in-depth exploration.
We regularly consider what continues to make sense for you, and you are always welcome to raise new topics or suggest that we adjust the focus along the way.
Individual therapy
Framework for individual therapy
Individual therapy · 50 minutes
Sessions can take place in person in Vesterbro or online.
You can book a first therapy session directly through the booking system, or begin with a free initial consultation if you would prefer to speak briefly with me first.
In couples and relationship therapy, the focus is the relationship we are exploring and the people involved in it.
Relationship therapy may be relevant to many different forms of relationships. This may include romantic partners, spouses, open or polyamorous relationships, former partners, co-parents, siblings, friends, parents and adult children, or other relationships that are important in your lives.
We may explore communication, conflict, closeness, distance, trust, intimacy, boundaries, experiences of betrayal, jealousy, changes, or decisions concerning the future of the relationship.
My role is not to determine who is right or who has done something wrong. Rather, I seek to create a space in which each participant can be heard and taken seriously, and in which we can explore together what is happening between you.
This may involve recurring patterns, the experiences each of you brings into the relationship, and the longings, needs, or vulnerabilities that can be difficult to express in a way that can be heard.
The aim is not necessarily to reach one particular solution. Sometimes the work involves finding new ways of relating to one another. At other times, it involves gaining a clearer understanding of what is possible, wanted, or necessary going forward.
Couples and relationship therapy
Framework for couples and relationship therapy
Couples and relationship therapy · 90 minutes
Sessions can take place in person in Vesterbro or online.
The process usually begins with a joint session in which we explore the themes, wishes, and difficulties that have led you to seek therapy.
After this, I generally offer one individual session to each participant. The purpose is not to establish separate therapeutic processes, but to give each person an opportunity to share their perspectives, hopes, and concerns.
Subsequent sessions usually take place together.
A joint therapeutic setting requires that all participants are able to take part with sufficient freedom and safety. Where there is ongoing violence, coercive control, fear, or a significant imbalance in safety or freedom, joint therapy may not be an appropriate framework. I therefore consider this carefully and may recommend individual or more specialised support instead.
I do not provide parallel individual therapy to the same people while we are engaged in couples and relationship therapy. My primary responsibility within that process is to the shared relational work.
If one participant is unable to attend a scheduled session, the session will generally be cancelled for everyone. This is because the focus of relationship therapy is the shared work and the relational processes between you.
If one participant wishes to end the process while another or others would like to continue, we can discuss what options may be appropriate. In some circumstances, the joint process will need to end. In others, a different format may be considered following a new assessment and a clear agreement about the changed framework.
THe aim is not to keep anyone in a therapeutic process, but to maintain a clear and professionally responsible framework for everyone involved.
Confidentiality in couples and relationship therapy
At the beginning of the process, we agree on how information shared in any individual conversations will be handled.
I do not work within a framework in which information that is materially relevant to the shared therapeutic work is knowingly retained as a permanent secret from the other participant or participants.
If something is shared with me individually and appears significant to the relationship or the shared therapeutic work, we will discuss how it may be addressed in a safe and respectful way within the joint process.
I will not disclose information shared in confidence without consent unless I have a legal basis or duty to do so. If information that is central to the joint work cannot be addressed within the agreed framework, it may become necessary to pause or end the joint therapy rather than continue under unclear conditions.
This does not mean that everything must be said immediately or in the same way. An important part of the work may be finding a way to approach difficult conversations that is possible and responsible for everyone involved.
My aim is not to expose anyone or pressure anyone to disclose something before they are ready. Rather, it is to support clarity, honesty, and trust within the therapeutic work.
In-person and online therapy
Sessions are offered both in person in Vesterbro, Copenhagen, and online.
For some people, meeting in a therapy room is important. It can offer a sense of calm to step away from everyday life, enter a space dedicated to the conversation, and have a regular place to return to.
Others prefer online sessions. This may make therapy easier to accommodate in everyday life and offer greater flexibility if you are busy, live further away, travel frequently, or feel most comfortable in your own surroundings.
Online sessions take place via Whereby, which I use under a data processing agreement and with particular attention to confidentiality and data security.
For some people, it makes sense to choose one consistent format throughout the process. For others, their needs may change along the way. An in-person session may be most appropriate on one occasion, while an online session may make more sense on another.
There is no single right solution. What matters is that the setting supports the work we are undertaking together.
Free initial consultation
It can be difficult to choose a psychologist.
Perhaps you have read a little about me and my approach but are still unsure whether I am the right person to speak with. You may not yet know exactly what kind of support you are looking for, or whether beginning therapy is the right next step.
I therefore offer a free, no-obligation initial consultation online.
The conversation lasts up to 15 minutes. The purpose is not to begin therapy or cover everything that’s on your mind, but to create a brief space where we can talk about what you’re seeking help with and whether a therapeutic process with me makes sense to you right away.
You will have an opportunity to briefly describe what prompted you to get in touch, and you are welcome to ask questions about me, my approach, or the practical framework within which I work.
Some people leave the consultation with a clear sense that they would like to book a first therapy session. Others realise that they need something different, would like more time to consider their options, or would prefer to explore other possibilities first. Both are entirely valid outcomes.
If I assess that another professional, service, or more specialised setting may be more appropriate, I will, where possible, help point you in a relevant direction.