Leonore Wesslau
Psychotherapist in training & Clinical Psychologist
I accompany people online and in person through different phases of life. I create an empathic space and understand my work as a collaborative process. I work in both German and English.
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About me
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.
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Approach
My work centers on you as a person with your own unique life story. I meet you with openness, respect, and genuine curiosity, without judgment or labels. I offer a safe and empathetic space in which everything is welcome: thoughts, feelings, longings, doubts, ambivalence, and inner contradictions. This protected framework forms the foundation for trust, personal growth, and lasting change.
My work is client-centered: you are the expert on your own life. I understand my work as a collaborative process of understanding, sensing, and realigning, in which we explore your inner experience, clarify meanings, and develop new perspectives. Throughout this process, I meet you with presence, attentiveness, and on equal footing.
My approach is primarily psychodynamic. Together, we examine inner dynamics, recurring relational patterns, and emotional imprints in order to bring connections into awareness, expand inner freedom, and open up new possibilities for action. We collaboratively select the approaches that best support you, creating a process tailored to your individual needs.
Experience
Coordinator (Team Lead) for two facilities for unaccompanied minor refugees, Berlin (since 05/2025)
Psychologist working in an inpatient, schema-based residential group setting, Berlin (2024–2025)
Psychosocial Counseling, Amsterdam (2024)
Recruitment and Human Resources, Amsterdam (2012–2024)
Recruitment and Human Resources, Frankfurt am Main (2017–2020)
Education
Training as a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, Berliner Akademie für Psychotherapie (since 01/2025)
Research Internship at a clinic in the USA specializing in ketamine therapy, conducting a mixed-methods pilot study on modern therapeutic approaches (2024)
Master of Science in Clinical Psychology (with focus on therapeutic interventions), Erasmus University Rotterdam (2023–2024)
Bachelor of Science in Psychology (dual specialization in Clinical Psychology & Clinical Developmental Psychology), University of Amsterdam (2020–2023)
Vocational Training as Office Management Assistant, Frankfurt am Main (2017–2020)
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
Couples Session
Couples Session
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