Ellena Schawerda, BA. pth.

Ellena Schawerda is a psychotherapist in training under supervision and is completing her specialist training in psychoanalysis at the Psychoanalytic Seminar Innsbruck (PSI). Her therapeutic work with children, adolescents and adults is based on a mindful, attentive approach. She is convinced that personal development is possible when inner processes are understood, allowed and brought into relationship.

Her professional experience combines clinical, institutional and organizational knowledge with a sound theoretical education. After an initial career in the natural sciences, she consciously opted for psychotherapy and studied psychotherapy science at the Sigmund Freud Private University in Vienna, where she coordinated the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic for several years. She gained practical experience at the social psychiatric ward of the Donaustadt Clinic, at the university outpatient clinic of the SFU Vienna and at Intakt, a therapy center for people with eating disorders.

Today, Ellena works with adults as well as children and adolescents from the age of 11 in individual settings. She is particularly interested in a psychodynamic understanding of mental suffering that opens up space for individual life stories and relationship experiences - beyond premature pathologization or seemingly simple solutions. Her therapeutic approach is characterized by respect, openness and the joy of lively, sincere contact.