🇩🇪 Stuttgart
Germany
A city of engineers, and what engineers accept last
Stuttgart is the heart of German automotive and engineering industry, and a large number of Iranians here are engineers or researchers. In a culture where problems are solved by analysis, accepting that some things are not solved by analysis takes its own time.
Swabian culture and social distance
The Swabian region is known for being sparing with words, orderly and reserved. A neighbour who has lived beside you for ten years may never ask how you actually are. This is not unkindness; it is a different form of respect for privacy. To somebody arriving from a high-contact Iranian culture it feels cold and rejecting.
Knowing that difference matters, because many people read that coolness as a sign that they personally have not been accepted, when it has nothing to do with them.
When an analytical mind does not help
Many engineer clients say they have spent years trying to solve their problem: read the books, made the plan, changed the habits. When that did not work, they concluded the fault was in them.
Anxiety and depression are not engineering problems. Working on them requires a relationship, not a solution. For a lot of people that simple point is where the change starts.
Insurance-covered treatment in Baden-Wurttemberg
The process is Germany's national one, and the wait for a therapist with a contract licence runs to several months. Finding one who also speaks Farsi is, in this state, effectively impossible.
What Farsi-speaking newcomers in Stuttgart find hardest
Regional cultural reserve, and the difficulty of forming close relationships
Trying to solve emotional problems with analytical methods
Long working hours in industry
Social isolation, particularly in the first years
No Farsi-speaking therapist available locally
A relationship where you do not have to prove anything
In a therapy session you are not expected to present a problem or arrive with a solution. You are expected to talk and to be heard, in the language you think in.
Emotral's therapists speak Farsi 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 Stuttgart, 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
Farsi-speaking therapists for Iranians across Germany
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