Dr. Ariane Wahl

Dr. Ariane Wahl

HEALTH COUNSELLING AND STRESS MANAGEMENT – MENTALLY FIT AND HEALTHY

Dr. Ariane Wahl is an experienced health consultant and coach at the ETHIANUM Heidelberg. She holds a doctorate in counselling science and specialises in executive coaching. Especially in management positions, mental health is negatively influenced by many factors. Discomfort, stress, exhaustion and burn-out syndrome are among the most common consequences.

Dr. Ariane Wahl actively tackles these issues together with her clients in her health counselling at the ETHIANUM. She advises on career planning, trains clients on how to deal appropriately with employees, solves problems in communication with superiors and provides training in active conflict management in the workplace. Dr. Ariane Wahl was herself a sales manager in an international company for many years. She has been supporting managers as a freelance consultant and trainer since 2004. She has thematised her work as a coach scientifically. In 2018, she completed her dissertation on “Self-organisation in professional counselling” at the Institute of Educational Science at Heidelberg University.

Based on her expertise, Dr. Wahl focuses her work on mental coaching for managers in companies. “I am particularly focussed on the individual consideration and illumination of each client with their very own topic or problem situation. This results in reliable solutions. Prefabricated patterns don’t help. I encourage my clients to take the solution into their own hands. I motivate them to take the initiative,” says Dr. Wahl about her way of working.

At the ETHIANUM Heidelberg, she also specialises in another area. In the field of prevention, her health counselling is the perfect complement to the diagnostic and medical services on offer. This means that the ETHIANUM can also offer the subject area of stress management in preventive medicine.

Career

• Since 2016 Board member of the German Association for Counselling (DGfB) – umbrella organisation for the promotion of quality in counselling
• 2013 to 2018 Dissertation: Promoting self-organisation in professional counselling (University of Heidelberg)
• 2012 to 2017 Research assistant at the Institute for Educational Science, University of Heidelberg (part-time) – Research & Teaching
• 2005 Employment Agency Heidelberg, customer counselling
• Since 2004 Freelance consultant & trainer for specialists and managers

Specialist areas

• Coach (DFG-certified)
• Person-centred counselling (GWG-certified)
• Focusing counsellor & trainer, coordinator in training (DFG-certified)
• Experience-based concept coaching (GWG-certified)
• Systemic counsellor (certified by the Centre for Systemic Research & Counselling)
• Somatic Experiencing® (Advanced Level)
• Expert in professional knowledge and activity analysis (certified SRH Heidelberg)
• Psychotherapist (HP)