Bernadette supports people in a solution-focused, collaborative, and trusting manner. She helps build self-esteem, decision-making skills, and personal growth at every stage of life. She guides people toward greater inner strength, solutions, and a zest for life.
Her solution-focused therapeutic style combines systemic and hypnosystemic methods and is based on mutual respect, cooperation, and collaboration, ensuring that each therapy session is individually tailored to the client’s needs. She helps clients release old emotional blocks, tap into their personal resources, and develop creative solutions for everyday life and challenges.
With her respectful, empathetic, and life-affirming approach, Bernadette creates a space where change and personal growth become possible.
Key Areas of Focus
- Stress & Exhaustion
- Psychosomatic complaints
- Mental Stress
- Self-Worth & Emotional Regulation
- Self-Esteem & Self-Confidence: Psychosomatic Symptoms
- Sleep, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Healthy Weight, Short-Term Therapy
- Conflict management
- Depression & burnout
- Anxiety disorders & panic
- Self-esteem & self-confidence
- Conflict Management; Relationship and Attachment Issues
- Life Crises & Transitional Crises
- Learning & Testing Issues
- Test anxiety, difficulty concentrating
- Biographical Work & Personal Development
- Women's Health Issues: Sleep Problems
- Emotional Training (TEK, Mental Training)
Education and Academic Training
- Licensed Psychotherapist, Systemic Family Therapy, LASF, Vienna Ministry of Health since 2008
- Continuing Education in Clinical Hypnosis According to Milton H. Erickson (MEG Austria)
- Ph.D. in Educational Science / Pedagogy, University of Vienna, 2002
- Degree in Education, Psychology, and School Pedagogy, University of Vienna
Work Experience and Teaching Experience
- Psychotherapist in private practice since 2008 (systemic family therapy)
- Certified Hypnotherapist & Hypno-Coach
- Faculty Member at FH Campus Wien (Communication & Developmental Psychology)
- Long-standing collaboration with medical institutions (including the “Healthy Brain” Neurological Center, Primary Care at the AKH University Hospital, FEM, and the Women’s Health Center)
- Many years of teaching and seminar instruction: FH Campus Wien, WIFI, Vienna General Hospital (AKH), Vienna City School Board
Areas of Focus and Specializations
- Hypnosystemic Concepts and Hypnosystemic Toolset
- Psychosomatics (Sleep, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Healthy Weight, Pain, Abdominal Hypnosis, Short-Term Therapy)
- Emotional Competence Training (TEK) – Stress, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Regulation
