Psychosocial Counseling Services

“I don’t know what I want” –
when orientation is missing

In my practice in Vienna, I offer psychosocial counseling for people who want to understand their experiences and develop new perspectives.

Ich weiss nicht was ich will – Psychosoziale Beratungsleistungen – Verena Fussi

What concerns are you in the right place with?

I offer structured psychosocial counseling to clarify inner issues, work through challenging life situations, and develop sustainable decisions.

We work on inner conflicts, recurring patterns, and a lack of orientation, as well as on concrete questions from your everyday life. The aim is to understand connections, expand room for action, and implement changes consciously and with a sense of self-efficacy.

Inner clarification processes during challenging phases

Individual psychosocial counseling provides a professional framework for working through life crises, inner emptiness, and the feeling of “I don’t know what I want.”

In conversation, we analyze biographical, social, and internal influencing factors and work specifically with systemic perspectives, NLP methods, and reflective work.

This makes unconscious dynamics visible and allows change processes to be shaped consciously.

Identity, roles, and life transitions

Identity is not a fixed concept but emerges through constant negotiation between inner experience and external expectations.

In transition situations such as professional reorientation, separation, or (chosen) childlessness, familiar self-images come under pressure, often accompanied by the thought “I don’t know what I want.”

In counseling, we systematically make these tensions visible, clarify possibilities for influence, and develop sustainable ways of dealing with structural conditions and biographical imprints.

A common starting point:
“I don’t know what I want”

If you come with the thought “I don’t know what I want,” it is often not about quick answers but about guidance that carefully unpacks complexity.

My counseling combines structure with openness, professional classification with dialogical work.

This makes it possible to organize inner tensions, recognize connections, and develop new perspectives without premature conclusions.

Innere Leere überwinden – Verena Fussi – Dipl. psychosoziale Beraterin

QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

This feeling often arises when inner conflicts, contradictory expectations, or overwhelm cover up one’s own needs. Decisions are then avoided or experienced as blocked. Psychosocial counseling helps structure this uncertainty and rebuild the ability to make decisions.

Difficulties in making decisions often arise when conflicting internal demands, fear of consequences, or a lack of clarity about one’s own priorities come together. In psychosocial counseling, these blockages are addressed and resolved so that decisions become possible again.

Reshaping identity means consciously reviewing and further developing one’s self-understanding in relation to social roles, relationships, and life contexts. In anthropology, identity is not understood as a fixed characteristic but as a changing process shaped by experiences, transitions, and social attributions. Identity work therefore means clarifying, reorganizing, or changing existing self-images so that they fit the current reality of life and become guiding for action.

Not finding oneself in social role models means that the social expectations linked to certain positions or ways of life do not align with one’s own experience or self-image. Roles are culturally shaped norms that are meant to provide orientation. When these expectations do not fit, a tension arises between one’s own experience and what is supposed to apply “from the outside.” This can manifest as discomfort, doubts about one’s own position, or a need for another form of self-determination.

Eine Abweichung wird dann zur Belastung, wenn sie dauerhaft zu innerem Druck, Selbstzweifeln oder sozialer Isolation führt. Vor allem dann, wenn widersprüchliche Erwartungen nicht mehr eigenständig verarbeitet werden können. Psychosoziale Beratung kann dabei unterstützen, diese Spannungen einzuordnen und in konkrete Schritte zu übersetzen.

At the beginning there is a free initial consultation in which we check whether collaboration makes sense. In the subsequent individual counseling, concerns, topics, and goals are clarified and addressed in a structured way. The focus lies on making connections understandable, developing options for action, and implementing concrete steps in everyday life.

Do you have questions or
would you like to get in touch?

I will get back to you personally within one working day.

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