Hello, I’m Joshua. I accompany people through difficult phases of life, at turning points, and in times of great responsibility. Especially when one’s own experience becomes a burden and familiar paths no longer lead onward.
Many of those who come have already understood and tried a great deal.
Familiar answers no longer suffice, and new ones haven’t yet arrived.
In conversation, it isn’t about finished answers. What shows itself, shows itself between us: in speaking, in noticing, in pausing. Not everything that gives orientation begins as a clear thought. Sometimes a next step appears only when the place from which you look at yourself and your life begins to shift.
What is helpful, we work out together.
present • attentive • learning • grounded
Development takes space and time. In a protected setting, I support you in listening to what is showing up, even when it is uncomfortable or not yet clear what it means. Sometimes that leads to clarity, sometimes to another question, sometimes to a next step.
A summary of what I offer and what I don’t is gathered here.
My path began in mathematics and led through shamanism as it is lived in Brazil and Peru, then through Gestalt therapy and psychology to cognitive behavioral therapy. These fields don’t answer the same questions, and that is precisely where their value lies for me.
What do we know about what humans experience? Psychology tries to answer that systematically, always learning, open to new findings. I currently follow the research on psychedelics and psychotherapy with particular interest.
Developed by Fritz and Laura Perls and Paul Goodman. At the center: what happens in the here and now, in the body, in the relationship. Not a theory about you, but what shows up between us. Awareness, contact, and dialogue are its most important tools.
In Brazil and Peru I worked with healing traditions that speak about being human differently than science does. For some questions this approach fits better than others. When it fits is something we clarify in conversation.
In therapy, the focus is often first on what was missing: protection, mirroring, holding, the room to simply be, belonging. Touching wounded parts is necessary, nourishing them just as much. And yet development does not end with tending old lack. It also asks for another view: on the mature person, who does not wait until everything is healed, but is willing to work with what remains unfinished. Recently a friend visited me whom I had met in Peru about eight years ago. Among other things, he works with systemic constellations. We sat together for a long time and came to an observation that occupies both of us: workshops and therapy can quickly open access to wounded parts. That is valuable, sometimes necessary. At the same time, the question arises how this touching and re-nourishing does not become a lasting orientation toward lack, and how the safety of such spaces can gradually be transferred into one’s own life.
May 3, 2026 · 8 min read
Years ago I wrote about what it means to remain a student of life. Listening, patience, trust, devotion. That still holds for me today. What I would add is the other movement alongside it, not as an opposite, but as its counterpart. Years ago I wrote a piece about what it means to remain a student of life. Listening, patience, trust, devotion to what shows itself. That was an important movement for me at the time, and it has stayed with me. When I read the text today, I read it warmly. With any luck, I will read this text the same way one day too: warmly, knowing it was true for a particular time.
May 6, 2026 · 9 min read
Gestalt therapy works with what shows up in the moment: in the body, in the relationship, here and now. It makes visible how we make contact, trains an immediate way of sensing, and gives our own aliveness a frame. Gestalt therapy was developed in the late 1940s by Fritz and Laura Perls and Paul Goodman. It belongs to the humanistic therapy traditions and works less with explanations about the past or personality, and more with what shows up in the moment: in the body, in the relationship, here and now.
July 26, 2022 · 2 min read
Accompaniment when familiar answers are no longer enough…
