Karina Lins - International psychologist Berlin

Welcome!

Moving abroad for one’s work isn’t unusual anymore. However, it is still a big challenge and therefore it is important to create a life where one is motivated to take on this radical change and its consequences.

Making a success of moving abroad depends on several factors: good communication within the family, and thorough preparation and advice before, during and after an assignment abroad. The accompanying family can make or break the experience of living abroad, and should always be involved.

I offer training and counselling specifically to this group of people. As an international psychologist I have a wide range of professional experience (intercultural training, couples therapy and individual counselling) with expatriates. I also have great expertise due to my practical experience combined with my scientific background.

Training

There is an enormous amount of self-help books and other advice on offer. But no book, however practice oriented it may be, can replace the experience of a real training situation. During professionally guided training sessions it is possible to learn more about yourself and broaden your skills and abilities.

Today we know that what is learned while having fun is better absorbed and remembered. In my training sessions I don’t strive for a scholastic or fact-ridden approach, but rather use a practical approach, where training combines newly acquired skills with one’s own life experience.

I will be happy to listen to your wishes and design a made-to-measure training program.

An extract of possible themes:

Relocation training
Re-entry training
Intercultural training
Communication training
Crisis intervention training
Teambuilding

Counselling

It’s a jungle out there!

There are many different schools of therapy (Psychoanalysis, Cognitive-Behavioural, Systemic, etc.), which one should you choose? It partly depends on what you expect: you could ask a therapist what school he/she represents. However, research has shown that this isn’t the deciding factor for therapeutic success – what matters just as much, if not more, is that the chemistry is good. It is very important that you feel comfortable with the therapist from the first session onwards. Listen to your instinct! If you don’t feel like you can trust him/her, you should look elsewhere.

I myself am a clinical psychologist and systemic psychotherapist. As such I’m specialised in couples and family counselling. I work along the code of ethics laid down for psychologists. This means, amongst others, strict confidentiality, respect for each individual and that I follow current research in my field.

Couple sessions: 60 min, 100 EUR.

Individual sessions: 50 min, 85 EUR.

What’s on

Please check back with us after the summer.

Contact & about me

As a native Dane, born 1975, I grew up in Belgium and finished school there. I studied as a psychologist and systemic family therapist at Universities in Connecticut (USA), Colchester (UK), Brussels and Leuven (BE).

The subject of my Master Thesis was: “Personality and intercultural adjustment: Research on links between personality differences and intercultural adjustment, measured with the EQ-I and MPQ”.

After having lived in Kiev with my husband and our two sons for a few years, we moved to Berlin in January 2008, where I studied communications training at the Humboldt University (artop).

I offer training and counselling in the following languages:

English
German
Danish
Dutch

I’m a member of BPD, DGSF and SIETAR.

Telephone: + 49.30.914.259.31 (between 9.30 – 11.30, except at WE)

Mobile: + 49.151.5736.1121 E-Mail: kl@karinalins.com

Christburger Str. 4 (c/o artop), 10405 Berlin