Pause.
Breathe.
Onward.
Knowing what's wrong and changing it are two different problems.
You've thought about it. You've talked about it with people you trust. You've probably reframed it, slept on it, and tried to reason through it. And it hasn't moved.
That's not a failure of insight. Some things don't shift through thinking alone. They need a different tool entirely.
I'm a certified coach and hypnotherapist. I work with people who give everything and still can't move it. Those aren't contradictory.
TWO APPROACHES. ONE QUESTION: WHAT DOES THIS ACTUALLY NEED?
Not every stuck situation is the same. Some need structure, perspective, and a clear path forward. Others have a root that lives below the level of conversation.
Part of the work is figuring out which one you're dealing with, before you invest time and energy in the wrong direction.
Coaching
For situations where you know something needs to change, but you can't seem to get there on your own.
You're overwhelmed. You're in a transition. You have a decision to make and you keep circling it. You want to function differently in your relationships, at work, or as a parent. The old patterns keep showing up anyway. You know what the problem is. You're not sure what to do with it.
Coaching is structured, direct, and practical. We identify what's actually going on underneath the stated problem, map what needs to shift, and work through it step by step. You do the work. I don't do it for you. But I won't let you spend five sessions in the same story either.
Most coaching processes take between three and six sessions. Some fewer, some more. You decide when you're done.
Walking sessions are also available. Movement and thinking work well together. Some people find clarity faster on a path than in a chair.
Hypnotherapy
For issues that don't respond to willpower, reasoning, or talking.
Some patterns repeat despite full awareness of them. You know exactly why you smoke. You know the fear is irrational. You've understood the childhood experience a dozen times in conversation and it hasn't changed how it shows up in your body. That's not a thinking problem. Beliefs, blocks, and emotional patterns are stored in the subconscious, below the level conversation can reach. That's where hypnotherapy works.
It bypasses the analyzing mind and goes directly to the root: where the issue was formed, what holds it in place, and what needs to shift for it to actually change. In a few sessions, we can identify the cause and resolve it at the source.
It's used for phobias, habitual patterns, addictions, blocks with a specific origin, and situations where the cognitive layer has already been exhausted.
One session is often enough. Three is the outer limit for most contained issues. It is not therapy, and it does not replace therapy for complex psychological conditions. For the right problem, it is one of the fastest and most direct tools available.
HOW IT WORKS
We start with a conversation. You tell me what's going on. I ask the things that matter. Together we figure out what's actually needed: coaching, hypnotherapy, a combination, or something else entirely.
From there, you decide how to proceed. There's no package you have to buy, no minimum commitment, no pressure to continue beyond what's useful. When you feel you have what you came for, we stop.
Coaching sessions are available in person, on a walk, in a café, or online. Hypnotherapy takes place in my practice in Uetikon am See.
From the work
Why me
My entire career has had one thread: language. Specifically, how to make a complex thing land for the right person.
I did my doctorate at ETH Zürich, then spent years in pharma communications working with clinicians and training physicians, translating scientific evidence into something hospitals could actually use. After that, fundraising for academia, where you have minutes to make a decade of research legible to someone who holds the budget. Then nine years as scientific affairs manager at ETH, working at the intersection of disciplines that don't share a vocabulary.
Coaching and hypnotherapy are the same work, scaled to one person. The thing that's stuck is usually a translation problem: between what you know and what you can act on, between who you are and how you're showing up, between what you feel and what you can name. That's also where the name comes from. A caesura is the pause in a line of verse before the next part begins. That pause is where everything changes.
I became a coach and hypnotherapist because I watched too many smart people stay stuck. Not because they lacked intelligence or effort. Because they were using the wrong tool for what they were facing.
I'm certified through EASC and Life Trust in coaching, and OMNI-certified through SBVH in hypnotherapy. I know every method I use from both sides of the room. I know what it's like to sit on the other side of that conversation.
I understand how the hippocampus and the amygdala get in each other's way, and how to bring calm into that. I'll also have you burn notes by moonlight or write a letter from your future self, if that's what gets you there.
I don't believe in coddling. I don't believe in manufactured urgency. I believe in giving people back their own authority. That means I'll tell you what I actually see, hand you the responsibility for what to do with it, and step out when you no longer need me there.
Is this for you?
This is for you if you've tried and it hasn't moved: a pattern that keeps repeating, a fear or habit with a specific root, a transition that's harder than expected, or simply the feeling that the version of yourself you want to be and the version showing up in daily life have drifted apart.
It's not the right fit for acute psychological crises, conditions that require clinical treatment, or situations involving active abuse. Those need a different kind of professional. If you're not sure which applies, write to me. I'll tell you honestly.
You don't have to commit to anything. Start with a conversation.