Lena Zagel

Current availability for appointments is from Monday to Friday, latest until 8pm, and availability on Saturday morning 9am-12pm. 

The sessions will take place online only either via Teams or Zoom.

I am available to work in English and/or German. 

If you have any questions or want to know any more details about anything specifically or are unsure. Please just send me a message and I will help answer any questions you may have. 

Do you find yourself wanting to belong and are not sure how to fit in? Do you feel stuck and are unsure of how to move forwards? Have you found your tribe or community yet? Do you feel like an outsider or disconnected from others? These might just scratch the surface of the questions that may come up, and they are all important in gaining awareness of what might be lying underneath.

I provide integrative counselling, drawing from Person Centered, CBT and Psychodynamic approach as well as using psychoeducation to aid in understanding. I also incorporate other techniques which might be useful in our work e.g. creativity, Polyvagal Theory and compassionate focused elements.

We all want to feel a sense of belonging and being part of something other than ourselves, which is engrained in the way we interact with the world around us. But we might be impacted by our past experiences like how we grew up, our relationships with others and impactful life events. These can influence our feelings, behaviors and thinking which might show up in different ways affecting our self-worth and how we experience the world around us such as feeling desperate, critical, and hopeless. Being able to find more self-awareness in our experiencing from the past and present, can help us to make informed decisions and choices for the future.

With you being the expert of your own experiencing, we will work collaboratively, in finding what would be supportive for you. I am compassionate and provide a non-judgmental space whilst also being able to challenge you and ask questions, supporting you in looking at alternative perspectives that might not have presented themselves yet. 

Being a European expat myself, I understand feelings of not truly belonging. I would like my clients to feel a sense of hope and agency in their life stories, and I hope to support you in finding that bright spot even when it might be difficult to see at first.

Sessions are online. They will be 50 minutes long on a weekly basis; however, we can review the frequency over the course of our work together.

I can offer long- and short-term sessions for clients, which means depending on your circumstances and needs we will look together at what would be most beneficial for you, by reviewing our work together regularly. 

Also I have a limited amount of low cost slots available, if you are interested please get in touch with me and we can talk more details. 

This session will be around 90 minutes long, however can be shorter dependent on what you bring to the session. Our first session will be used as an information gathering session to assess your current circumstances in more depth and what areas we might want to focus on in our work together. Here I will ask you some more in depth questions about what makes you seek out support, whether you have felt this way before, how it is currently impacting you, other people in your life etc.

This is also for you to see, whether l am a good fit and you feel comfortable with the way that I work. If that is the case after the first session, we can then fill out the necessary paperwork, and book a further session. If I am not the right fit for you, then that is also absolutely fine and I will signpost you other resources that might be helpful.

If you do not see a specific issue ticked below does not mean that I cannot work with you, so please do get in touch if you do want to work with me. And if I believe that I am not the right fit for your issues such as that there might be a better fit (e.g. a more specific type of therapy), I would also offer you some recommendations that I think would be helpful for you and signpost you to other resources.