Stress / Anxiety / Relationships
You are likely here to address a current stress. And you probably hold an ambition to change going forward. Maybe you carry unfinished business from the past.
Clients often seek help with psychological challenges, structure and relationships. They want to regain a sense of self, shown through calm, confidence and connection. Working through:
- stress and pressure
- emotional imbalance
- challenge & adjustment
- difficult relationships
- performance blockages
- setbacks in health & fitness
- obstacles in career and leadership
- lack of mental clarity
- unhealthy lifestyle
- isolation and meaninglessness
- cluttered life and mind
- unresolved trauma
- other unfinished business
We can go past, pause and forward
Balancing and Strengthening
Counselling brings clarity and care to pressing issues here and now. It provides a necessary space to gain perspective, process and make adjustments. Sebastian will equip you with hands-on tools, techniques and insights.
Imagine counselling as pressing the pause button on your life’s playlist. Sometimes tracks have become broken records, turned into noise and creating stress. Pause and create an immediate silence, it’s time for calm and confidence!
“Like pressing the pause button, counselling offers an opportunity to reset, reflect and rebuild.”
In order to best help you work through your distress Sebastian has trained internationally in a broad range of programs. He therefore integrates neuroscience, cognitive-behavioural and emotion-focused concepts as well as profoundly researched meta-cognitive and mindfulness-based practices.
Common Challenges in Counselling
Counselling applies when you are …
- anxious, concerned or excessive worry
- angry, short tempered
- battling compulsive behaviours
- unable to let go or let things be
- emotionally imbalanced
- facing intrusive thoughts
- impatient or irritable
- nerveless and unrestful
- perfectionistic or controlling
- sleep badly (i.e. trouble falling asleep, waking early)
- stressed, stuck or depressed
- ready to confide or confess
- ready to address unfinished business
- unhappy, unfulfilled or unfaithful
- unable to “waste” time
- detached or dissociated
- in a fight, flight or freeze state
With Counselling you can achieve …
- Self-Assessment – just as hitting pause allows you to examine the details, counseling gives you a chance to reflect on your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
- Understanding Patterns – identify patterns in your life that are causing distress or holding you back
- Focus on Issues – better understand the complexity of daily life; in the quiet, you can concentrate on the specific sounds—those sad or stressful feelings
- Strategic Planning – develop strategies to tackle problems and make decisions that are thoughtful and deliberate.
- Processing Emotions – taking a break from the chaos of life to regulate emotions and catch your breath
- Emotional Release – release pent-up emotions in a safe and supportive environment
- Learning New Skills – acquire new coping mechanisms and communication skills
- Rehearsing Behaviours – practice new behaviours and approaches to situations, preparing for when you un-pause and hit play again
- Mental Recharging – helping you face life’s challenges with renewed energy
- Exploration – explore the tracks that no longer serve you and decide what needs to change
- Rebuilding – start creating new and healthier behaviours and coping strategies
Expanding and Flourishing
Coaching is a powerful way to personal and professional growth. It helps you to expand your horizon and to flourish in various aspects of your live. Sebastian provides the structured, supportive environment to achieve your future vision more effectively.
Coaching becomes your fast forward button to excellent Self-Leadership. This collaborative process encompasses self-discovery, goal setting, motivation, decision making and resilience building. It helps you to plan, manage and achieve your personal and professional projects successfully.
“Coaching helps to overcome obstacles and accelerate your journey towards meaningful goals!”
Coaching is an ongoing process of growth and development. Sebastian will support you in setting new objectives and continuing your journey of self-improvement. A deeper understanding of your strengths, values and passions will help align your actions and attitudes.
Common Challenges in Coaching
Common Issues addressed …
- Personal Growth
- Enhance your self-awareness, build self-confidence, and develop better interpersonal skills to improve all areas of your life
- Life Transitions
- Navigate significant life changes such as
- starting a new job
- relocating to a new place
- managing personal relationships
- Navigate significant life changes such as
- Overcoming Obstacles
- Break through personal or professional barriers that are hindering your progress
- Leadership Development
- Build essential leadership skills
- Improve team management
- Self-leadership growth
- Emotional Resilience
- Learn to cope with stress, build resilience and manage emotional challenges effectively
- Creativity and Innovation
- Foster creativity, innovation, and problem-solving skills in personal or professional projects
- Work-Life Balance
- Find a healthy balance between professional responsibilities and personal life
- Regain a meaningful fulfilled life
- Career Development
- Whether you’re looking to advance in your current job, switch careers, or improve job performance, our coaching will guide you towards success
- Goal Setting and Achievement
- Set realistic goals and stay accountable in achieving them with structured support
- Fitness and Wellness
- Develop healthier habits and improve physical and mental well-being
Typical growth targets …
- Self-Leadership Development
- Increases self-awareness of patterns in personality and social interaction
- Understand your strengths, weaknesses, values and motivators
- Enables you to set clear, meaningful goals aligned with your aspirations
- Enhances your decision-making abilities, helping you make informed and confident choices
- Fosters intrinsic motivation by aligning your goals with your core values and passions
- Teaches effective time management and prioritization strategies to stay focused and productive
- Ensures accountability to your commitments and tracks your progress
- Develop resilience to handle setbacks and obstacles with confidence and adaptability
- Personal Projects
- Helps you articulate a clear vision for your personal projects, ensuring you have a strong sense of direction
- Creates actionable plans that break down your projects into manageable steps
- You gain valuable skills, such as project management, communication and problem-solving, to effectively execute your personal projects
- Identify and leverage resources, including time, finances and networks to support your projects
- Strategies are provided to navigate challenges and obstacles, ensuring continuous progress
- Recognise resourcefulness and celebrate achievements along the way, boosting motivation and confidence.
