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Mary Catherine McKenzie
(she/her)
Psychologist & Counsellor
Available for new clients
As an English speaking online Psychologist -Counsellor, with over 20 years experience, am looking forward to working cooperatively with you in the face of life challenges, motivating, & maximising your overall wellbeing.
I specialize in:
At a glance
Last active
Experienced on It's ComplicatedOver 1 year on It's Complicated
Offers free 15 minute introductory callThis provider offers a free introductory call
Note from Mary CatherineMatching program; EAP; and, direct client, appointment bookings available.
Usually responds within 2 hours
About me
-Appointments available Online now, for: Anxiety, Stress, OCD, Grief & Loss, Trauma, Burnout, Chronic pain, Expat counselling, Eating disorders, Career, Psychosomatic Illnesses, Self-confidence, Personal development, Life coaching, and much more..
-Identifying your thoughts, feelings and behaviors, to empathically discover your intricacies, uncover hidden strengths, and helping you learn to thrive, are my core concerns for realizing your potential.
-Exploring your dilemma/s will be undertaken in a non-judgemental and respectful way.
-Enabling you to tell your story is essential, along with helping you to identify in which ways you need to approach problems, differently.
-Our work, in tandem, will help you comprehensively pinpoint unhelpful thinking styles and behaviors, successfully challenge them, and evolve with more adaptive ways of coping.
-Goal setting is an integral part of this.
Having travelled extensively in Europe, and beyond -lived in Switzerland, Netherlands, and Croatia- then in Germany for over 8 years (Berlin, Kiel, etc) and having travelled to USA, Denmark, Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Poland, NZ, England, Scotland, Rep. Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales) and completion of an additional Masters programme degree in intercultural studies (clinical health focus Thesis), I fully recognise the challenges- both positive and difficult- in functioning in a different country to one's origins.
-I will support you well, as an expat.
Please kindly note: This is not an emergency counselling service. Emergency service contact numbers for Germany: 112; Telefonseelsorge: 0800 1110111/0800 1110222, and other free contacts (please locate a directory listing eg online)
Published research: 1/Advanced thinking on Trauma: Victims of
Crime in the Mental Health Context; 2/The Importance of incorporating Risk Management & assessing... Traits during Job Recruitment Interviews, Performance Appraisals, and Post-critical Incidents. (Peercite Journal MH)+
I speak:
English
Location:
24582 Bordesholm, Germany
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Approach
Treatment Approaches
CBT: Cognitive behavioral therapyRecommended for those looking for practical support and accountability to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
Narrative therapyRecommended for those who want to rewrite the way they view their life story and feel more empowered in their personal journey.
Trauma Informed CareRecommended for those who have experienced trauma and need a safe, supportive space to heal at their own pace.
-My counselling, and coaching, style is inspired by an integrative approach including emphasis on humanistic and existential, narrative, and motivational contexts, along with emotion-focussed therapy (EFT) and, cognitive-behaviorally focussed (CBT, and many issue-specific variants of) processes.
-Together, we will explore your capacity to develop your skills- healthily, and enhance emotional and psychological wellbeing, coping resilience, and quality of life functioning.
-A sense of purpose, and meaning in life, the experience of health, capacity to handle stress, and feelings of self-satisfaction, are necessary to feel fulfilled.
-So too, your strengthened self-worth, self-esteem, self-acceptance, and self-efficacy.
I am enthusiastic about helping you to develop your ability to achieve this strengthening, which is advantageous in achieving long-term rewarding self-development.
Ultimately, I value each client as an unique individual and collaborate with them in an individualised way.
Member of IAAP.....
Availability outside stated appointment times upon request.
My website link: https://marymckenzie395.wixsite.com/my-site-2
Experience
28 years in practiceOver 1 year at It's Complicated
-Private practice (2000 onward): Psychologist & psychological counselling (+ health education):extensive experience in counselling clients: victims of crime- trauma: domestic violence, sexual assault, survivors childhood sexual abuse; toxic relationships; grief & loss; chronic pain; ADHD; eating disorders; depression; anxiety; stress; panic attacks; PTSD; OCD; burnout; EAP: Employment Assistance Programmes/Workplace Mental Health Programs; mva victims; coercive control... IC EAP; Matching
-Clinician/health educator (Psychologist) public health
-Psychologist registration programme (successful)
-Youth counsellor
-Clinical health work with elderly (in a 3-tiered system)
-previous relevant (childcare; customer service; etc)
Published research article, included in NICE guidelines (Pubmed, Wiley..): DOI:10.1080/09595230100100624
2024 & 2025 Published Peercite Journal MH
Info articles: Anxiety & Guilt; Expats; Pain: www.linkedin.com/posts/mary-catherine-mckenzie-7547502ab
Education
-M.A. in Developmental Psychopathology
-M.A. ICM (with Thesis: clinical indicators for healthcare professionals) Berlin
-Psychologists' Registration programme (successful)
-B. Nursing
-B.A. (Psychology, soc)
-& multiple counselling related diplomas awarded (incl. Dip.Clin. Hypnotherapy, Dip.Psych)
2024: DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) ExL complete training
2025: Somatic approaches in Therapy: 'Felt sense'; Polyvagal theory
2024 & 2025: Law & Mental Health Clin:Truth & Falsehoods in Memory; APA; Trauma; T4; Stalking; Forensic; Police; Persy; Stigma; ACE; Ethics; Risk; Cultural; Clin Supervision. 21 Certs oC.
-2024: JCI: Diagnostic safety-Multidisciplinary
-2024: Gestalt Sensory Awareness; pt meta. psychotherapy
Quality Improvement: a Key to Health Systems' Strengthening (UKHD- Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg);+ German university certs (human rights, law): Humboldt, & Freie, Universities, Berlin (+ Goethe Institüt-German).
Continuous training & professional development in psychology
ZAB & EQAC all degrees' comparability
Cost
Free 15 minute introductory call
Individual Session
€80 (60 minutes)
Insurances
Private Pay
At a glance
Last active
Experienced on It's ComplicatedOver 1 year on It's Complicated
Offers free 15 minute introductory callThis provider offers a free introductory call
Note from Mary CatherineMatching program; EAP; and, direct client, appointment bookings available.
Usually responds within 2 hours
Explore more
My publications
Advanced Thinking on Trauma: Victims of Crime in the Mental Health Contexthttps://doi.org/10.61641/pjmh.2024.2.S1.606-612
Aftercare attendance and post-treatment functioning of severely substance dependent residential treatment clients C Sannibale 1, P Hurkett, E van den DOI: 10.1080/09595230100100624
The Importance of incorporating Risk Management and assessing for Perilous Traits during Job Recruitment Interviews Performance Appraisals IncidentsPeercite Journal of Mental Health
Next available: May 9