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Katharina Albrecht
Counsellor
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About me
I’m an internationally trained sex and relationship therapist and Attachment-Focused Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner. Originally from Northern Germany, I completed my university education and clinical training across the UK, Canada, Greece and Germany before establishing an international practice working with individuals and couples around the world.
My work brings together systemic sex therapy, differentiation-based couples work, attachment theory, psychodynamic thinking and Somatic Experiencing®. Rather than focusing solely on insight, I help clients understand how relationship patterns, sexuality and trauma are expressed through the body and nervous system, creating the conditions for lasting change rather than temporary coping.
I work online internationally, alongside periods of in-person practice in Southeast Asia and Berlin, where I also offer embodied, touch-based work for clients able to travel. My practice is trauma-informed, sex-positive, and welcoming of all bodies, genders, sexual orientations and relationship structures.
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Approach
I work from the understanding that our greatest relational difficulties are rarely problems of communication alone. They are expressions of nervous-system states, attachment histories, unconscious expectations, and ways of protecting ourselves that once made sense but no longer serve us.
My approach integrates differentiation-based couples therapy, systemic sex therapy, attachment-focused Somatic Experiencing®, and contemporary neuroscience. Together, these perspectives allow us to work not only with what you think or understand intellectually, but with the physiological patterns that shape intimacy, desire, conflict, trust and emotional connection.
Differentiation-based work has profoundly shaped how I understand relationships: genuine intimacy becomes possible when we can remain connected to ourselves while staying emotionally engaged with another person. Through Somatic Experiencing®, this capacity becomes something we don't simply understand—it becomes something the nervous system can gradually experience and embody.
My work with sexuality is equally grounded in the belief that desire cannot be forced. Rather than treating sexuality as a problem to solve, we explore the conditions that allow desire, pleasure and authentic connection to emerge naturally, free from shame, obligation or performance.
At the same time, psychodynamic thinking continues to inform how I understand unconscious relationship patterns, family dynamics and the subtle ways our earliest experiences continue to shape adult intimacy. Together, these perspectives allow us to work with both the visible and invisible forces that influence how we love, relate and protect ourselves.
Fees
Individual sessions (50 minutes) — €150
Couples sessions (75 minutes) — €220
I work in blocks of ten sessions, which gives the work the continuity it needs. Booked as a block, individual sessions are €130 and couples sessions €190.
Single sessions are always available — there's no obligation to commit to a block before we've met.
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