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With the social developments in recent decades, one can observe a rapidly increasing need for counselling in the most diverse everyday and professional life areas. It must guarantee that experienced-based, effective and efficient counselling based on theoretically and methodologically sound knowledge from an experienced perspective. A prerequisite for this is a scientifically elaborated, interdisciplinary counselling concept.

Counselling is in the field between individual therapeutic measures, social welfare activities and educational activities. It draws on knowledge from the following areas: medicine, psychology, psychagogy, psychotherapy, social work and sociology, and in exceptional cases, theology and legal sciences.

By synthesising and integrating psychodynamic, behavioural therapy, humanistic and systemic approaches, she develops ways of working for her specific work field.

Counselling in the psychosocial field deals with people who seek guidance, advice, support and help with various problems and questions of coping with their existence.