Manuela Luise
Non-medical Practitioner for Psychotherapy & Couples Therapist
❤️🩹 You are not alone. Coping with psychological or social difficulties can be hard. I offer support 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.
Before training as a therapist, I studied journalism and photography — a path that deepened my interest in people and their lives. Over 20 years living across different countries and cultures shaped my understanding of identity, belonging and relationships.
In 2022 I qualified as Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie in Germany. I live in Berlin with my partner, child, and two Greek cats.
✨ "It can be difficult to put thoughts and feelings into words."
During my Master's with leading Gestalt psychotherapists, I discovered Art Therapy — a way to process emotions beyond language. This led me to a second Bachelor's in Psychology.
✨ "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.
Please cancel or reschedule at least 48 hours in advance — sessions cancelled later will be charged in full.
I speak:
Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
✨ You bring the goals — I guide the process ✨
I offer a warm, informal and safe space where you can be yourself — where your feelings, your body, and your story all have room to be heard. I believe everyone has what it takes to heal and grow, given the right support.
Together, we'll approach the hard parts of your life with curiosity and kindness, not judgment — no labels, just you.
I work with:
🔹 Anxiety & depression — understood not as weaknesses, but as natural responses to unmet emotional needs
🔹 Relocation & cultural identity — supported by both professional training and personal experience of migration
🔹 Grief & loss — honouring each person's unique process, with a focus on stability and meaning-making
🔹 Couples therapy — using an attachment-based approach to strengthen emotional connection and security
✨ Ready to begin? Contact me for an initial consultation.
More info: 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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