Julia Leim

Who do you want to be in the depth of your heart? There is always a risk involved if we want to stop hiding and show up with our core. Showing ourselves with our longings, fears and dreams naturally implies being vulnerable. We have a choice: do we retreat and cut ourselves off from what we care about? Or do we keep trying to courageously stand up for what we love? I show to my clients that it is possible to be strong and vulnerable at the same time. That they can face their fears and grow from them. That they are held and safe, and it's okay to fail and make mistakes. That they can breathe, get up, move on. That they can be true to themselves AND connected to others. We are shaped by our experiences. Many times, those were discouraging rather than strengthening, separating rather than connecting. We have been rejected for things that were important to us. Our feelings have been too much, ignored or ridiculed. As a result, we have learned that it is best to do it on our own; to not expect too much; to not feel too much. Instead of accessing our feelings and acting on them, we try to hide them. Instead of getting help and sharing our pain, we act as if nothing is wrong. Instead of expressing our need for closeness, we hold back. Or we have become needy and believe we can't sustain our lives without certain people and things. Instead of being well connected to ourselves, we seek approval from outside. Instead of going our own way, we conform. When we learn again to feel what we feel and to let be what is there, it feels like coming home. We feel at ease in our bodies and can regulate stress naturally. We can take care of ourselves and set boundaries without being reckless. In a nutshell - we are connected to our self and to others.

seit 2011 tätig in eigener Praxis (bis 2016 als Coach, seit 2018 auch therapeutisch)

2024: AEDP - Accelerated Experiental Dynamic Psychotherapy, Advanced Training (Transforming Resistance, Steve Shapiro, AEDP sponsored live online course) 2023: AEDP – Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Advanced Training (Experience Teaches, Kate Haliday, AEDP Institute New York) und AEDP On Demand Kurse (Feeling Like A Man, Healing Relational Trauma I+II, Anxiety Regulation) 2022 - 2023: AEDP – Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Level 2 (Essential Skills, Annika Medbo, Kate Haliday, Benjamin Lipton, AEDP Institute New York) und AEDP On Demand Kurse (Making Good Use of Suffering, The Neurosience of Trauma and it's Healing) 2021: AEDP - Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Level 1 (Immersion; Jerry Lamagna, AEDP Institute New York) und On Demand Kurse (Intro to AEDP) 2020 – 2021: Weiterbildung zur Empathischen Coach (nach GFK, Institut Blickwinkel München) 2019 - 2020: GFK Einstiegsseminar (Frank Gaschler, Freie Kommunikation) und GFK Vertiefungsseminare (Vom Umgang mit alter Schuld; Das niedere Drama erkennen und beenden, Esther Gerdts + Sabine Fiedel, Empathy First), GFK Übungsgruppen 2015 – 2016: Weiterbildung zur Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie (ZFN München) 2014, 2015: Fortbildungen zum Thema Recovery in der Grinberg Methode (Grinberg Institut Spanien) 2007 - 2008, 2010 – 2013: Ausbildung zur Grinberg Praktikerin (VC Schule der Grinberg Methode, Berlin, heute Pantarhei) 2003: Dipl.-Kulturwirtin (Univ.), anschließend leitende Tätigkeiten in Vertrieb und Beratung (bis 2011)