Cheuk Yan LAU

My name is Niki, a Gestalt psychotherapist in Fachausbildung unter Lehrsupervision based in Vienna. I was born in Hong Kong and moved to Vienna nine years ago. Being an expat myself, I understand the challenges and emotions that come with starting a life in a new culture. My work focuses a lot on body awareness, which means paying attention to the connection between your mind and your body. I also bring creativity into therapy through art, music, dance and movement. Through more than ten years of psychotherapy education and personal experience, I have learned that healing is both powerful and vulnerable. Growing up as a special needs child with ADHD and reading disorder, I learned to find my own way of understanding and learning. It was not always easy, but it taught me that everyone has their own rhythm and strength. In therapy, we walk together to find your own way forward. In my earlier psychosocial work, I supported people in homeless shelters with Caritas, refugee programs with the Red Cross, and music-based stroke rehabilitation projects. My bachelor’s and master’s theses explored 'Death & Dying' and 'The end-of-life care', a topic close to my heart after my own experiences with loss. I support people dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship and family challenges, grief, and the feeling of being between different cultures or identities. Therapy is about you, about your choices, and about how you want your life to be.