Hendrik Berg

Hi! I’m Hendrik. I was born around the time of the political transition in East Germany, have been a secondary school teacher as well as a teacher for special educational needs and previously worked as a school principal. Today, I work as a systemic therapist and counselor, an anti-discrimination trainer and lecturer specializing in diversity, classism, and ableism, as well as a doctoral candidate focusing on educational inequalities and discrimination-sensitive school development.

Over the past few years, I have lived and worked in Leipzig and Berlin among other cities. What shaped me most during that time was my work as a SEN teacher for children and adolescents with mental health challenges and as a teacher in a closed juvenile detention project. However, what has had the greatest impact on me is my own biographical, professional, and political engagement with inequality and discrimination.

As a therapist, I therefore consciously strive to work in a diversity-aware and discrimination-critical way, and I use inclusive and gender-sensitive language. Having grown up with both Christian and Muslim influences, I also bring sensitivity to religious needs and experiences into my practice.

I am perceived as male, I am white, from a working-class background, queer, and chronically ill. In my work, I focus on supporting people with:
◽ struggles in personal life, in academic or school contexts, and in professional environments,
◽ challenges related to chronic physical or neurological conditions, with a particular focus on ADHD and dis/ability, as well as
◽ questions and concerns related to LGBTQIA+ identities (especially for trans* people).

I speak German as my first language and I am fluent in English. I offer systemic therapy as well as - for specific and rather short-term concerns - systemic counseling in both languages.