Iris Lachnit
Counsellor
Are you facing a crisis, conflict, or difficult decision and feel like you can't find a way forward? I look forward to exploring with you how to mobilize your resources and expand your options for action!
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About me
As a state-approved psychotherapist, I work with individuals, families, and couples seeking psychological treatment and professional support during crises, conflicts, or difficult decision-making processes.
After more than 6 years of experience in inpatient and outpatient psychotherapeutic work and extensive training in Systemic Therapy, I am excited to bring my professional passion, expertise, and practical knowledge to our work together.
My extensive career and personal life experience—including living in different countries, navigating partnership and parenthood, founding a family, and establishing professional self-employment—enable me to empathize deeply with my clients’ experiences and to grasp the complexities of relationship and family dynamics.
I speak:
Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
In my private practice in Berlin-Schöneberg, I provide a respectful and trusting environment, supporting you in:
• (Re)discovering and strengthening hidden resources, • Developing new and helpful perspectives, • Exploring new options for action, • Strengthening access to your emotions and utilizing them, • Changing blocking or energy-draining relationship dynamics, • Involving significant others in the treatment/counseling process, where appropriate.
Key assumptions underlying my work include:
• You are the expert of your own life and already carry the solution within you. • Problems arise in interpersonal relationships (and in the relationship with ourselves). • Circular causality: every behavior is both a cause and an effect.
I am convinced of the effectiveness of multi-person settings and encourage you to involve significant others or family members in the sessions to address and foster beneficial changes. If this is not possible or desired, we consider the perspectives of relevant system members in individual settings. Positive change can occur both internally (e.g., shifts in inner attitudes) and externally (e.g., changes in interactions).
In addition to systemic methods, I incorporate hypnosystemic and body-oriented techniques, as well as methods from psychodrama, art therapy, and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), based on my personal interests and qualifications.
Experience
Since 2025: employed as state-approved Therapist at "Private Practice for Psychotherapy and Coaching Dr. Viola Kappel & Colleagues", Berlin-Schöneberg
Since 2024: working in own private practice as Systemic Therapist for individuals, couples, and families in Berlin-Schöneberg.
2021–2024: Outpatient treatment at the Psychotherapeutic Outpatient Clinic, ISTB GmbH, Berlin.
Jan–Dec 2022: Family Therapist at "Mondlicht 24"--Therapeutic residential group for girls and young women with eating disorders, Neues Wohnen im Kiez GmbH, Berlin.
Jan–Sept 2021: Clinical internship in art therapy at the Gardner Neuroscience Institute, University of Cincinnati, and the Good Samaritan Hospital, Cincinnati, US.
2019–2020: Psychotherapist in training at the Clinic for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, Sophien- und Hufeland-Klinikum Weimar, Germany.
2015: Co-conceptualization and co-leadership of a leadership training program for DB Netz AG, Karlsruhe, Germany.
Education
2024: "Systemic Therapist, Couples and Family Therapist" (DGSF)
2019–2025: state-approved licensure training in Systemic Therapy at ISTB – Therapy and Organizational Development GmbH, Berlin, Germany
2012–2016: Psychodrama Practitioner Training at the Psychodrama Institute Freiburg/Heidelberg, Germany
2018: Master of Science in Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, Technical University of Dresden, Germany and University of Connecticut, US
2015: Bachelor of Science in Psychology, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany and Turku University, Finland
Services
Individual Session
Couples Session
Family Session
First session
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