As a medical psychotherapist and executive coach, I often deal with people who have been made ill by their work or the work context. Managers often get in touch wanting to know how they can help their employees to stay healthy in these challenging times with constantly changing working conditions. We regularly find that it is actually the organization that needs support because it is suffering from its own ailments and - in secret - consuming too much and, above all, unnecessary energy.
About me
- Since 2016, I have been Medical Director of the Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy at the Medical Center - University of Freiburg.
- In addition to my training as a medical specialist and psychotherapist, I have completed several coaching courses and obtained an Executive Master of Change at INSEAD
to support organizations and teams in their transformation. - In addition to individual and team coaching sessions, I have also been offering workshops and keynote speeches for many years on topics such as healthy leadership, resilience and the psychological foundations of change management.
- Through my research work, I know that my skills and tools, which I use daily in clinical psychotherapy, can also be successfully transferred to the world of work - for healthier people in healthier companies.
- Together with my team, we implement tailor-made and long-term concepts at the interface of occupational and organizational psychology, occupational psychosomatics and occupational health management.
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Main topics
- What makes a healthy working environment - four principles for a workplace where everyone feels good
- Get off the hamster wheel - practical advice and proven solutions for consistently improving stressful work situations
- The workplace is a place of relationships - simple strategies for more harmony
Your organization on the couch - using psychotherapy tools to identify the challenges facing your organization
- Why we often act differently than we think - the role of unconscious conflicts, defence mechanisms and emotions in organizations
- Therapy to go - healing strategies from psychodynamic organizational consulting
- The interaction of body and mind - how this interaction unconsciously guides us
- Using body language consciously - increasing productivity and team dynamics through non-verbal signals
- Life hacks for everyday working life - how insights from embodiment research keep us healthy and productive
- We are at the beginning of a workforce crisis - how do I navigate my employees through turbulent times unscathed?
- Leading by example - Why healthy self-management is the basic prerequisite for healthy leadership. And how to achieve it
- The principle of psychological safety - how a trusting working environment strengthens health and innovation
- Stable, but not rigid - the latest findings from brain research and psychology
- Resilience is not the color of your eyes - practical strategies to train mental resilience and adaptability
- Finding the good in the bad - how to reprogram my evaluation system
Publications
- Lahmann C (2014). Psychosomatic primary care for functional physical complaints and chronic pain. In: Angerer, [...], Lahmann, Henningsen (eds.). Psychische und psychosomatische Gesundheit in der Arbeit - Wissenschaft, Erfahrungen, Lösungen aus Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitspsychologie und Psychosomatischer Medizin. Heidelberg: EcomedMedicine.
- Lahmann C (2014). Basics of conversation and verbal intervention techniques for psychosomatic primary care. In: Angerer, [...], Lahmann, Henningsen (eds.). Psychische und psychosomatische Gesundheit in der Arbeit - Wissenschaft, Erfahrungen, Lösungen aus Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitspsychologie und Psychosomatischer Medizin. Heidelberg: EcomedMedicine.
- Lahmann C (2014). Crisis intervention. In: Angerer, [...], Lahmann, Henningsen (eds.). Psychische und psychosomatische Gesundheit in der Arbeit - Wissenschaft, Erfahrungen, Lösungen aus Arbeitsmedizin, Arbeitspsychologie und Psychosomatischer Medizin. Heidelberg: EcomedMedicine.
- Ronel J, Schäfert R, [...], Lahmann C, [...], Hausteiner-Wiehle C (2013). Diagnostic procedure. In: Hausteiner-Wiehle, Henningsen, Häuser, Herrmann, Ronel, Sattel, Schäfert (eds.). Management of patients with non-specific, functional and somatoform physical complaints. S3 guideline with source texts, practice materials and patient guidelines. Stuttgart: Schattauer, pp. 83-119.
- Lahmann C, Dinkel A (2012). Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). In: Letzel, Nowak (eds.). Handbook of occupational medicine. Heidelberg: ecomedMedicine.
- PISO working group (Gündel H, [...], Lahmann C et al.) (2011): Psychodynamic interpersonal therapy for somatoform disorders. Göttingen: Hogrefe.
- Lahmann C, Sattel H, Sauer N, Henningsen P (2011). Somatoform disorders - basics. In: PISO working group (ed.): Psychodynamic interpersonal therapy for somatoform disorders. Göttingen: Hogrefe, pp. 8-17.
- Noll-Hussong M, Lahmann C, Sattel H (2011). Somatoform disorders - diagnosis and indication. In: PISO working group (ed.): Psychodynamic interpersonal therapy for somatoform disorders. Göttingen: Hogrefe, pp. 35-43.
- Gündel H, Kruse J, Lahmann C, Ronel J, Schneider G (2011). General therapy principles and phases of PISO intervention. In: PISO working group (ed.): Psychodynamic interpersonal therapy for somatoform disorders. Göttingen: Hogrefe, pp. 44-65.
- Noll-Hussong M, Gündel H, Lahmann C, Henningsen P (2011). Somatoform disorders. In: Schiepek G (ed.). Neurobiology of psychotherapy. Stuttgart: Schattauer, pp. 509-22.
- Lahmann C (2009). FE and science - use of FE elements in dental anxiety. In: Herholz, Johnen, Schweitzer (Eds.). Functional relaxation: The practice book. Stuttgart: Schattauer, pp. 183-7.
- Lahmann C (2009). FE manualized - FE for somatoform heart complaints. In: Herholz, Johnen, Schweitzer (Eds.). Functional relaxation: The practice book. Stuttgart: Schattauer, pp. 243-6.
- Lahmann C (2009). Somatoform disorders. In: Berthele (ed.). Clinical guide to neurology. Munich: Elsevier, pp. 1010-5.
- Lahmann C (2009) Reactions to severe stress and adjustment disorders.
- In: Berthele (ed.). Clinical guide to neurology. Munich: Elsevier, pp. 1016-9.
- Lahmann C (2003) Psychosomatic information transfer and functional relaxation in functional heart complaints. Baden-Baden: Deutscher Wissenschaftsverlag.
- Lahmann C (1995) Hetaera esmeralda - The significance of illness for art in Thomas Mann's novel Doctor Faustus. Frankfurt: R.G. Fischer.
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