Leonore Wesslau

I completed my university education in the Netherlands. Professionally, I have worked in psychosocial counseling and as a psychologist. I am currently completing my training as a psychodynamic psychotherapist.

My international education and professional experience have profoundly shaped my perspective on people, their life paths, and the cultural contexts in which personal development unfolds. Through my own experience as an expat, I am familiar with the inner processes involved in living between cultures, languages, and senses of belonging.

Drawing on my own lived experience, I also understand what it means to live in a large city such as Berlin and to navigate tensions between freedom and limitation, connection and withdrawal, openness and overwhelm. For many people, everyday life is marked by diversity, a fast pace, constant change, and a wide range of life paths. The speed of urban living, the abundance of impressions, and social density often go hand in hand with sensory overload, loneliness, disorientation, and inner restlessness. My work consciously engages with these urban living conditions, offering space to work with inner tensions and questions of identity and belonging.

Another focus of my work is the support of neurodivergent individuals. Neurodivergent ways of perceiving and processing information represent valuable resources and are associated with a wide range of strengths. At the same time, within a performance-oriented, fast-paced, and norm-driven society, they can often be experienced as challenging or burdensome. My work focuses on developing a deeper understanding of one’s own neurodivergent way of being, making its potentials visible, and finding ways to engage with them consciously and self-compassionately, in alignment with one’s individual needs.