Birgit Baumann
Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie in Bochum – a state-licensed practitioner for psychotherapy. For over twenty years I have accompanied individuals and couples in understanding recurring patterns and working to change them.
In brief
Birgit Baumann is a Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie with her own private practice in Bochum. In her work with couples she concentrates on schema-based couples therapy: an approach that traces recurring relationship patterns back to early formative experiences and works on changing those patterns in everyday life.
She works with couples and individuals in German and English, in the practice in Bochum and online. The catchment area includes Bochum, Herne, Witten, Essen and Dortmund.
Qualifications
Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie
Sectoral licence to practise psychotherapy under German law, health authority Dortmund
Psychology studies
Ruhr University Bochum
Schema therapist
HPA Heilpraktiker Academy and teaching institute for psychotherapy, Dr. Anke Schmiedeberg
Certified psychological counsellor
Association of Independent Psychologists and Counsellors (VfP)
Katathym Imaginative Psychotherapy (KIP)
Advanced training with Prof. Leonie Kästele
Active imagination and analytical psychology
C. G. Jung Institute, Cologne
Systemic master coach
Training with Marcus Bergfelder, Dortmund
PSI competence counsellor
Personality diagnostics after Julius Kuhl, IMPART Institute Osnabrück
Career
Private practice in Bochum
Couples therapy, psychotherapy and psychological counselling – in person and online
Psychiatric institutions and counselling centres
Many years of psychological work before opening her own practice
HR and organisational development
Leadership role in a mid-sized company, later global leadership trainer and coach
Nun Center, Cairo
Part of the international team at the holistic therapy centre
Own practice founded in 2002
Psychological counselling and complementary work on the Red Sea
Theatre and directing
Including Schauspielhaus Bochum, prinz-regent-theater and Starlight Express Bochum
How I came to this work
I began in counselling rather than therapy. An early question for me was this: people often know exactly what they want to do differently – and still do not do it. That gap between insight and behaviour led me to schema therapy.
Schema therapy accounts for why we react in familiar situations as though we were fifteen again. In relationships this shows especially clearly: two adults are having an argument that is considerably older than their relationship.
Over the years I have centred my work with couples more and more around this. Not as a technique but as a direction of attention: change becomes possible once both people can see which pattern is at work between them.
Alongside couples therapy I work with individuals. If you are looking for support on your own, you will find the matching offer under Psychotherapie Bochum.
For concerns that call not for therapy but for clarification and orientation, there is Psychologische Beratung Bochum – for instance around career decisions or periods of transition.
The next step
Get to know me without any commitment
In the free initial consultation we clarify what is going on for you and whether working together feels like a fit.