🌿 Understand what moves you

We know: Long COVID and ME/CFS are physical illnesses with profound impacts on your life. Here you can find:

• No standard solutions, but a therapy that adapts to your reality
• Recognition of your symptoms (fatigue, PEM, pain, brain fog) as physiological facts
• Respect for your limits – sessions while lying down, phone calls or shared appointments are possible

"Your illness isn't caused by psychological factors—but it does change your psychological experience. This is where we come in."

🌱 Our approach: Holistic & resource-oriented

As a practice for Gestalt therapy with an existential-phenomenological focus, we offer you:

Gestalt therapy

• Perception of interrupted life patterns
• Healing through creative forms of expression (e.g. painting, imaginative techniques)
• Strengthening your self-awareness despite symptoms

Existential approach

• Finding meaning in the "new life" with illness
• Processing losses (profession, identity)
• Developing personal values beyond performance

phenomenology

• Exploring your unique illness experience
• Without preconceived interpretations
• Mindful exploration of physical signals |

🕊️ What you can expect:

• Safe spaces for your anger, grief and fears – without pathologizing
• Energy management in focus: We plan meetings around your "good hours" – not around our calendar
• Trauma-sensitive support for previous medical experiences ("Medical Gaslighting")
• Pacing as a shared philosophy: No exercises against your limits, but respect for PEM
• Breaks during the lesson are a given

🌻 Why you should contact us now:

Even if the path seems difficult, small steps make a big difference. With us, you'll find:

• Therapist who understands ME/CFS & Long COVID (PEM, Dysautonomia, Pacing)
• Flexibility instead of dogma: No CBT activity protocols, but individual coping strategies
• Hope through authenticity: Not "positive thinking", but space for your real feelings

🌱 Our approach: Experience meets professionalism

As a Gestalt therapist with my own Long COVID illness, I offer you:

Gestalt therapy tools:

• Working with creative media (sketches, body images) when words are missing due to brain fog
• Making interrupted life "figures" newly visible
• In the here and now: Learn to feel WHAT is good for you now

Existential Compass:

• A shared search for meaning in the "life in between"
• Transforming losses into new forms of presence
• "Learn to live not despite, but WITH the illness"

Phenomenological attitude:

• Your experience is the focus – not textbook knowledge
• Sensitive exploration of physical signals (early warning systems for PEM)

📞 Contact us – as easy as possible

You only need 3 things:

1. The strength to read this text (you did it!)

2. An email or voice message with:

"I want to talk about Long COVID/ME-CFS therapy"

3. The knowledge: The first consultation (20 min.) is free of charge – by phone, online or on-site while sitting or lying down

✉️ Write now: info@ileko.org

📞 Or leave a message on the answering machine: 06322-08 97 840

📱 *WhatsApp an 49 177 30 09 077 (https://wa.me/491773009073 )* mit:   "Terminanfrage LC/ME-CFS"

*= Important:

• WhatsApp only for appointment scheduling/short questions
• No therapy content via messenger (data protection!)
• First response within 72 hours – PEM-respecting