- Professional Projects
- Enhance skills and competencies relevant to your professional goals, such as leadership, negotiation and teamwork
- Coaches help you develop strategic plans for your professional projects, aligning them with organizational goals and objectives.
- You receive feedback and guidance on improving your performance and efficiency in executing professional tasks.
- Coaching teaches effective communication and relationship-building techniques to manage stakeholders and team dynamics.
- Coaches encourage innovative thinking and creative problem-solving to drive project success.
- Emphasis is placed on lifelong learning and adaptability, ensuring you stay ahead in your professional field.
Structured approach to success …
- Initial Consultation
- The coaching process begins with an initial consultation where you and your coach will discuss your goals, challenges, and what you hope to achieve. This session sets the foundation for your coaching journey.
- Goal Setting
- Together with your coach, you will identify specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals. This ensures that you have a clear vision of what you want to accomplish.
- Action Planning
- Your coach will help you develop a strategic action plan, breaking down your goals into manageable steps. This plan will serve as your roadmap, outlining the actions needed to move forward.
- Skill Development
- Throughout the coaching process, you’ll work on building essential skills, such as communication, time management, and decision-making. Your coach will provide tools and techniques to help you develop these skills.
- Motivation and Accountability
- Regular coaching sessions provide ongoing motivation and accountability. Your coach will track your progress, celebrate your successes, and help you stay focused on your goals.
- Overcoming Obstacles
- When challenges arise, your coach will offer strategies to navigate them effectively. This includes identifying potential roadblocks and developing solutions to overcome them.
- Self-Discovery
- Coaching fosters self-discovery by encouraging you to reflect on your strengths, values, and passions. This deeper understanding of yourself will help align your actions with your true self.
- Feedback and Adjustment
- Your coach will provide constructive feedback and help you make necessary adjustments to your action plan. This ensures that you stay on track and continue progressing toward your goals.
- Continuous Growth
- Coaching is an ongoing process of growth and development. Even after achieving your initial goals, your coach will support you in setting new objectives and continuing your journey of self-improvement.
Healing and Unburdening
Therapy helps to free yourself from recurring negativity. It addresses both the immediate issues and the deep-seated emotional wounds that prevent well-being. In order to heal stress and emotional pain, therapy often taps into the past of a person.
Sebastian’s therapeutic interventions are designed to help individuals navigate through a wide range of mental health issues and emotional challenges. He is a mental health professional trained to uncover the underlying causes of distress and guide through effective healing.
“Psychotherapy is not managing symptoms, it’s about empowering self-leadership.”
Rest assured, that this time travel is never meant to make you relive trauma nor to judge or condemn parents or others. The aim is simply to collect observations about what happened to you. Trauma can be unburdened verbally and in silence.
Common Challenges in Therapy
Through evidence-based techniques like cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and Internal Family Systems (IFS), individuals learn to manage their symptoms, alter negative thought patterns and develop healthier behaviours.
Emotional Injuries & Trauma
Therapy provides a safe and supportive environment to explore and process past adversities, including trauma and other emotional injuries.
Emotional injuries from childhood, like abuse, neglect or enmeshment. As well as trauma from unhealthy relationships, parenting, accidents, illnesses, chronic diseases.
These significant life events are addressed through empathic listening, validation, and therapeutic interventions that aim to rebuild self-esteem, improve self-compassion, and foster emotional regulation.
Mental & Behavioural Health
- Anxiety
- generalized
- social (shyness)
- panic)
- phobias
- Attention
- attention deficit
- hyperactivity
- Compulsive behaviour
- Unhealthy eating habits
- Mood
- depression
- mood swings
- seasonal & cyclical
- Obsessive and intrusive thinking
- Post-traumatic stress
- Personality
- Unhealthy Lifestyle
Get your personalised support
With decades of experience, Sebastian tailors his approach to enhance emotional balance, mental strength and physical performance.
His practice offers confidentiality and human connection via online video-calls or in-person meetings.