Welcome to my blog!

I’ve been writing a blog in German since a few years. Doing this in English is new territory for me. Inevitably, I will make some mistakes… Never mind! This is a blog about therapeutic storytelling and other means that can make therapy and any kind of counseling and self-counseling quick, effective, and fun! I am convinced that therapy should be quick, and that it should be fun, both for the therapist and for the client. There should be a lot of things to laugh about and to find interesting. I am aware that life is not always fun and that most of my clients are more in the mood for crying than for laughing when we meet. I remember a 30 year old woman in the hospital who, according to the doctors, was going to die very soon. When she heard that I was a chaplain (whatever she imagined a chaplain to be like) she told me that she didn’t wish to be supported. I told her that I would love to invite her for a dance tonight, but that this didn’t seem possible in the state she was in at the moment. In hospital I don’t believe in making a solemn face and carrying the patient’s depression from one room to the next like a multi-resistant germ, and in my therapist’s office I wish to enjoy my work, and I hope that my clients enjoy our talk as well. As for the woman in hospital, we had a lot of fun together.

Not to mention that therapy and consultation are at their best if they are not only fun but also highly effective. I would like to share my stories about how to effectively reduce suffering and increase happiness. I would like to share them not only with my clients or patients or with those specialists who attend my training seminars but with you!