Karin Wolf

Karin Wolf is a relaxation therapist and stress management specialist who works from her practice in Germering, near Munich, and online. She is a Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie, a certified teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) and an IFS therapist. Since 2010 she has accompanied people who want to let go of stress and live more calmly, and she has specialised for many years in stress-related symptoms and illnesses.

Her approach rests on the view that effective stress management is never one single thing. It combines several strategies that fit the individual: some work on the causes of stress, others on recovery and balance. She works with people to build a personal plan, ease their particular stress triggers, and bring more relaxation into everyday life step by step. Depending on a person's situation and diagnosis, this happens in a therapeutic or a coaching setting.

Her work draws on autogenic training, progressive muscle relaxation, meditation and mindfulness, and imagination. Self-compassion, meaning the ability to treat oneself and one's inner parts with kindness, is for her the foundation of relaxation, well-being and quality of life. She also teaches MSC, the programme developed by Kristin Neff and Chris Germer.

Karin also shares guided exercises and meditations for practising on your own, such as the Self-Compassion Break from the MSC programme and a mindful "walk of joy" that turns attention to pleasant things along the way. She has also led online retreats on joy and lightness in everyday life.