{"id":97,"date":"2025-05-26T07:46:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T07:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/queer.growing.support\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2025-08-15T06:56:36","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T06:56:36","slug":"ueber-mich","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/queer.growing.support\/en\/ueber-mich\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My path into counselling began with my fascination for psychological processes and the desire to offer queer people a place where they don't have to constantly explain themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After gaining a degree in humanities, I trained in psychosocial counselling - and created such a space with queer.growing.support.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Monet Wohlgemuth, *1989<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

My Values<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In my counselling sessions, I offer a space in which you can get to know yourself better, overcome difficult situations and find your own way. I start from the premise that you know yourself best. I don't provide ready-made solutions, but accompany you in discovering your own answers.

I want to create a space in which as many people as possible can feel comfortable and safe. To achieve this, it is important to me to be mindful of social differences - such as experiences of discrimination, privilege or power relations.

I also see psychosocial counselling as a political space. Our sessions are not detached from the social system. Forms of discrimination such as racism, ableism, queerophobia and classism are deeply ingrained in our society. That's why I don't see these experiences as an individual problem. However, we can work together in counselling to find a way of dealing with them that is right for you.

As a counsellor, I have a position of power in the counselling setting. It is therefore important for me to make my social positioning transparent. The following labels, among others, characterise my perspective within (Swiss) society: white, middle class, university educated, non-religious, non-disabled, non-binary and transmasculine, dyadic, pansexual, allosexual and gray romantic, non-monogamous.

I regularly reflect on my work in supervision and intervision. I attach great importance to transparent communication. This can also mean that I refer a person to a specialist if I am unable to provide appropriate professional support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Approach<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For me, relationship, presence and clear, respectful communication are central to counselling. I work according to the person-centred approach<\/strong>, but I also integrate other approaches. I did my training at the GFK-Institute, which works with these approaches:<\/p>\n\n\n\n