About Me
Agnes Otzelberger MBACP UKCP reg. (she/her)
I am an integrative transpersonal therapist working in private practice and as a trainer. My work is shaped by my background working in the not-for-profit world and research, on social justice and climate change. Through these experiences, I came to believe that personal wellbeing and the wider systems we are part of are deeply linked.
Alongside my 1:1 work as a therapist, I am part of the training team at Re-Vision, a counselling and psychotherapy training organisation in London. I also provide training and support on emotional burnout, post-traumatic stress, ecological grief and related issues to organisations in the not-for-profit world, helping professions, activism and beyond. I also work therapeutically with people on their relationship to money which can be a major issue standing in the way of the world we want to live in and the lives we want to live.
I have trained teams in organisations such as the UK National Health Service, the Samaritans, a Swiss humanitarian training provider, a European federation of peace-builders, a Japanese sustainable farming collective, a French Buddhist NGO and a number of British grassroots charities addressing e.g. domestic violence, homelessness and environmental degradation. I have also worked in counselling services in Sussex and London.
I live in Brighton, where I have been settled for over a decade. I was born and raised in Vienna, Austria, with roots in Switzerland and the Netherlands. Having lived and worked in various parts of the world, I bring a deep understanding of intercultural and migratory life experiences and questions of identity and and belonging.
Training and qualifications
I qualified as a psychotherapeutic counsellor from Re-Vision in London. I have also completed training in Compassion-based Therapy and Social Transformation with the Nalanda Institute in New York/Toronto, and in Peter Koenig’s Money Work which draws on Jungian ideas.
I have taken part in and organised retreats and training in mindfulness, compassion-based meditation, interpersonal communication and other forms of personal development, with valued teachers such as Joel and Michelle Levey, Jill and Richard Broadbent, and Andy Mason. I regularly engage in continued professional development.
My first degree was in political science and I hold an MA in Development Studies from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex.
I regularly engage in continued professional development. So far, this has included:
Working with Neurodiversity • Therapy Outdoors in Nature • Working alongside Trans, Gender-Diverse and Questioning People • Working with Couples • Therapeutic Communication Using the Arts • Gestalt Therapeutic Practice
Professional associations
I am a clinical member of the UK Council for Psychotherapy (membership number 2011190638) and the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (396892) and adhere to their professional standards and codes of ethics.
I am also a member of the Climate Psychology Alliance and the Gendered Intelligence Network of Therapists and Counsellors.
“We can’t choose to vanish the dark, but we can choose to kindle the light.”
EDITH EGER

