Do you offer therapy in Berlin in person?

No. I work entirely online, seeing clients anywhere in Berlin or Germany, and continuing with them if they move on. Sessions are in English, scheduled around your working day.

Why is it so hard to find an English-speaking therapist in Berlin?

Demand far outstrips supply: Berlin holds one of Europe's largest international communities, and English-language therapy within the German system can involve significant waits. Working online and privately removes that queue.

Why do I feel lonely in Berlin when the city is full of internationals?

Because a city of people in transit is easy to meet and hard to hold. Friendships often live on a season or a visa, and constant goodbyes teach people to invest lightly. That is structural, not a personal failing.

My partner and I want different things from Berlin. Is that workable?

Very often, yes. One partner thriving while the other quietly grieves is one of the most common patterns I see here. The work is naming both experiences as legitimate and deciding together what this chapter is for.

English-Speaking Therapist in Berlin

An English-speaking therapist for expats in Berlin

Online therapy in English for the loneliness, anxiety and relationship strain beneath all that freedom.

Berlin can be deeply free and quietly hard. The openness and the culture and the sense of possibility are real, and so are the bureaucracy, the long grey winters, the language barrier and the isolation that can settle in once the novelty fades.

I am a BACP-registered relational therapist working online with expats in Berlin and across Germany, in English, in privacy.

01Lonely in the city where everyone is from somewhere else

Berlin should be the easiest city in the world to belong in. Nobody is really from here; the person next to you at the späti moved from Madrid, São Paulo or Manchester too. And yet the loneliness in this city has its own particular flavour: a place built on reinvention attracts people who are between things, between careers, between relationships, between versions of themselves, and a city of people in transit is warm to meet and hard to hold on to. Friendships burn bright for a season and dissolve when the visa ends, the project ends, or the winter wins.

Add the famous Berlin winter, months of grey that arrive just as your social scaffolding thins, and it is no mystery that so many expats here describe feeling simultaneously free and unmoored.

02The English bubble and the German wall

You can work, date and socialise in Berlin entirely in English, and then the Anmeldung letter arrives, or the Krankenkasse form, or the landlord dispute, and suddenly you are a child again, dependent on a colleague’s translation for decisions that shape your life. Living between an English bubble and a German officialdom is its own quiet stressor: competent all day, helpless at the letterbox.

And when people here decide to get support, they often meet the next wall: finding therapy in Berlin can involve long waits, and finding it in English, at a time that fits, longer still. Because I work online and privately, there is no waiting list. You can start this week, in English, and continue even if Berlin turns out to be one more chapter rather than the whole book.

03Love in a city that prizes freedom

Berlin gives relationships room to be anything, and that freedom cuts both ways. Some of my clients here are trying to hold a committed relationship in a culture of open doors, wondering whether their wish for something settled makes them boring or just honest. Others moved here for a partner and found themselves inside that partner’s scene, their friends, their neighbourhood, their language, with no ground of their own. And couples who arrived together often discover the city stretches them in different directions: one thrives on the openness, the other quietly grieves the life they left.

I work with individuals and couples in all of these positions, online, in English. The work is not to decide what a relationship in Berlin should look like. It is to help you decide what yours needs to look like, and to say it to each other without the fight.

04When the move strains your relationship

A move to Germany often falls unevenly on a couple, one settled by work, the other isolated by admin and language. The relationship can become your only familiar ground here. I work with this directly, see relationship crisis abroad and trailing partner support.

05Why online

A suitable English-speaking therapist can be hard to find locally in Berlin. Online with me gives you consistent English-language support wherever you are and continuity if you move again. Individual GBP70, couples GBP100.

06How I work

We begin where it hurts and make sense of it together, integrative and relational, drawing on attachment, parts work and trauma-informed therapy. If you are unsure online therapy across borders fits, I assess it openly first: suitability.