Experienced counselor in Bangkok & Pattaya, Thailand • (…)

An overview about issues and problems I helped clients to solve so far (as per 2020), and about the focus areas of my work in psychotherapy and counseling, hypnotherapy and coaching.
For the sake of completeness it is to be mentioned that for success experiences like these, continuous sessions till the enduring absence of related symptoms for a certain amount of time are required.

A

• Abuse / Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Trauma Therapy & regeneration
• Addiction or Addictive Behavior (drugs, alcohol, porn, sex, sweets, computer games, Internet,...)
• Addictive relationships (feeling unable to separate)
• Adipositas (eating addiction, problems losing weight,..)
• ADS / ADHS (Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome)
• Aggression (eruptive aggression in relationships or in social environment, violent behavior, auto aggression,..)
• Alcoholism
• Ageing-related problems (retirement, symptoms of old age, dementia,..) - Gerontotherapy / support and chaperonage of senior people
• Ambivalence - difficult decisions
• Anxiety / Fear (social anxiety / phobias, object-related phobias like arachnophobia, fear of bugs, birds, dogs, burglars, water, fear of flying), situative phobias like fear of gatherings, stage fright / presentation anxiety / speech anxiety, agoraphobia, fear of war,..)
• Anorexia Nervosa
• Appetence disorders ('sexual anorexia')
• Artists: reflexion of their work, orientation, support, coaching
• Asperger's Syndrome
• Affairs / external relationships
• Autistic Disorders



B

• Display of Behavioral problems / abnormalities of behavior of children or teenagers
• Bicultural Relationships and related challenges and issues (emphasis on relations between Western and Asian or South American partners in my work)
• Bipolar Disorders ('manic depressive disorder')
• Blushing / Erythrophobia
• Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) / Body Image Disturbance
• Borderline Personality Disorder (therapeutic support for persons concerned, relatives and partners)
• Bulimia nervosa
• Setting Boundaries (e.g. against parents, against work, against relatives, friends, colleagues etc.; troubles distancing oneself)
• Bullying / Mobbing / Stalking
• Burnout



C

• Cancer - psychological consequences and interdependencies, supporting self-healing capabilities
• CFS - Chronical Fatigue Syndrome
• Childbirth - psychological load prior and after birth
• Childlessness / Fertility issues
• Children and Teenagers: pedagogic problems, learning problems, behavioral problems,..
• Cleptomania, Shoplifting
• Climax - not reaching orgasm
• Coaching (individual coaching, organizational coaching)
• Commitment Phobia
• Company building and management - structuring, team organization, team issues, problems with command structure, financial organization, market orientation,..)
• Computer or Internet Addiction
• Constellations (Family Constellations, Systemic Constellations, Relationship Constellations,..)
• Co-Dependency (see addictions)
• Cultural uprooting after expatriation or migration



D

• Death of Relationship Partner or Relatives
• Decision making Issues (privately, job-related)
• Depression - all forms
• Serious Disease (or Illness of Partner, Relatives,..)
• Domestic Violence (see aggression)
• Don Juanism
• Drug Withdrawal support (all kinds of drugs: cannabis, cocaine, heroine, opium, extacy, amphetamines, medical drug addictions etc.)
• Dysmorphophobia (Body dysmorphic disorder / BDD)



E

• Education-related issues (losing focus during studies or further education, decisions about future focus of work, learning difficulties, ,..)
• EDNOS (a specific form of eating disorder)
• Erectile Dysfunction (psychological factors, not reaching climax etc.)
• Erythrophobia / Blushing
• Eating Disorders of all kinds (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, adipositas, EDNOS,..)
• Expatriation / Transmigration - reflexion, preparation, coaching, resolving issues of adaptation
• External Relationships / flings / affairs



F

• Family burdens (historic or current ones)
• Family Constellations (see Constellations)
• Fatigue (see sleeping disorders, CFS Chronical Fatigue Syndrome, Burnout)
• Fertility issues / Childlessness
• Fibromyalgia
• Fear or Worries about the Future



G

• Gambling, addictive
• Genetic defects (support of concerned persons and their relatives)
• Gerontopsychotherapy (see ageing-related issues)



H

• Loss of Hair (psychosomatic)
• Hate or Aggression against other persons, groups etc.
• Heart surgery - psychological support before surgery and during healing process
• Heart problems (psychosomatic) - tachycardia, panic attacks, heart phobia,..
• Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP) / Sensory Processing Sensitivity
• Hyperactivity Syndrome / Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Syndrome (ADS / ADHS)



I-L

• Serious Illness (or diseases of partners, relatives,..)
• Intercultural relationships (see bicultural relationships)
• Internet or Computer Addiction
• Jealousy
• Direction in Life
• Feelings of emptiness, depression, despair, questioning sense of life
• Learning problems of Children, Teenagers, Students and Adults
• Libido, lack of or too high
• Lying, obsessive
• Lack of sexual drive, motivation for work,..



