Philosophy
Healing is a process that belongs to the body.
The therapist’s task is to support and stimulate the patient’s self-healing mechanisms as well as possible.
It is the body’s answer to the therapeutic stimulus that heals.
What the body’s answer means
Not what happens during the session on the couch. What is meant are the reactions in the days and weeks that follow.
A treatment sets a stimulus. What comes of it is for your body to decide – and it needs time for that. Some things show themselves straight after the session, others the next morning, some only after two weeks. In judging a treatment, then, it is not the moment on the couch that counts, but what happens in the days afterwards.
That also explains why the number of appointments needed cannot be fixed in advance. It depends on how your body answers.
A good therapist is always a good friend too
That is my guiding principle, and it is meant literally.
A friend listens before judging. He says openly what he sees, even when it is uncomfortable. And he takes his time. That is exactly what matters to me in treatment – to listen before I judge, to say openly what I find, and to have the time for it.
The cause rather than the symptom
Complaints do not always show themselves where they arise. That is why I first build up an overall view through the case history and the examination before I treat – and why I sometimes ask about things that at first sight have nothing to do with your complaints.
Working as a whole means exactly that to me: looking at the person and not only at the spot that hurts.
Where self-healing reaches its limits
The powers of self-healing are not a cure-all. Not every complaint can be treated this way, and not every one belongs in my practice.
If I have the impression that a medical examination is needed, I tell you so. My original profession as a physiotherapist keeps me close to medical diagnosis in any case.
The methods that follow from this are set out under Treatments. My background and my training are gathered under About me.