Katharina Maria Ippisch

Perhaps you know the feeling of losing yourself in a relationship.
Your needs and boundaries get blurry and you loose contact to your deeper inner knowing about who you truly are.
Or maybe you have a hard time to open up for love and always keep a save distance to your person - which also hurts really bad.
Maybe you are finding yourself caught in similar dynamics again and again, even with different people.

I support you in reconnecting with yourself, becoming more aware of your needs, fears and boundaries. I support you to find a way to trust in yourself again—so that you can experience yourself in relationships with greater clarity, freedom, and a stronger sense of being grounded in who you are.

If you have a hard time letting opening up to people and let love in, I'm really happy to support you to dive into that topic too.

Couples Counselling

In couples counselling, I support you in exploring and understanding the roots of recurring conflicts, relationship-related fears, or anger and in finding ways to reconnect and communicate with one another.

I help you develop a deeper understanding of each other, recognize relationship patterns that may have become stuck, and find new ways of relating that strengthen and nurture your connection.

This creates space for both of you—for your feelings, needs, and boundaries, and for exploring how you can shape your relationship in a more conscious, connected, and vibrant way.

My Approach

My work is trauma-sensitive and relationship-focused. At its heart are compassionate self-affirmation, empathy, and a respectful approach to our inner resistance, survival patterns, boundaries, and needs.

I aim to create a space where you can bring all of who you are and whatever is present for you—and gradually reconnect with your own feelings, lived experience, and inner knowing.

I'm also specialized in working with people during problematic break - ups in toxic relationships dynamics.

My Professional Background

My work is grounded in training and education in:

• Person-Centered Trauma Therapy based on the work of Carl Rogers
• Certified Life and Social Counselling / Psychosocial Counselling
• Trauma therapeutic approaches developed by Brigitte Koch-Kerstens, with a particular focus on compassionate self-affirmation and working with inner resistance
• Developmental, attachment, and relationship trauma and the survival strategies that can emerge from these experiences
• Shame and guilt in social and interpersonal contexts
• Connected Breathwork

My own experiences of personal growth and development also shape my approach and the way I meet and work with people.

I support you in taking yourself and your inner experience seriously again, trusting yourself more deeply, and experiencing relationships—with yourself and with others—with greater clarity, freedom, and authenticity.

2021 - ongoing: Working with Clients
2019 - 2023: Working with People, influenced by Mobbing in Schools & on Workplace

• Certified Person-Centered Trauma Therapist based on the work of Carl Rogers
• Certified Life and Social Counselling / Psychosocial Counselling
• Trauma therapeutic approaches developed by Brigitte Koch-Kerstens, with a particular focus on compassionate self-affirmation and working with inner resistance
• Developmental, attachment, and relationship trauma and the survival strategies that can emerge from these experiences
• Shame and guilt in social and interpersonal contexts
• Connected Breathwork