Let's walk together
Hello, my name is Leopold Maria Tomaschek. I offer guidance and support on your journey to feeling more alive, balanced, and whole in this complex and challenging world.
Life can be hard. It takes great courage to face ourselves, our fears and darkness, and it may take much time to become our own best friend. There are periods in life when we need support.
I can help you with activating the self-healing and stabilizing core we all have, and with finding your key to a purposeful life, inner resources and calm.
I offer consultation online and in-person, in English and German, in Helsinki.
Getting Started
After you send me a message, we meet to find out if we want to work together. We make a plan together for how and what we will work with. This becomes a guiding framework for the process. I will be there with you every step along the way, and meet you where you are.
Nurturing a Fresh Beginning
When starting therapy, it is helpful if you find some time for yourself after each session, to protect and nurture the new growth, and to let yourself rest as inner work and changes in the nervous-system can be quite tiring.
Change
I may not have your answers, therapy is not advice giving, but I will support you in finding your answers that are already within you. I can help you mend old injuries, and confront a new life that still lies ahead. You may discover that you are much more than you thought, and that there are resources, depths, and new possibilities; to be discovered, already waiting for you.
Frequently Asked Questions
I work with adult individuals (+18) and groups.
In my opinion, the diagnostic model does not represent the true complexity of the human experience well and can only serve as a starting point.
You are just as you are, and we work with exactly ‘what-is’ and with your personal experience.
I work with a broad range of difficult life experiences. For more detail read the 'How may I help' page.
Individuation may be a life-long journey towards - and involvement with the Self. But stress and trauma is not a life sentence. First symptom relief may become noticeable after about 3-6 months and more significant changes after 1 to 3+ years. Over all this varies.
Your progress also depends on many other factors; where you stand when we start and the amount of energy available for your process, for example.
I offer long-term support and short-term work can be arranged for specific issues.
I do not use the protected title 'psychotherapist' in Finland. Despite the support and methods being grounded in training and experience I can not provide KELA reimbursement. I can at times offer reduced session fee's based on income.
Should you have any questions about the suitability of my services for you, please send me a message or just come to an initial session. I am happy to receive your questions.
What is individuation-therapy?
Individuation therapy aims to help guide the process of personality development during and after a crisis, trauma, or large / sudden life changes.
It is integrative, focusing on the whole human being rather than just a diagnosis or symptom, and it is depth-oriented - taking into account the unconscious experiences, memories or behaviors that can drive a persons daily life.
Individuation is the continuous and natural process of being and becoming oneself. Life's ups and downs can get us stuck or prevent us from moving forward in a direction natural to our very own nature.
Individuating can mean to outgrow what no longer serves you and to become conscious of, and capable of embodying who you are meant to be; beyond the limits and demands that traumatic experience, family, work, and society provide.