Some things you can only say in your own words

Why therapy in English

Your German is good enough for work. That isn't the same thing.

You order coffee in German. You handle the Bürgeramt in German, mostly. You may run meetings in German. And then you sit down to explain why you haven't been sleeping, and you find that the words you need were never in the vocabulary you learned.

Shame, grief, dread, the specific texture of a bad childhood — these live in the language you were a child in. Translating them costs something. You end up describing the shape of the feeling instead of the feeling, and you notice yourself simplifying, choosing the sentence you can build rather than the one you mean.

Therapy is difficult enough without doing it at one remove from yourself. In English, you can be imprecise, circle back, contradict yourself, trail off mid-sentence — all the things that actually happen when someone tells the truth about their life.

And there is a practical side. Getting a Kassenplatz can take months. Private practices in English fill quickly. Online, that constraint largely disappears.

How it works

Three steps, no Krankenkasse

You read the profiles and choose your own therapist — nobody assigns one to you, and nothing goes through an insurer. You then pick a time from the hours they have open, shown in your own time zone, evenings and early mornings included. Finally you meet by video call, from home. No referral, no insurance paperwork, and no German required at any point.