Although always having been particularly interested in psychology and psychotherapy, my path to therapeutic work was not straightforward. It wasn’t until over the age of 40 that I made a career change, and as I didn’t wish to study at a university again, I opted for a practical and wholistic approach and decided to train as an alternative practitioner for psychotherapy. However, my work ist not based on alternative medicine, but on scientifically recognised and evidence-based, proven effective treatment methods.

I was born in 1980 and live in Regensburg.

Elke Reichl, therapist

Sessions with me currently only online, as or in publicly accessible locations. Home visits are possible upon request.

I believe that our society doesn’t cultivate a helpful, appreciative perception of failure, need for help, crises, misconduct, misdemeanour or transgressions. Neither does it do so with people suffering from mental disorders or people whose lives deviate from what some kind of common sense defines as usual. The desire to fulfil expectations too often prevents us from actual fulfilment, and appearance grows to outweigh substance more and more. Yet a truly content life is possible through authenticity only! Also failure and vulnerability are not the exception - the are the rule! We all face them. We all have been in a place of shame, despair, withdrawal, hopelessness.

The question is not wether we do or do not go through that, but wether we do or do not recognise it as the resource that it is. Disorientation may give rise to empowerment, shame to meaning and self-acceptance, defeat to strength. There is no shadow without light, nor light without shadow - the dark sides are part of the our emotional richness as human beings.

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