Manuela Luise
Non-medical Practitioner for Psychotherapy & Couples Therapist
❤️🩹You are not alone 👥 Coping with psychological or social problems can be very difficult to achieve. I offer help to individuals and couples through therapeutic dialogue and visual techniques. Languages: 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇪🇸
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About me
💫 Welcome! I’m Manuela. I offer an integrative, client-centred approach and warmly welcome individuals of all genders, backgrounds and identities.💫
Born in Italy, I have always been interested in people and their lives. Before training as a therapist, I cultivated my interest in psychology and understanding others through the study of journalism and photography. Over the past 20 years, I have lived in several countries and experienced different cultures. These experiences have profoundly influenced my understanding of identity, belonging and relationships.
In 2022, I obtained the German Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie qualification, which allows me to work in private practice. I currently live in Berlin with my partner, child and two Greek cats.
✨ "It can be difficult to put thoughts and feelings into words"✨ While studying for a Master's degree led by renowned Gestalt psychotherapists, I discovered how Art therapy offers a non-verbal and often non-threatening way to communicate and process emotions, bypassing the limitations of language and accessing deeper levels of awareness. This experience inspired me to pursue a second Bachelor's degree in Psychology, reshaping my career and professional focus.
✨ "Supporting people to feel safe and connected with themselves and others is at the heart of my work."✨ Driven by the desire to help people foster deeper connections, I became interested in attachment theory and learned about Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT). Through the training in Internal Family System Therapy I am learning how to bring attachment theory inside, helping my clients feeling more safe, secure and connected with their parts/thoughts/feelings.
💫 Contact me to book a 35-minute introductory session. 💫
Notice: Please cancel or request an alternative appointment at least 48 hours in advance. Sessions not cancelled within this time frame will be charged in full.
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Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
✨ You bring the goals — I guide the process ✨ I provide a structured and supportive therapeutic setting in which you can explore your experiences, emotional patterns, and relational dynamics.
My work is based on HUMANISTIC PRINCIPLES: 👉 I SEE YOU AS A WHOLE, valuing your feelings, mind, body, and soul. 👉I believe in the power of an ACTIVE SELF. All our actions, both mental and physical, are directed towards providing STRUCTURE, MEANING, and fulfilling our BASIC NEEDS . 👉 At the heart of every person is an innate DRIVE TO HEAL, GROW & DEVELOP as individuals. 👉LET'S EXPLORE and normalise stuck places with curiosity and compassion, normalising your experiences and moving beyond labels and pathologising.
ANXIETY & DEPRESSION, are complex emotions. It is important to recognise that they are not weaknesses but natural responses to life's challenges. They are often the result of unmet emotional needs and feelings of lack of support. Through our work together I will help you to identify and address these unmet needs.
I also support individuals facing RELOCATION, CULTURAL TRANSITION AND IDENTITY-RELATED CHALLENGES, drawing on both professional experience and personal understanding of migration and intercultural living.
My work with GRIEF AND LOSS is grounded in an understanding of the grieving process as a natural and individual response, and focuses on providing stability, emotional processing, and meaning-making.
In COUPLES THERAPY the client is the relationship. Using an attachment-based framework, I support partners in identifying relational patterns, expressing underlying emotions, and strengthening secure attachment as a foundation for intimacy and relational stability.
✨ If you feel ready to begin, I invite you to contact me for an initial consultation.
VISIT MY HOME PAGE FOR MORE INFOS: https://manuelaluise.com
Experience
-Offering INDIVIDUAL & COUPLES therapy sessions LIVE in Berlin Friedrichshain and ONLINE since 2022
-Offering GROUP Art therapy sessions in Italian, English and German since 2019, in a variety of settings, with adults and teenagers.
Education
MA Clinical psychology children and adolescents psychology (Uninettuno, Rome) Ongoing
IFS Internal Family System Therapy Training -Level II IFIO Couples training with Janet McCurdy and Joya Lonsdale (certified IFS Institute - Madrid) 2026 -Level I IFS training with Imma Lloret & Roser Batalla Serra (certified IFS Institute - Barcelona) 2023
SE Somatic Experiencing -Level I training with Liane Pinto ( certified SE Institute - Barcelona) 2025
BA Psychology
Uninettuno, Rome 2023
EFT Emotionally Focused Therapy Training Couples & Individuals -externship with Dr Elmien Lesch (certified EFT Institute - South Africa) 2022 -attachment science in practice with Dr Sue Johnson 2022
Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie (Non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy) Gesundheitsamt Tempelhof-Schönenberg, Berlin 2022
MA Art Therapy focused on Photography, Video and Theatre Pontifical University Antonianum, Rome 2014
BA Photography, Journalism & News Media. Roehampton University, London 2009
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
Individual Session
Couples Session
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