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Katharina Albrecht
Counsellor
Internationally trained sex and relationship therapist for individuals and couples. I combine Somatic Experiencing®, systemic sex therapy and nervous-system work to reconnect body, desire and relationship.
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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, 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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Media Gallery
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 sexuality, 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.
Experience
2022-present freelance lecturer on issues concerning (refugee) trauma, psycho-sociality and the multidimensionality of care, TransVer, Charité Social Psychiatry
2014- present Psychologist in Private Practice
2021-2022 Team Psychologist at the COVID Intensive Care Unit, Charitè Universitätsmedizin, Mitte Campus
2020-2021 Psychosexual Counsellor working with Marginalised Communities, EJF
2017-2018 Team Psychologist at Race on the Agenda, London
Education
October 2025 The Neurobiology of Love and Safety for Psychotherapists with Prof. Stephen Porges & Prof. Sue Carter
September 2023 Essential Strategies for Healing Sexual Trauma and Sexuality with Ariel Giarretto
Jan 2023-Sep 2025 Somatic Experiencing® (SE), body-oriented psychotherapy from SE Greece in Athens, Greece
2020-2022 Postgraduate Training in Systemic Sex Therapy with Ulrich Clement, German Association for Sexual Research, Berlin Germany
April 2021 Female Desire in Sex Therapy Dr. Angelika Eck
2017-2019 PG Dip Refugee Care from the Centre for Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex, Colchester, UK & Tavistock Clinic, London
2018 Narrative Therapy Training at the Institute of Narrative Therapy, Toronto CA
2012-2014 Postgraduate Diploma Psychodynamic Couples Counselling, Tavistock Centre for Couple Relationships, London, UK
2007-2011 B.Sc. Psychosocial Sciences from the University of East London, London UK
Services
Individual Session
couple session
Individual Session
Couples Session
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