Laura Natz

Women:
Many women come to me because they sense that something isn’t quite right anymore—in their relationship, their family life, their career, or their relationship with themselves.

I support women in better understanding themselves, recognizing harmful patterns, and developing new ways to navigate their lives. It is particularly important to me to create a safe space for topics that are often difficult to discuss—domestic violence, or emotionally toxic relationship dynamics.

Possible topics may include:

• Mental load and care work
• Motherhood and questions of identity
• Equality in relationships
• Self-worth and self-confidence
• Setting boundaries and standing up for oneself
• People-pleasing and perfectionism
• Performance orientation and burnout
• Feelings of guilt and shame
• Breakups and new beginnings
• Conflicts with one’s family of origin
• Emotionally draining or toxic relationships
• Professional development and women’s visibility
• Feminine socialization and its impact on relationships
• The question: How do I actually want to live—regardless of others’ expectations?

I work in a systemic, resource-oriented manner, taking into account the social conditions that shape our experiences and relationships.

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Couples:
In my work with couples, I support relationships at very different stages—from a desire for greater closeness and connection to moments when it’s unclear whether they’ll continue together.

Couples come to me when they’re losing touch with each other, getting stuck in the same conflict patterns over and over, or feeling like they can no longer truly reach one another. The focus isn’t on what’s “right” or “wrong,” but on understanding what’s happening between the two of them.

Typical topics in couples therapy include:

• Reconnecting and deepening the partnership
• Strengthening conflict resolution and communication skills
• Recognizing and breaking out of entrenched relationship patterns
• Enhancing relationship quality and connection
• Identifying and better expressing relationship needs
• Intimacy and emotional closeness
• Ambivalence: Stay or Leave?
• Breakup counseling and support for a conscious, respectful ending
• Parenting and changes brought about by children
• Balancing partnership, family, and career
• Imbalances in responsibility, mental load, and care work
• Couples who live and work together
• Transitions and changes throughout life

In this context, couples therapy can serve as both a space for reconciliation and growth and a place to find clarity in ambivalent situations or to navigate a separation in a healthy and mindful way—regardless of whether children are involved or not.
I am particularly interested in how relationship patterns develop, what needs underlie them, and how we can break through stuck dynamics with mutual understanding.

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Families:

In my work with adult children and their families of origin, I help clients reflect on and reshape their relationships with parents, siblings, and even in-laws.

The focus is often on the desire to strengthen and reshape the quality of these relationships in adulthood, to facilitate honest interactions, and to develop meaningful connections across generations. It is also about acknowledging different life paths and perspectives, fostering understanding, respect, and mutual recognition, and consciously supporting transitions into new family roles.

Often, the focus is also on addressing formative experiences—such as growing up in highly conflictual family systems, experiences of separation, or exposure to emotional or domestic violence. These experiences must be understood and contextualized in terms of their significance for the present.

Another focus is on reflecting on roles that were assumed over the years and no longer fit today, as well as on the question of how a new way of coexisting can emerge after times of conflict.

I provide support in clarifying communication, reshaping contact, or consciously and stably maintaining distance—whichever feels right for the individual.

since 2023 - Part-time family therapist in an "parenting and family counseling center" in Berlin

since 2022 - Systemic counseling & therapy for individuals and couples in own practice

2020 - 2022 Team leader for a team of social workers, therapists, psychologists in social work (area: young adults with mental illness)

2018 -2020 Clinical social worker for young adults with mental illness

2011 - 2018 Social worker for teenagers and young adults in crisis and with suicidal ideation and self-injurious behavior

2024 - continuing education in Hypnosystemic Therapy and Counseling (online, Dr. med. G. Schmidt) and Systemic Sex and couples therapy (online, Prof. Dr. U. Clement)
2022 - Systemic individual, couples and families Therapist (DGSF)
2021 - Systemic Counselor (DGSF)
2018 - M.A. Clinical Social Work
2012 - B.A. Social Work