Ada Andrea Zsigmond
Psychodynamic Counsellor & Psychotherapist in training
Through my counselling experience, my training in psychodynamic therapy and a multicultural background, I support individuals and groups to find emotional and relational health, freedom and attachment in a complex life.
I specialise in:
About me
I do psychological counselling out of both passion and compassion. Next to my private practice, I offer anti-discrimination counselling and give psychological support to persons experiencing the various types of discrimination, racism or antisemitism.
Thus, I work in two diverse and multilingual teams, where I offer individual and group counselling:
(1) on experiences of depression, hope- and helplessness, anxiety, loss and grief, managing the intensity of anger, facing requirements to adapt at work, experiences of isolation, loneliness, difficulties to find and keep relationships, and
(2) on issues around migration, social orientation, adaptive processes, experiencing 'survival mode' and existential fears, facing discrimination of any kind, exclusion/inclusion, feeling lost, as well as the need for roots, home, community and belonging.
I am a training candidate in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis as well as in group analysis, and I am participating in a body-based psychodynamic psychotherapy class.
When I have time left, I design and give educational sessions and trainings in diversity and conflict transformation for international organisations.
I speak:
Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
In my practice, we explore the symptoms and psychic suffering as efforts to cope with underlying challenges, that can be intrapsychic or external. For that, I establish a transculturally sensitive, socially critical, yet generous and safe framework, and hold a secure space for difficult experiences of anger, pain, loss, fatigue, anxiety, so they can transform.
To unpack and work through these experiences, we either talk or inquire the body: posture, sensations, positioning in the room, cravings, impulses – to contain them together with a focus on either integration or conscious action.
Gaining back creativity, humour, liveliness and ressourcefulness requires a metaphorical walk through new weatherscapes or to experience the familiar ones from another angle. You have my curious and caring companionship for that.
Experience
Since 2025 | Clinical Psychologist, Psychological Counsellor | Private practice
Since 2023 | Anti-discrimination Counsellor, Psychological Counsellor | BDB - Bund für Antidiskriminierungs- und Bildungsarbeit e.V.
2023 | Psychotherapist (trainee) | Psychiatric Hospital Eftimie Diamandescu Bucharest
2022 | Intern at Charité - Berlin-Mitte | Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy | Center for Intercultural Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (ZIPP)
2017-2022 | Expert for Pedagogical Seminar Programme | Deutsche UNESCO-Kommission e. V., kulturweit
Since 2011 | Freelance facilitation and adult education (life-long learning) in active citizenship, diversity and conflict tranformation
Education
Since 2024 | BIPP - Berlin Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
2024 | IfP - Institute for Psychotherapy Potsdam
2022-2023 | Titu-Maiorescu-University Bucharest | M.A. Psychoanalysis
2019–2023 | International Psychoanalytic University Berlin | M.A. Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychoanalysis
Since 2018 | BIG - Berlin Institute for Group Analysis
2009–2012 | University of Potsdam | M.A. Political Science
2004-2008 | Babeș-Bolyai-University Cluj, Romania | Faculty for Political, Administration and Communication Sciences
Services
Individual Session
Individual Session
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