Peer Psychotherapy
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This is my own model of psychotherapy. Peer Psychotherapy is a mix between psychotherapy and peer support and addresses the otherwise unchecked power imbalances in therapeutic work. In Peer Psychotherapy I use both my knowledge of, trainings in, and experience from psychotherapeutic work and from peer support work.
In Peer Psychotherapy I use my lived experience expertise as a valuable source of knowledge and understanding. An expertise I have reflected a lot on. I also use all my knowledge and skills of how to facilitate therapeutic growth and learning and how to address and process stress and trauma, as well as self-concepts and worldviews.
I have been “out” about my lived experience for a long time. The more I have addressed, processed and integrated my lived experience, the more I have shared about it with the world. The value of living openly as myself and owning my story has been tremendous and it has had a great impact on what used to be strong tendencies towards shame and self-blame. I know it is not everyone’s wish to be open about your story. And you do not have to be that, of course, as long as you are open with yourself about it.
In Peer Psychotherapy I also use my extensive experience with working with experiential learning, with animal and nature assisted therapy, and mindfulness, together with expressive arts and body based approaches. All trauma informed of course.
Peer Psychotherapy means we meet as equals, as peers, it is a very relational as well as ecological form of therapy. It is still you who are in the center of the sessions and it is still your psychotherapy. You will notice you are more in charge than you would be in traditional psychotherapy, at the same time as I am more present.
I offer Peer Psychotherapy on site and online.
Contact me if you want to try Peer Psychotherapy out, or if you just want to know more about it for the moment.
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Services
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– Inviting the more than human world into your growth processes
As an ecotherapist, psychotherapist (in training), mindfulness instructor and growth/learning facilitator within the ecological tradition (ecopsychology, ecotherapy, nature assisted/based interventions, wild/wilderness intervention, green care etc.) – I invite the more than human world to be part of the growth and therapeutic processes taking place in sessions, workshops, and retreats, that I facilitate.
I work integratively, in more than one way. I work with nature and animal assisted interventions, I work with expressive arts, movement-based interventions, mindfulness, and I use my own lived experience expertise and concpets and programs I have developed. In psychotherapy, my own training and coming licensure is in Transactional Analysis (TA), but I also have a yearlong training in person-centered psychotherapy, and shorter trainings in other modalities. Together with my own long psychotherapy (which was psychodynamic/psychoanalytical), as well as other shorter therapies and my added trainings in trauma sensitive mindfulness, expressive arts, other mindfulness, expressive and learning based courses, peer support trainings + my academic training in cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, history of ideas and science, literature and language, agricultural science, and my own art training – I am truly multimodal in all that I do (for my full background, check my CV out).
I would, despite these diverse trainings and educations, argue that my own experiences from my own growth journey is my most important “training”.
Ecotherapy & Rewilding Therapy
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ECOTHERAPY – WILD THERAPY – REWILDING THERAPY
As a psychotherapist I use an ecological approach. I use my experience and knowledge of working experientially, outdoors and with "the more than human" beings, often being part of the process. I also use my knowledge as a student of cognitive science and psychology (and my knowledge and experience from my other studies, of course). I also use my own lived experience and the learning and experience I have gained, having worked through my severe childhood traumas and ensuing dissociation.
I am of course under supervision, and I continue my own personal therapy as it is in alignment with how I see my own responsibility as a psychotherapist and the importance of continuing to tend to myself and my own learning and growth journey.
As a psychotherapist I also use the knowledge and experience I have gained through my own journey with using expressive arts and writing, as well as my studies of arts and expressive arts and studies in literature and language. I also use my experience with, and formal trainings in mindfulness and especially in trauma sensitive mindfulness.
Sessions can be given both in English and in Swedish.
Background and Learning Path
I have often been told I should become a psychotherapist... But I have always hesitated. Me? Am I not too crazy? Too wild? Too different?
When I started to write about my own growth journey, I found people were really interested and wanted more of what I shared. So. Here I am, now having taken different psychotherapy trainings (and continue to train). You can see in my CV what trainings I have taken. Taking these trainings and synthesizing what they have taught me with what I have discovered myself means I have moved from sharing what has helped me - to supporting you on your journey.
With my formal trainings in psychotherapy and my more than 12 years of experience as a growth facilitator, working with equine assisted therapy, animal assisted therapy, nature assisted therapy, rewilding interventions, using trauma sensitive mindfulness, experiential learning, etc. I feel I have a great deal to offer. Adding to that I have 5 years of experience in educating about all of this, supervising and mentoring, as well as being part of smaller research projects and collaborative EU projects.
So you see, have loads of both formal training and practical experience within my field of work. Yet, it is true that I have not taken the traditional route. I am not a psychologist, I am not a psychiatrist (or even a psychiatric nurse), I am not a social worker. I am not even a fully licensed psychotherapist from any existing psychotherapy school.
And truth to be told, I am happy I am none of that. Because it means I am not marinated in traditional views of doing things. In fact, what I offer often goes against traditional ways of doing things.
What I have done is find and build my own path and education, which includes rather a lot of different formal trainings. But as a critical thinker, I can tell you it has been anything but a linear journey for me. I think that this will serve you as a client well. It means I have not uncritically devoured any kind of teaching, it means I have tested it, experimented with it, thought about it, evaluated it and chosen what bits and parts that align with me and what I believe in about humanity and human growth and healing (or wholing as I prefer to call it). It means I am an active learner, and will always be.
You can read more about my own model of psychotherapy here: Peer Psychotherapy.
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Fees
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I work at a flat fee of 75 euro per hour, for individual sessions, in person or online. See my price philosophy below for elaborations on this.
These are some of my services:
- Psychotherapy, Ecotherapy, Peer Psychotherapy & Rewilding Therapy
I am a psychotherapy trainee, and work under supervision. - Equine assisted (therapy, learning, mindfulness etc.)
- Supervision/mentoring (e.g. rewilding therapy, ecotherapy, equine assisted work)
- Lived Experience Expertise/Consulting/Education (e.g. Early childhood trauma, CSA; CSE, dissociation)
Contact me for prices for groups, more intensive work (several sessions in a short amount of time, e.g.). Or for other more individualized or bespoke work. You can also hire me as a facilitator for your retreats, workshops etc. Check out my service page.
About my Price Philosophy
In my offer to and in our final agreement with you I will have considered if I have expenses (e.g. travels to make), if I have another person on the team, or horses e.g., I will also have considered you, and your ability to pay. You can always approach me to discuss the price. We can negotiate it, every person has a particular situation, and therefore I think flexibility is needed. I do, however, think everyone needs to pay something. What is given away for free, or at too low cost, will not be valued, and it is not supporting engagement, for anyone. Involved. At least not in this capitalistic system that we all live in. And well, I need to pay my bills, and I don't have time to redo the whole economic system, the one we both live in ;-) - so there will be some sort of payment involved. Mutually agreed upon. And when we have agreed, we make a contract, that works for both of us (or all of us).
Are you looking for another way to do psychotherapy than to sit slightly opposite or side-by-side with a therapist, indoors, mostly talking? I offer psychotherapy with an ecological and integrative approach (incorporating other modalities such as mindfulness, expressive arts, movement-based interventions). In person, or online. 
Are you looking for a growth tool that is not psychotherapy, but still can take you deeper within yourself, to listen to and to support yourself. To practice self-awareness, self-compassion, resourcing, and grounding? Then Eco-Mindfulness and "Wild-at-Heart-ness" could be for you.
Are you looking for psychotherapy that is more equal? Where we look at power dynamics in your life? And has relationality at its core? In Peer Psychotherapy we work with both psychotherpeutic and intentional peer support tools.
