Counseling
You are important! Counseling at RuT e.V.
If you are thinking about seeking counseling, then you have already taken the first step. We are here to support you in your counseling needs and to accompany you on your way in challenging life situations.
We offer a safe environment where you can feel welcome and protected. Our rooms are wheelchair-friendly.
The counseling service is aimed at lesbian, bisexual and queer women* with or without disabilities or chronic illness in problem, decision or crisis situations. Basically, all topics are welcome.
You can send us an email with your counseling request any day of the week: beratung@rut-berlin.de. You can also call us at any time during RuT opening hours, and we will pass your contact on to our counseling coordinator, who will get back to you as soon as possible. Usually in the course of one week. phone: 030 6 21 47 53.
In our counseling team we have therapists and counselors with different trainings and additional qualifications. They live queer/lesbian, are with and without disabilities or chronic illness and of different ages. We work trauma-sensitive, discrimination-sensitive, emancipatory and according to the peer principle.
Fields of counseling
Psychosocial counseling
Psychosocial counseling is aimed at people who, in relation to a current and concrete problem and over a clearly defined period of time, want to be supported in helping themselves. Our counselors accompany people in problem, decision and crisis situations in the development of their own and concrete solution steps. Supportive discussions often focus on strengthening the self-esteem, self-confidence and emotional stabilization of those seeking help.
Long-term care counseling
We also offer advice and support in the context of our social counseling for challenges related to questions about care needs. Be it difficulties with authorities, e.g. applying for a care level or rehabilitation measures, dealing with unclear notices or appeals when applications are rejected. It is not easy to deal with the bureaucratic processes in the context of care in difficult life situations all by yourself. We are happy to help you with this.
Pflegeberatung
Auch bei Herausforderungen rund um Fragen zu Pflegebedarf bieten wir im Kontext unserer Sozialberatung Rat und Unterstützung. Sei es bei Schwierigkeiten mit Behörden, z.B. bei der Beantragung einer Pflegestufe oder Reha-Maßnahmen, beim Umgang mit unklaren Bescheiden oder Einspruchserhebung bei Ablehnung von Anträgen. Es ist nicht leicht, sich in schwierigen Lebenslagen ganz alleine mit den bürokratischen Prozessen im Kontext von Pflege auseinanderzusetzen. Wir helfen dir gerne dabei.
Counseling topics
Basically, all topics are welcome. The focal points of our psychosocial counseling work are:
Grief, old age, loneliness
We accompany you in difficult phases of life, in times of mourning and farewell, in crises of meaning and loneliness. The RuT is an important contact point for women* who are looking for social support or assistance in dealing with aging. Our counselors help those seeking advice who have lost an important person or are in a crisis of meaning and feel listless and overwhelmed with the situation. In addition to individual counseling, we also offer a regular grief group.
Disability, illness
We support women* and their relatives in dealing with illness and its consequences or with the challenges of physical disability. We help to find solutions around coping with everyday life and to find the right measures and contact points.
Partnership, relationship, separation
We offer couple and partnership counseling for women in relationships of various kinds: relationships between two, polyamorous relationships, affairs, life-loves; relationship with mother, father, grandparents, colleagues, business partners, ex-lovers, neighbors, sisters, friends.As we cannot accept all couples counseling requests, we would like to make couples and relationship counseling particularly accessible to couples in precarious life situations with a low income.
Coming Out, Sexuality, Identity
Feeling lesbian, bisexual, asexual, non-binary, queer, pan or trans is a challenge at any age. When one’s sexual orientation does not fit the popular norm, self-doubt, anxiety, and experiences of discrimination are commonplace. In addition to individual counseling, we also offer a regular coming-out group 40+.
Decisions, life planning
Change processes are an enormous challenge. When we move towards something new – regardless of whether we initiated the change ourselves or whether external circumstances triggered it – we simultaneously move away from something. This process is sensitive and often accompanied by resistance, fear of loss and fear of the future. We accompany you in change and decision-making processes, help to explore possibilities for action and solutions, and in the development of a new vision.
Consulting framework
Forms of counseling
- Individual counseling/couple counseling
- Counseling in the rooms of the RuT (click here for the hygiene concept of the RuT)
- Video counseling
- Telephone counseling
Privacy and anonymity
Our counselors are bound to secrecy. Content exchanged during a counseling session remains confidential. Here you can find our privacy policy.
Duration
60 minutes for individual counseling, 90 minutes for couple counseling
Number of appointments
Up to 6 counseling appointments are possible after an initial meeting to get to know each other.
Costs
The counseling is free of charge. We gladly accept donations.
(Orientation value 10 €/ 30 minutes/ person). Here you can find our account details.
The Counselors
Kholoud Bidak
- Kholoud is an african descent Flinta who cares about wellbeing, and how to feel better in our daily lives
- Kholoud have been doing humanitarian work for over 21 years in many cities and in different contexts.
- Kholoud offers one to one sessions of psychosocial counselling with methods like compassionate inquiry
- Counselling in English and Arabic
Kholoud Bidak
Tal Peer
- 1975 born in Tel Aviv, she/her
- Mediator especially for relationships
- Experience in diverse intercultural contexts and with collective trauma, antiracist, body activist and feminist mother
- support for family and personal processes
- realtionship counseling
- counselling for rainbow families
- languages: Hebrew, English and German
Tal Peer
Counselling Coordination
Diana Böhme
- Counsellor for relationships, couples and sexuality
- also for alternative relationship models
- Mediation
- systemic Coach
- Healing practinioner for psychotherapy
Link to website: www.DianaBoehme.de
Diana Böhme
Gefördert durch:
Kontakt- und Besuchs-Info
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RuT – Rad und Tat
Offene Initiative Lesbischer Frauen e.V.
Schillerpromenade 1
12049 Berlin
Telefon: 030 – 621 47 53
Email: post@rut-berlin.de
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Fahrverbindungen
U8-Boddinstraße (Fahrstuhl) Busse M43 u. 166 bis U-Bhf. Boddinstr. oder Fontanestr./Flughafenstr.
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Dienstag 10-14 Uhr
Mittwoch 10-14 Uhr
Donnerstag 10-14 Uhr
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