Relationship Counseling Katharina Debus

Welcome to my relationship counseling website!

I offer support regarding communication and with discovering new approaches and solutions. I look forward to assisting you in tackling challenges and complexity in respectful and caring ways.

I work online and in Berlin.

I welcome all genders, sexes, gender constellations, sexual and romantic orientations as well as all consensual relationship models and sexualities. Therefore, I draw on my professional experience and engagement with diverse heterosexual and queer, monogamous and ethically non-monogamous lifestyles, including polyamory and open relationships, as well as various sexualities and non-sexualities, amongst others kink and BDSM, as well as asexuality. For more information in German, please see About my Background (an English version will follow soon).

Rather than working with templates of ‘good’ or ‘right’ relationships—either based on societal or community norms—I aim to support you to co-create approaches that correspond to your individual wishes, needs, and boundaries. My goal is to assist in fostering relationships that are beneficial to all involved and can handle challenges. In this process, I appreciate diversity and strive to take into account and mitigate effects of discrimination, inequality and power imbalances on relationships. For more information, please see My Approaches.

Regarding the term relationship counseling: The classic terms for my offer are couples counseling or couples therapy. These terms are not clearly distinguished from each other and are generally used interchangeably. I have opted for the term relationship counseling because not all people in relationships like the term ‘couple’ to describe themselves.

On this website, you will find examples of relationship topics that I have focused on at Counseling Topics, information about my background and my approaches, as well as organizational information about my counseling offer and contact information.

You can find my publications and offers in the context of education, training, professional consulting, collaborative evaluation, and research on gender relations, gender, romantic and sexual diversity, gender-reflective and queer education, sex education, empowerment, consent education, as well as (education on) discrimination and intersectionality at www.katharina-debus.de (currently only in German).

Polyamory, ethical non-monogamy, trans*, transgender, transsexual, trans-inclusive, trans*inclusive, intersex, inter*, bisexual, gay, lesbian, pansexual, asexual, aromantic, panromantic, heteroromantic, biromantic, poly, feminist, kink-aware, kink aware, kink sensitive, left-wing, queer, queer sensitive