🌿 What has shaped me professionally…
Education & qualifications
A degree in Psychology (B.Sc., M.Sc.) with a clinical focus (HMU Potsdam and SRH Fernhochschule).
In addition, I studied for a master's degree in psychotherapy until the fourth semester (HMU Potsdam), followed by licensure under the German Heilpraktikergesetz (HPG)
Training in Dance and Movement Therapy with an additional qualification in Progressive Muscle Relaxation (IEK Berlin)
A foundational education in pedagogy as a state-certified early childhood educator (Klax & INA.Kinder.Garten Berlin)
Clinical & counseling experience
Work in psychiatry, psychosomatics, and psychotherapy (Ernst von Bergmann Hospital)
Experience in psychiatric care for children, adolescents, and adults (Station Blau)
Outpatient psychological counseling for people in challenging life situations (freelance & with AllyTime)
Several years of supporting children, adolescents, and families in educational and therapeutic contexts (in daycare centers, primary schools, and integration support services in Berlin and Potsdam)
Academic background
Research and academic work in clinical and personality psychology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and HMU Potsdam
In my professional role, I am a psychologist (M.Sc.), a psychotherapist (licensed under the German Heilpraktikergesetz), a dance and movement therapist with additional training in Progressive Muscle Relaxation, and a state-certified early childhood educator. I work in psychological counseling and psychotherapy in my own practice, with AllyTime, and in academic research. My therapeutic approach is resource-oriented and attachment-informed. In my work, I offer a safe and supportive space in which stabilisation, personal development, and growth can become possible.
Alongside my professional role, I am also a human being with my own life experiences. Some inner landscapes I know not only from maps and models in textbooks and from my professional work, but also as part of what it means to be human. We are all in movement — and it is often in this movement that we find what connects us.
My name is
Leonie Carmen Bandurski
"She was a butterfly
whose wings had been broken by the storm.
For a long time she lay still,
hidden in the shadows, where no one saw her pain.
Yet deep within her, a small light was glowing, one that did not give up on healing her wings. And she remembered:
even broken wings can learn to fly again."
