My name is Ben Jackson and I'm a native English speaker offering individual therapy in Berlin. I completed five years of training in psychotherapy in 2016 and now work in private practice in Kreuzberg.
I was born in Dublin spent almost all my life there until 2009, when I moved to Germany. Before that I studied philosophy at Trinity College Dublin and, after graduating, worked in business and the arts.
My interest in psychotherapy first began during my time at university and I wrote my thesis on an aspect of C.G. Jung’s work. In 2011, I began training in humanistic and integrative counselling and psychotherapy at the Irish Institute of Counselling and Psychotherapy Studies (now the Turning Point Institute) in Dublin, graduating in 2016 with a Diploma in Integrative Clinical Psychotherapy. I also hold a Graduate Diploma in Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy from Dublin City University, the European Certificate of Psychotherapy and a certificate in trauma therapy.
I am a member of the European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP), the Deutscher Dachverband für Psychotherapie (DVP) and the Association of Counselors and Therapists Berlin (ACT). I have been living and working in Berlin since 2009 where I am licensed to practice psychotherapy under the Heilpraktiker Gesetz. I have been seeing patients since 2013.
These days my practice is primarily informed by psychodynamic (psychoanalytic oriented) ways of working. I also practice focusing-oriented psychotherapy - which helps us to use the information in the bodily “felt-sense” of what we’re experiencing and am a certified trauma therapist.
In private practice since 2013
Grad Dipl. Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy Dipl. Integrative Clinical Psychotherapy European Certificate of Psychotherapy, Certificate in Psychodynamic Imaginative Trauma Therapy Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie