Hello,
I am Verena Fussi.

“Trust is the quietest form of courage.”

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Interest in people, in finding orientation with them, even in challenging contexts.

Verena Fussi – Dipl. psychosoziale Beraterin

My Why

I completed my secondary school leaving exam and subsequently lived and worked in the USA. After an initial culture shock, I not only learned to find my way in a foreign cultural and linguistic environment, but also to move freely within it and continue to develop. This experience sparked my interest in how people find orientation when familiar structures fall away and new, challenging contexts emerge.

During my studies in Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, I engaged intensively with lifeworlds, role models, transitions, and ritual forms of social orientation. I learned to understand individual experiences within their social and cultural context. During my research year in Slovenia, my conviction deepened to approach other realities of life with openness and to allow knowledge to emerge through dialogue rather than from fixed assumptions.

These experiences shape my professional attitude and my work as a certified life and social counselor.
A respectful approach to different life concepts and identities is just as important to me as queer sensitivity and BIPoC inclusion.

Values & Attitude

  • Autonomy and Self-Efficacy

    My counseling aims to clarify personal positions and enable independent decision-making.

  • Ambivalences and In-Between Spaces

    Contradictory inner positions are taken seriously as relevant information and are addressed systematically.

  • Context and Understanding of Roles
    Topics are considered within the context of life phase, relationships, roles, and expectations.

  • Dignity and Professional Responsibility
    Inner topics are addressed respectfully and with nuance on a professional foundation.

Career & Qualifications

  • Certified Psychosocial Counselor
    Life and Social Counselor within the framework of the Austrian Trade Regulation Act.

  • Coach
    Support for clarification and decision-making processes on an individual level.

  • Bachelor’s Degree
    Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology (BA)
    Focus on identity, roles, transitions, and cultural context.

  • Mental Trainer
    Work with mental strategies, self-regulation, and inner alignment.

  • NLP Trainer
    Language- and system-based methods for structuring internal processes.

  • Management Trainer
    Work with roles, responsibility, and decision dynamics in professional contexts.

What My Guidance Stands For

Understanding and clarifying
inner emptiness:
structured support
on equal footing

My guidance is characterized by appreciation and responsibility. I work in a structured, dialogical way and without premature answers.

At the center are your experience, your decisions, and your pace. Instead of prescribing solutions, I open spaces for thinking and action.

Together we develop strategies so that your decisions have an impact in everyday life.