John Sandblom

About John

Therapy can offer a space to slow down enough to become more attuned to what is happening within you — your feelings, thoughts, bodily sensations, impulses and ways of relating to others.

My approach is person-centred, experiential and relational. I pay close attention to your moment-to-moment experience, “tracking” your process and offering reflections that may help you notice patterns, feelings or possibilities that are difficult to see on your own. I also bring myself into the relationship: when I have a hunch or particular response to something, I may share it and invite us to explore it together.

I am interested in how difficult experiences and relationships can shape our sense of ourselves, sometimes leaving us disconnected from our needs, emotions, bodies or sense of direction. Therapy can be a place to gently reconnect with these parts of ourselves, without turning growth into another demand to perform or “fix” ourselves. I believe that a deeper and more accepting relationship with our experience can create more freedom, connection, meaning and engagement in everyday life.

People come to me with many different concerns, including relationship difficulties, navigating neurodivergence, questions around identity and direction, loneliness or belonging, emotional overwhelm, loss, and periods of transition or change. I am particularly interested in the less easily defined parts of psychological life: questions of meaning, authenticity, intimacy, sexuality, spirituality and our relationship to altered states of consciousness.

I moved to Berlin in 2021, having grown up in Scandinavia and spent almost a decade studying and working in Scotland. Alongside my therapeutic practice, I have completed training in psychedelic integration with MIND Foundation and facilitate integration workshops with them.

Outside therapy, my interests include music and club culture, yoga, sound and visual art, spirituality and political philosophy. These interests inform the person I am and the way I meet people, and can also offer a point of connection with clients exploring some of these terrains. But I will always start with you: you set the direction and pace, and my task is to meet you with acceptance and curiosity, creating a relationship in which trust can develop and something new can become possible.

If this resonates with you, send me a message and we can arrange a free 30-minute introductory session and take it from there :)

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