Christopher Hickman

I believe there are hidden reasons and meanings in the ways we think, behave, and feel. Additionally, I believe that the way every person thinks and acts is very specific to them. Therefore, when someone comes seeking therapy, treatment is not about simply correcting thoughts and behaviours, but rather about understanding them to discover the person’s individual truth. The aim of our sessions together will be to provide you the space to find what links your thoughts, behaviours, and emotions together.

I normally start with a FREE-OF-CHARGE FIRST INTERVIEW lasting around 40 minutes, to explore what you are looking for, what to expect from therapy, and to see if we are a good fit.

The framework of treatment will be discussed on an individual basis. A standard individual session is 80 Euro (for 50 minutes). I also offer the following types of therapy:

• couples therapy (160 Euro/session)
• family therapy (60 Euro/session per person)
• group therapy (60 Euro/session per person) for focus-groups or organisations

• Assisted two clinical psychologists with group coaching sessions for parents who had trouble raising children, at the institution “Aufmachen” in Vienna.

• Offered support to a fifteen-year-old boy for his computer game addiction in Vienna.

• Worked on the online counselling platform “7Cups”, providing emotional support to people all over the world.

• Provided psychosocial support to the homeless at the shelter “Caritas Zweite Gruft” in Vienna.

• Worked as an assistant at the Sigmund Freud University Outpatient Clinic in Vienna, conducting the registration, testing, noting of the first interview minutes, and therapy bookings for patients.

• Provided therapeutic support to the homeless at the facility “Caritas Haus Jaro” in Vienna.

• Working as a psychoanalyst under supervision at the Sigmund Freud University Outpatient Clinic and in private practice in Vienna.

• Working for the Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) at Chestnut Global Partners Europe, offering psychotherapy to employees of various companies.

• Registered as a therapist at Rise Above The Disorder (RAD), a public charity offering mental health care to disadvantaged individuals.

• BA in psychology from Webster University Vienna. Wrote Bachelor Thesis on the “Effects of Perfume on Conscious and Unconscious Emotions".

• Psychoanalytic training by Psychoanalytic Seminar Innsbruck (PSI) at Sigmund Freud University (SFU) Vienna.

• Psychotherapist in Training under Supervision (Psychoanalyst).

• Masters in Psychotherapy Science (Mag. pth.) at SFU Vienna. Wrote my Master Thesis on “Depression: A Unified Theory, Psychoanalysis, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy, and Existential Therapy Combined”.