I offer expertise and experience, a tailored approach to integrative & expressive psychotherapy to individuals, businesses - in person, and online.
Read more to find out of my areas of expertise, workshop offerings, events and how to engage my services. Or, send me a direct email here.
Spiritual energy
For several years I have been part of a spiritual training in Denmark. This helps me develop and strengthen the energy in my body through a contact to what is bigger than me. This knowledge of spiritual energy has helped me heal my body and is now an important part of my offer.
The Octagon
is an octagonal room with a tower. On top of the tower there is a copper eagle! The Octagon is an annex to my house for workshops.
The symbol for the Octagon is:
Regeneration, totality, infinity, rebirth, transition and change! This is also symbol for my work as an integrative psychotherapist and an art - psychotherapist!
Process
Life is a journey and I have traveled far both in the outside world and within myself, which means that I have visited many rooms where emotions live and know what it means to have anxiety, to be afraid, to be burned out, to have relationship problems, to be sick and to be in deep sorrow. I also know what help is needed to find joy and quality of life again. This means that you can safely trust that my life experience combined with my professional knowledge can help you find your own power for change.
With me, you can get help processing your personal problems and life issues in a calm and safe environment. You get to work with what weighs on you and what you need to deal with. You process your thoughts with me who listens, hold, understands and guide you to your next step on your life journey. The goal is to give you tools to strengthen your own unique resources and energy. Sometimes it is enough with a few sessions to make life feel manageable again, in other situations a longer psychotherapeutic contact is needed.
In particular, my interest is to use expressive psychotherapy. For me, this means that I have learned to be responsive to both what is being said and what is not being said, often I use the body language, dream images, images, the imagery and creation, the creative language, as a method of capturing the unconscious threads which is an aid to understanding and managing a situation that needs help and understanding to develop. Creative expression is also a method of self-development.
Services & Expertise
Below are examples of some of my service and offers. For a detailed quote please complete the contact form via the button below. Enquiries will receive a 10 -minute telephone follow up free of charge.
Individual and couple therapy sessions, 1 - 2 hour physical meeting, Lund, Malmö or Österlen.
Family therapy - counselling sessions, 1 - 2 hour
Special individual sessions for persons with a serious illness or as supportive in palliative care
Creative self-development. Individual package.
Inspiration lecture with a possibility to connect a workshop, usually 1 day. Price by agreement.
1. Death is vital to life - about Dr Elisabeth Kübler Ross and my own lifelong experience. Gives perspective to time, creates presence, biological balance and emotional maturity.
2. Spirituality in everyday life - about the energy wheels in the body, the power of the heart as both a physical and spiritual organ, meditation and prayer, to open your heart, the divine energy.
3. Magical moments - about what we can not see, when life transmute, from darkness to light, the power of light.
4. The journey out into the world and into myself - my global lifejourney.
Course: Life Loss and Transition journey, a 3-day long workshop for a group between 6 – 10 people. We focus on life, loss, breaking point and turning point, transmution.
Groups: Meditation group once/month, Begin where you are once/month, The power of the heart once/month, The power of light once/month.
Retreat: Spring and autumn we will meet here in Österlen, in the middle of the powerful energetic nature. We spend 4 days together in a secure community with deep inner contact, daily individual sessions to each participant to focus the individual process.
Please feel free to make contact to me for more information and planned dates.
Ann Madsen
I am Swedish and Danish Certified Senior Integrative Psychotherapy Specialist, with a Diploma in Expressive Art Psychotherapy and Certified Nurse Manager and Public Health Nurse. I was also trained via an externalisation training program that was built and led by renowned pioneer Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross to achieve my qualification as an advanced facilitator As a result, I have been a member of the global network https://externalizationworkshops.com for more than 30 years. I offer my services in Swedish, Danish and English. I am a global lecturer and have among others attended world congresses in psychotherapy in Australia and South Africa as the lecturer and workshop leader. My book, "The Death Midwife" is published in English and Danish and latest article was published in the "Journal for Psychotherapy" ( 2017, 2019, 2021 and 2023 Denmark).
Following my four trips to New Zealand, I have been inspired by Māori culture - a culture unique for its profound connection to a way of life that balances spirituality, nature, creativity and tradition. My extensive travels to India, Africa and the United States also shape my appoach to my work. My offerings focus on the potential for individual transformation - the magic that can emergent life’s many turning points - and encompass integrative psychotherapy, personal development, healing following illness, expressive ecopsychotherapy and spirituality.
Education:
Registered Nurse,1975
Danish nurse registration,1976
Postgraduate training, Denmark, 1980
Advanced training, Primary Care Administration, DSH, Aarhus, Denmark, 1985
Registered Public Health Nurse, 1990
Social and Preventive Medicine 1 and 2, Master of Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 1991 and 1992
Health and Healthcare Administration, Master of Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 1994
Psychosocial Research Methodology, Master of Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, 1994
Life, Loss, Transition, New York, USA, 1998
Externalization Training Programme, Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Virginia, USA, 1998–2000
Certified Expressive Arts Psychotherapist,Denmark, 2005
Certified MPH Integrative Psychotherapist, Denmark, 2010
Registered Psychotherapist, Sweden, 2016