M

• Marriage Counseling
• Masochism, Sadism / BDSM
• Manic Depressive Disorder (see bipolar disorder)
• Medication Addiction
• Messies / Messie Syndrome
• Mobbing / Stalking / Bullying
• Multicultural relationships (see bicultural relationships)



N, O

• Nightmares - violent dreams, anxiety or panic attacks during sleep,..
• Obsessive-Compulsive disorders (compulsion to masturbate, repetition compulsion, compulsion to control, obsessional thoughts and fears (like to be a pedophile, homosexual, to turn violent, fear being infected with HIV/AIDS etc.)
• Online Addiction / Internet Addiction
• Orgasm-related issues (no orgasm, premature ejaculation, difficulties reaching orgasm etc.)
• Overload / Overstress (see Burnout)



P-R

• Pair Therapy (very wide spectrum of topics and potential issues, see relationship issues)
• Pedophilia (therapeutic support and reflexion)
• Panic Attacks / Panic Disorders
• looking for a Partner - support establishing relationships
• Pedagogic Issues
• Phobias (see Anxiety)
• Porn Addiction (see also : addiction)
• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Trauma Therapy & regeneration
• Premature ejaculation
• Presentation Anxiety / Stage Fright (tremor, sweating or freezing in social situations, while eating or drinking, during presentations, prior to performances)
• Professional Reorientation - clarification, chaperonage and support
• Psychosis
• Psychosomatic Disorders (gastro-intestinal diseases, susceptibility for infects, gastric ulcer, weak auto-immune system, skin diseases, respiratory problems,..)
• Digestion of failed or backfiring psychotherapies
• Quest for Meaning
• Rage Attacks (see Aggression)
• Relationship Issues (decisions related to the relationship, difficulties to find a partner, cheating, estrangement (loss of love), communication issues,..
• Relatives - chronic issues and problems with relatives or friends



S

• Sadism, Masochism / BDSM
• Schizophrenia spectrum disorder (aggrieved party and relatives)
• Sleeping Disorders (problems falling asleep, sleeping through the night, nightmares,..)
• Shyness and Social Anxiety / Social Phobia
• Pregnancy-related worries (like thinking about abortion, genetic diseases, disabilities, health risks,..)
• Excessive Sweating (Hyperhidrosis) in social situations
• Sects: pullout process (therapeutic support of members and relatives)
• Self Organisation (time management, maintaining a structured day, task overload,..)
• Self-Esteem / Self-Confidence issues
• Sensory Processing Sensitivity / Highly Sensitive Persons (HSP)
• Self-injurious Behavior
• Separation - chaponage of couples considering a separation, support of individual persons after painful separation
• Sexual Violence, Sexual Abuse
• Loss of Sexual Appetite
• Sexual Orientation (dealing with bisexuality, homosexuality, transsexualism and other gender identity issues)
• Sexual Disorders, unfulfilled needs, orgasmic issues, sexual problems in relationship,..
• Shopping Addiction
• Shoplifting / Cleptomania
• Skin Diseases (psychosomatic)
• Somatoform Disorders and Anxieties (like fear of certain infections, cancer, HIV,..)
• Social Anxiety, social insecurities
• Speech Anxiety / Presentation Anxiety
• Stage Fright / Presentation Anxiety (tremor, sweating or freezing in social situations, while eating or drinking, during presentations, prior to performances)
• Stalking / Mobbing / Bullying
• Addiction (drug addiction, medication addiction, alcoholism, nicotine addiction, sex addiction, porn addiction etc. - affected persons and relatives
• Systemic Constellations (z.B. Family Constellations, Systemic Constellations, Relationship Constellations,..)
  

  T

• Teenagers and Children: pedagogic problems, learning problems, behavioral problems,..
• Transplantations: dealing with mental burden & support of the integration of the new organ
• Transsexuality / Transgender issues
• Traumata (impacts of sexual abuse, torture and war experiences)
• Tremor (connected to social anxiety or shyness, or certain events like during performances)
• Transmigration / Expatriation - reflexion, preparation, coaching, resolving issues of adaptation
• Sadness and Unhappiness - clarification and remedy of attacks (or chronic) sadness, with or without definable cause
• Tremor in social situations (like during holding drinking glasses, signing, in groups, during performances,..)



V

• Violence (see aggression)

* some items are listed more than once since they are described with different terms - often in both, common and professional language...

Related terms: Psychotherapist, Counselor, Counsellor, Vienna, Austria, Bangkok, Pattaya, Thailand, Psychotherapy, Pair Therapy, Relationship Counseling, Marital Counseling, Individual Counseling, Supervision, Supervisor, Coach, Coaching, Sex Therapy, Family Therapy, Systemic Therapist, Hypnotherapist