🇩🇪 Dusseldorf
Germany
Career success does not fill the empty space
Dusseldorf is a city of business, fashion and international companies. Many Iranians here hold good positions and are financially comfortable. And the question heard most often in their sessions is: so why do I still not feel well?
When the point of emigrating has been achieved and something is still missing
Many people emigrate with a clear goal: safety, work, a future for their children. When that goal is reached they expect satisfaction to follow. What usually arrives instead is a sense of emptiness.
This experience is common and explicable. Through the years of effort, all the energy goes into arriving, and the deeper questions get postponed. When the goal is finished, those questions come back all at once.
Two generations, and a gap made of language
Children raised in Germany usually speak German better than Farsi. Parents feel they cannot reach their child in the conversations that matter most, and children feel their parents do not understand the world they live in.
That gap does not announce itself through arguments. It announces itself through silence. Working on it is possible, and it usually needs help from outside.
The treatment route in Germany, and the practical option
As in every German city, insurance-covered treatment requires a therapist with a contract licence and takes months to move through assessment and approval. The number of Farsi-speaking therapists holding that licence is very small.
Online therapy in Farsi does not carry that limit and can begin this week.
What Farsi-speaking newcomers in Dusseldorf find hardest
The emptiness that follows reaching the goals you emigrated for
A language and culture gap with your children
Polite but shallow working relationships
The absence of insurance-covered Farsi-speaking therapists
The pressure to keep up a successful appearance in the Iranian community
Somewhere to put the questions you cannot ask elsewhere
Therapy is not only for a crisis. It is also for the questions that have no answer yet: why am I not content when everything is in order, what did I leave behind in these years.
Emotral's Farsi-speaking therapists know these questions, and the sessions are entirely online.
Farsi-speaking therapists available to you
Every Emotral session is online, so these therapists — wherever in the world they live — are available to Iranians in Dusseldorf, and you see the session time in your own local clock.
Lena Ebadi
Based in Germany
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Individual Therapy (Adults)
Yousof Zohdi Omouei
Based in Germany
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Schema Therapy
Paria Arjmandi
Based in Germany
Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), Analytic Psychotherapy, Dynamic Psychotherapy
Dr. Mojgan Shariatpanahi
Individual Therapy (Adults), Family Therapy, Couples Therapy
Dr. Jalal Khademi
PhD in Psychology, Depression, Anxiety & Panic Attacks
Dr. Fatemeh Mesgarian
Analytic Psychotherapy, Individual Therapy (Adults), Individual Counseling