When something shakes everything — finding your footing again.
Emergency psychology comes into play when something distressing has happened or is feared — an accident, a sudden loss, an experience of violence or threat, an acute crisis. A good emergency-psychological contact helps you to find the ground under your feet again, to refocus, and to make workable sense of what you have just experienced. Quickly reachable, calm, discreet.
The police (117) connect you around the clock with the emergency psychiatrist on duty. My offer is rapid psychological stabilisation alongside and afterwards — not a substitute for the emergency services when life is at risk.
What emergency psychology does.
After a distressing event, much is too much at once: images that intrude, a body on alert, thoughts and feelings that find no place. Emergency psychology helps to calm the nervous system, restore safety, and make sense of what happened so that it no longer takes control.
It is not long therapy, but rapid, focused support in the acute window — so that an overwhelming experience does not become a lasting pattern. Where further treatment is needed, the transition into psychotherapy is seamless — the same person, no unfamiliar system.
From alarm back into everyday life.
The work is dense and close-meshed at first and loosens once ground is regained.
Stabilise
Holding when everything is too much. Calming the nervous system, restoring safety, clarifying the next step.
Make sense
Making what happened workable — ordering distressing images, thoughts and feelings so they lose their power.
Back
Step by step back into agency and everyday life — and recognising when further therapy makes sense.
Even when a whole team is affected.
An accident at work, a death, a robbery, a distressing operation: critical events often affect more than individuals. Rapid stabilisation for those affected and for staff helps a strain not to linger and not to spread through the team.
For companies, institutions and teams on call too — prepared, reachable and discreet, on site or remote.
Reachable, when it counts.
In the acute window, speed counts. Support on site, by phone or video — Switzerland-wide and international by arrangement, especially under conditions that demand discretion and availability at once.
Locations: Zurich, Basel-Stadt and Baselland, Switzerland-wide and international by arrangement.
Contact.
In case of immediate danger, the emergency numbers above first (144 · 117 · 143). For rapid emergency-psychological support afterwards: call or send a short message. Phone with answering service — please leave your number and a brief note.
E-mail: — please enable JavaScript — · Switzerland and international.