Stefan Eckardt

Stefan Eckardt specialises in Systemic Counselling and Psychotherapy, a well-established, academically grounded approach practised internationally within therapy and social care.

Its coherent focus on the relationships that shape people’s lives often leads to the approach being called Family Therapy, though it is equally applicable to individuals and to groups beyond families - for example workplace teams or interest groups.

The UK-based Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice explains that Family Therapy helps people in close relationships support one another, enabling family members, couples and others who care about each other to express and explore difficult thoughts and emotions safely, understand each other’s experiences and views, appreciate one another’s needs, build on strengths, and make useful changes in relationships and everyday life.

Systemic Counselling and Psychotherapy can be used to explore a wide range of problems and symptoms, yet no list can capture someone’s experience exactly. Stefan acknowledges that each person, their difficulties, and their solutions are unique. Previous clients have worked on issues such as addiction, self-harm, eating disorders, anxiety, depression, trauma, coaching, health-related issues, identity, culture, spirituality, relationships, sexuality, parenting, stress at work and home, and challenges involving authorities such as Child & Family Social Services.