Marcel Kamppeter
Psychological Psychotherapist & Clinical Psychologist
I help people turn towards their own experience, more actively, more intentionally, and with growing confidence in what they will find there.
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About me
In Anna Karenina there is a moment where one person catches a glimpse of another's inner world. A door briefly opens, and then is deliberately closed. I think this is often something we learn to do ourselves.
For me, this image captures something about what therapy can be at its best: a space patient and honest enough that those doors can open, and where the aim is not to force anything but to make it possible to leave them open, if only to oneself, and as much as feels right.
I'm a licensed psychotherapist (German Approbation) with seven years of clinical experience. Alongside psychology, I studied philosophy of mind, and that combination has shaped how I think about my work: less in terms of diagnostic categories and more in terms of the underlying processes that keep people stuck. Meditation has been a steady part of my life for years, a practice of meeting experience as it is. My practice sits between these two poles. From meditation comes a close attention to the moment-to-moment unfolding of experience; from philosophy, the concepts that help make that experience more intelligible, and in turn more workable.
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Approach
Many people come to therapy having spent years trying to think their way out of difficult emotions: worrying, analysing, planning. These patterns often made sense at some point, and in the right context they still do. The problem is usually not the thinking itself, but that it has become the only available response.
When we look at what keeps someone stuck, the how matters as much as the what. Worry that stays abstract and verbal tends to spiral. The same content, approached differently, often doesn't. Understanding your particular version of these patterns—what triggers them, how they unfold, what they're trying to solve—is usually where the useful work begins. This looks different depending on the person. In anxiety and depression it often takes the form of repetitive verbal thought. In ADHD and autism spectrum experiences, certain situations or demands can feel genuinely impossible to process, which is where procrastination, compulsive behaviour, and overthinking enter the picture.
The feeling that you should be able to do something but can't is one of the most common things people bring to therapy, and one of the least straightforward. If this happens to you, you may take it as evidence that you are not motivated enough or not disciplined enough, and these thoughts can bring a weight of self-judgement that accumulates over time. In my experience, though, it usually means the action feels disconnected from something fundamental: your own values, needs, or sense of self.
My work is grounded in CBT. I draw on exposure-based methods, EFT, and mindfulness where they fit. I engage in ongoing individual supervision with an accredited psychotherapist in active practice.
Experience
2024-2026 MSB Ausbildungsambulanz Outpatient Psychotherapy
2021-2023 Tagesklinik und Psychiatrische Institutsambulanz (In and Outpatient) Asklepios Brandenburg
2020-2021 MyWay psychological stabilization within integration assistance
2018-2019 Accare Children and Youth psychological and psychiatric outpatient clinic
Education
2020 – 2026/3 Psychotherapy training (Medicalschool Berlin)
2017- 2019 Clinical and Nueroclinical Psychology M.S. (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
2015 - 2017 Bachelor Philosophy (of Cognitive Science) B.A. (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
2014 - 2017 Bachelor Psychology B.S. (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
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