Stefan Eckardt, BACP

Stefan Eckardt specialises in Systemic Counselling and Psychotherapy, an academically grounded approach that focuses on relationships and the patterns that connect people. He works with individuals, couples, families and groups - including workplace teams and other non-family networks - to explore how interactions and contexts shape experience and wellbeing. Stefan frames difficulties in relational terms, helping people articulate difficult thoughts and emotions, understand different perspectives, and identify practical ways to shift unhelpful patterns.

Drawing on ten years of clinical practice in the United Kingdom, he applies systemic ideas alongside complementary methods from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Attachment-Based Therapy, Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Emotionally-Focused Therapy where appropriate. His work covers a wide range of concerns commonly brought to systemic therapy, including addiction, eating issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, identity and relationship problems, parenting challenges and stress at home or work. Stefan emphasises that each person and situation is unique, so therapy is shaped around what matters to the individual or the group in front of him.

Stefan is a member of the BACP - the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy - which indicates adherence to professional standards and ongoing professional development. He offers services in English and German and practises from the United Kingdom, focusing on locally based clients and relationships within their everyday contexts.