The most valuable thing I have to offer is my sheer presence. Just be with her/him ... stop trying to say something wise and clever. Don't look for some grandiose interpretation that will tip the scales. Your only task is to give her/him your undivided presence. Trust that she/he will take away everything she/he needs from the session.

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Christian Gutzelnig

Psychotherapy as a field of work allows me to explore completely different and ever-new perspectives on people compared to my consulting activities in organizations. I am repeatedly thrilled when I see my clients blossom as they recognize new, and perhaps better, perspectives for themselves. When they smile or even laugh, I feel that something better, lighter, or more beautiful has emerged within them.

More about my life

I was born in Vienna in 1972 and, from a very early age in my childhood, was convinced that I wanted to become a police officer, just like my father. A plan that would change over the course of my development. I spent my childhood in Lower Austria, near Vienna. After the (too) early death of my father and primary school, I attended a grammar school in the large city of Vienna. After completing the lower level, I switched to a higher institution for tourism (Tourism Schools ‘Modul’) and graduated in 1991.

Firmly convinced that I only wanted to be a guest in the hotel and catering industry in the future, I began studying Business Administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 1992. With my vocational background, practical work was not unfamiliar to me, and I started working in various companies during my studies.

After many years working as a consultant in organizations at home and abroad, founding my own consulting company, and completing another degree focusing on groups and organizations, my interest in the processes that drive us as humans, help us make decisions, and in the factors that can limit or hinder our lives began to come to the forefront … and with that, my interest in the human psyche and, ultimately, psychotherapy. Initially also working as a certified life and social counselor, I completed the psychotherapeutic propaedeutic training and, after admission by the Ministry of Health, the specialization in existential analysis at the Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis (GLE Austria).

As of July 1, 2021, in addition to my work at my consulting firm, I also began working as a psychotherapist in training under supervision in private practice in Vienna. In October 2024, I was officially registered in the list of psychotherapists by the Ministry of Health.
Privately, I am in a happy relationship with my wife, who is a doctor and a psychotherapist in training, and I am proud to be the father of an adult daughter.

education and further training

Christian Gutzelnig Psychotherapeut
  • ongoing training in sex and couples therapy (ÖAGG)
  • “existential grounding” (existential-analytic bodywork, GLE)
  • training in psychotraumatology (GLE)
  • seminars on psychotropic medications and Long COVID
  • further training in child and adolescent psychotherapy (GLE)
  • psychotherapeutic internship at Station 6B (inpatient psychosomatics) of the Clinical Department of Social Psychiatry, University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna
  • university program in Existential Analysis and Logotherapy at the University of Salzburg & psychotherapeutic specialization (GLE)
  • psychotherapeutic propaedeutic training (VRP)
  • life and social counseling
  • training as a business mediator
  • university program in organizational development at the Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research and Continuing Education, University of Klagenfurt
  • studies in business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business

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Mag. Christian Gutzelnig, MSc. MSc.

psychotherapist | existential analysis

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