Overview of Psychotherapy and Coaching Services
- Affective Disorders: Depression – mild and moderate depression, bipolar disorder, as well as feelings of low mood and lack of drive during mild depressive episodes, and burnout syndrome. Support is provided for acute depressive episodes as well as recurring depressive phases, addressing lack of motivation, sadness, loss of interest, and emotional strain.
- Anxiety Disorders: Support for generalized anxiety and panic attacks. The goal is to understand the fears, develop coping strategies, and improve quality of life.
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Support following stressful or traumatic experiences, including processing memories and emotions, stabilizing, and strengthening resilience.
- Adjustment and Stress-Related Disorders: Support for stress reactions, overload, or difficulties adjusting after challenging life events.
- Personality Disorders: Support for deeply ingrained patterns of thinking, feeling, and behaving, with the goal of developing new coping strategies and behavioral options.
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (OCD): Support in managing intrusive thoughts and compulsive behaviors, aiming to improve daily functioning and overall quality of life.
- Somatic Disorders with Psychological Strain: Support for physical complaints that are influenced or exacerbated by psychological factors, including strategies for stress management and activation of personal resources.
- Eating Disorders: Treatment of Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge-Eating Disorder. Support focuses on dealing with eating behaviors, body perception, and underlying emotional patterns.
In her work with individuals and couples, Asli Demirel utilizes Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT). This approach encourages clients to engage directly with their own emotions, experience them consciously, and recognize the underlying emotional patterns. In this way, old emotional blockages can be released, and healthy ways of responding and behaving can be developed.
Emotion-Focused Couples Therapy helps partners better understand conflicts, rebuild closeness, and consciously shape their relationship. A key factor for success is that both partners participate voluntarily and are willing to actively work on the relationship. Sessions usually take place together, though in some cases it can be helpful to address certain issues in individual sessions first.
Couples often seek therapy when they experience acute or long-standing conflicts that repeatedly manifest in recurring patterns. These patterns lead to negative behaviors and hurtful emotions being repeated, trapping the couple in a rigid cycle.
Throughout therapy, these patterns become visible. Partners come to recognize the emotions and needs behind their recurring reactions and understand how their own feelings impact their partner’s behavior.
This creates space for change: partners develop greater awareness and sensitivity-both toward themselves and each other. Together with Asli Demirel, couples explore new perspectives, values, and practical strategies to implement them in daily life. Step by step, this fosters a healthy, mindful, and connected relationship, built on understanding, respect, and emotional closeness.
Asli Demirel also offers professional support for individuals without a psychological diagnosis. She assists people during life crises, decision-making difficulties, or general challenges.
Typical topics include:
- Life changes and reorientation
- Decision-making
- Conflicts in everyday life or at work
- »Empty Nest« syndrome – when adult children no longer live at home
- Personal development
- Counseling and coaching
By multimodal stress management, Asli Demirel refers to a comprehensive approach that combines various methods to identify, reduce, and manage stress more effectively over the long term. The program is based on her own developed concept and is tailored individually to the needs of each participant.
How multimodal stress management works:
- Identify and define stress: First, the development of stress and its effects on the body and mind are explained. Assess stress levels: Each participant’s individual stress level is analyzed.
- Identify influencing factors: Personal, professional, and social factors that contribute to stress are examined.
- Apply stress management techniques: Practical methods such as mindfulness exercises, progressive muscle relaxation, autogenic training, breath meditation, and other techniques help reduce acute stress.
- Develop long-term strategies: Individual strategies support participants in managing stress more effectively in their daily lives over the long term.
For individuals, Asli Demirel offers coaching and training sessions; for companies, she provides workshops, seminars, and team programs—always practical, customizable, and designed for lasting impact.
The harmonious combination of water and colors, along with the resulting creative works, provides a unique access to participants’ emotions.
Watercolor painting can be particularly helpful for individuals experiencing trauma-related disorders, depression, or emotional blockages, allowing emotions to be expressed, processed, and self-awareness to be strengthened.
In art therapy, Asli Demirel connects participants’ vulnerable emotional areas, creativity, and emotional life through drawing, painting, and other creative activities, combined with therapeutic guidance. At the same time, this form of therapy allows inner processes and the sensitive, emotional side to be expressed on paper, enabling participants to observe their feelings and themselves from a certain distance. This is the first step toward better understanding and integrating emotions.
The creative process has a calming effect, supports being fully present in the moment, and enhances mindfulness. Art makes visible feelings that are often difficult to express in words. In this way, participants can improve their self-awareness and gain emotional clarity.
Through art therapy, participants implement their own ideas, which not only strengthens self-confidence but also fosters creativity and personal competence. Especially after stressful experiences, studies have shown that artistic work can help release emotional tension.
Sessions take place in small groups in her studio and are flexibly adapted to the pace and needs of the participants.