Maja Helena Harmes
Systemic Therapist
Creating an open, accepting environment for you to explore how you want to grow, how to take care of your needs and how to communicate them. For authenticity and connection. Neurodiversity and 2e informed
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About me
I've always been curious about how we percieve the world does actually shape our experience of it. And in finding my own clarity as a way of supporting others. This has led me from studying visual arts over meditation and mindfulness to becoming a counsellor and therapist. I have been working as a counsellor for over a decade, supporting people and families in difficult circumstances, children with disabilities, gifted, neurodivergent or neurocomplex children and young adults with Autism / ADHD. Since 2020 I work as a systemic counsellor and therapist, supporting clients in developing their own ways. I have completed the training as a systemic therapist which incorporated methods like of a variety of very valuable methods like Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Schema-Therapy and Emotion-Focused therapy as well as and am currently deepening my understanding of Emotion-Focused therapy for couples in an in a second further training in EFT for couples. In my practice I use all of the above depending on what is best suited for your situation. I have been practicing mindfulness and meditation for over fifteen years and find it to be a key to understanding myself and others and to actually being present with my clients.
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Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
In my experience the way we perceive the world is key to our thriving or contentment. Sometimes we struggle finding a perspective that makes us feel like we can actually do something to make things easier and brings us closer to what is really important to us. Creating a supportive environment for you to explore how you want to grow, how to take care of your needs and how to communicate them in your relationships or in your professional life.
My task is to ask the right questions, the ones that enable you to come closer to yourself, to what truly matters to you, and to how you might navigate the struggles along the way.
In this process, I draw on methods such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Schema Therapy, and Emotion-Focused Therapy (after Dr. Les Greenberg and Dr. Rhonda Goldman) as well as my experience working with neurodivergent children and adults, especially late-diagnosed women* and FLINTA persons.
For Couples of all shapes and forms: As an Emotion Focused Couples Therapist, I am here to help you understand each other more deeply. To interrupt the cycles of conflict that keep you apart and to notice what you both truly want, aside from criticism or withdrawal, explanation or silence, anger or the desperate search for connection while one of you is shut down. I am here to practice with you how to express what you really care about, and what really stings - in ways your partner can finally hear. Together, we move out of repetitive loops and escalation, finding a kinder understanding of one another's longings, wishes, and sensitivities. In essence, EFT supports both partners to show up authentically, without defense: to truly understand and hold each other, while still giving space for each of you to be your own person and to be seen in that truth. It is about reconnecting to the love and admiration that brought you together, gently untangling the hurt caused along the way as you tried to make life work.
Experience
2020 - today private practice for Mindfulness-based Systemic Counselling, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy for individuals and couples
2019 - 2023 Coaching for Parents of Kids on the Autism-Spectrum, Fundament Berlin-Brandenburg
2014 - 2022 supporting neurodivergent children and their families in difficult circumstances, with ADHD or on the Autism-Spectrum
Education
2024-2025 in depth training in EFT-C, Emotion Focused Couples Therapy after Dr. Les Greenberg with Prof. Dr. Rhonda Goldman, Dr. Serine Warwar at IEFT Berlin
2021 - 2023 training in Mindfulness-based Systemic Therapy, Schema-Therapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals and couples, SIA - Systemisches Institut für Achtsamkeit, Berlin
2019-2021 training in Mindfulness-based Systemic Counselling, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, SIA - Systemisches Institut für Achtsamkeit, Berlin
2016 M.Ed Art and Special Needs Education
2014 -2017 qualification in working with children and young adults on the Autism Spectrum Fundament Berlin-Brandenburg gGmbH
2013 BA Art and Special Needs Education
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
Individual Session
couple session
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