Kai Egener
Social worker
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart... Live the questions now." - Rainer Maria Rilke I'm here to help you find calm and inner wisdom in difficult places.
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About me
Originally from the US, I have been working in social worker and counselling roles in Germany for over 14 years, with a focus on helping people who are questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation. In the past few years, I've been training to becoming a licensed child and youth behavioral psychotherapist as well.
Due to my social work background and personal biography, I also am able to offer deep, authentic knowledge of social and medical services available in Berlin, and of struggles related to coming out, gender dysphoria, body image, chronic illness, neurodiversity, financial hardship, and migration.
I look forward to meeting you!
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Approach
I can offer private-pay counselling sessions for adults online or in-person via "walk and talk" sessions. I use cognitive behavioral (CBT) and dialectical (DBT) techniques, and draw frequently on minority stress models and an understanding of the effects of structural and interpersonal discrimination when working with clients.
As I am still in training as a psychotherapist, I am not yet able to offer psychotherapy or make formal diagnoses.
Experience
Present:
Staff counsellor, Child and Youth Team, InterTrans Counselling, Gay Counselling Center (Schwulenberatung) Berlin
Present: Child and youth psychotherapist in training, Zentrum für Seelische Gesundheit, Freie Universität Berlin
2023: Child and youth psychotherapist trainee, Child and Youth Department, Hospital of the German Red Cross, Berlin-Westend
2022: Child and youth psychotherapist trainee, MVZ Märchenweltmeer (formerly the practice of Dr. Jakob Hein), Berlin
2020-2021: Staff counsellor, InterTrans Counselling, Gay Counselling Center (Schwulenberatung) Berlin
2015-2020: Nonprofit founder and workshop co-leader, creative empowerment workshops for trans*/non-binary/questioning adults and youth
2010-2021: Psychosocial support worker for LGBTI adults, Project Queer Leben, Gay Counselling Center (Schwulenberatung) Berlin
Education
2021-present: Psychotherapist for children and youth, preliminary license (Kinder und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeut in Ausbildung, mit Behandlungserlaubnis)
2017: Master of Social Work in Education and Counselling, Katholische Hochschule für Sozialwesen Berlin
2009: Bachelor of Arts in Film Production, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Services
Individual Session
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