Anxiety & inner restlessness
Anxiety, panic attacks and uncertainty that affect your experience and everyday life.
Psychoanalytic practice in ViennaSpace for what
Space for what
moves you.
Psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
A place where thoughts, feelings and your personal story can find words.
Arrange an initial consultationDr. Sarah Deutsch · Grünangergasse 12/19 · 1010 Vienna
In my Vienna practiceThe psychoanalytic perspectiveUnderstanding what repeats.
Understanding what repeats.
Discovering what becomes possible.
Sometimes we experience feelings, conflicts or relationship patterns whose origins are not immediately clear to us. Psychoanalysis also attends to the unconscious connections that shape our experience.
Within a reliable therapeutic setting, there is room to speak about what concerns you: memories, wishes, fears, dreams and contradictions. What is difficult to put into words, what recurs, and what emerges in the therapeutic relationship also matters.
Your individual story is at the centre of the work. Together, we create space for a deeper understanding of yourself and for new ways of relating to yourself and others.
Therapeutic servicesWhat may bring you
What may bring you
to my practice.
I work with children, adolescents, adults and older people, including those in advanced old age. We begin with your personal situation and what you wish to change or understand more deeply.
Crises & exhaustion
Difficult periods in life, burnout and questions of prevention.
Trauma & emotional distress
Working through distressing experiences and their psychological consequences.
Couple therapy & relationships
Support with relationship conflicts, partnership and marital difficulties, separation and divorce.
Sexuality
Counselling and psychoanalytic treatment for sexual difficulties and disorders.
Sleep difficulties
Sleep and psychological experience are a focus of my clinical and research work.
Personality & self-exploration
Personality development, personality disorders and the exploration of personal wishes and relationship patterns.
Children, adolescents & parents
Psychological difficulties in childhood and adolescence, as well as parenting guidance.
Ageing & life transitions
Ageing, and guidance and support for relatives of people living with dementia.
Forms of therapy & settingA setting
A setting
that suits you.
Whether classical psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy: the form and frequency of sessions are discussed together during the initial consultation.
The initial consultation offers space for your concerns and questions, and for discussing how we might work together, including fees and practical arrangements.
Personal therapy for students
I offer psychoanalytic personal therapy for students as part of the psychotherapeutic propaedeutic programme.
Partial reimbursement by health insurance
We can discuss the possibility of partial reimbursement of treatment costs by your health insurer and the corresponding application together.
- Classical psychoanalysis
- Psychoanalytic psychotherapy
- Individual, couple and group therapy
- Online psychotherapy and video consultations
- Visits to hospitals and residential care homes
- Therapy and counselling with interpreter support
Sessions in German and English. Support with an interpreter in Russian and Ukrainian by arrangement.
About me
Dr. Sarah Deutsch
Psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Vienna
My work is rooted in the classical psychoanalytic tradition. The individual life story, unconscious conflicts and the therapeutic relationship are central to my approach.
Since moving from studying human medicine at the Medical University of Vienna to psychotherapy science in 2012, psychoanalysis, clinical work and research have been at the heart of my professional path.
Alongside my psychotherapeutic practice, my research focuses on sleep disorders and co-occurring mental health conditions. Research and professional lectures complement my clinical work.
On my Instagram account, I also explore the connections between psychoanalysis, the psyche and hunting.View Instagram ↗
Watch the podcast on YouTube ↗
Background & qualificationsClinical work.
Clinical work.
A research perspective.
Education & professional path
Studies in human medicine at the Medical University of Vienna; a move to psychotherapy science at Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna in 2012. Focus on psychoanalysis.
Clinical practice
Psychotherapeutic work in private practice, as well as consultative work at Wiener Privatklinik and the Rudolfinerhaus outpatient centre.
Research & lectures
Research into non-organic insomnia, co-occurring mental health conditions and psychotherapeutic treatment options. Professional lectures complement this work.
My new practice in central ViennaA place to speak.
A place to speak.
And to be heard.
Welcome to my practice in Grünangergasse.
The practice in central Vienna offers a protected setting for exploring personal questions and inner conflicts.
There is time here for personal conversation and for exploring your own experience. Confidentiality and a reliable therapeutic setting are central.
ResearchResearch focus:
Research focus:
sleep.
My research explores non-organic insomnia, co-occurring mental health conditions and psychotherapeutic treatment options.
Primary and psychiatrically “comorbid” non-organic insomnia in a neurologist-led sleep laboratory.
Die primäre und die psychiatrisch-„komorbide“, nichtorganische Insomnie in einem neurologisch geführten Schlaflabor.
psychopraxis. neuropraxis · PublicationCognitive behavioural therapy for non-organic insomnia: initial results from a prospective case series in a neurologist-led sleep laboratory.
Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie der nichtorganischen Insomnie – Erste Ergebnisse der prospektiven Fallserie eines neurologisch geführten Schlaflabors.
psychopraxis. neuropraxis · PublicationMedia
Psychoanalytic perspectives in public discussion
Working through pandemic-related trauma
Die ganze WOCHE · Media article featuring expert commentary by Sarah Deutsch-LangAn article on the psychological impact of the pandemic and the importance of processing these experiences.
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Professional affiliations
- Austrian Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (ÖGKJP)
- Psychoanalytic Institute Innsbruck (PSI)
- International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP)
- Austrian Society for Sleep Medicine and Sleep Research (ÖGSM / ASRA)
- Vienna Regional Hunting Association
- Lower Austrian Regional Hunting Association
Contact & initial consultationIt begins with
It begins with
a conversation.
If you are considering whether psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic psychotherapy might be right for you, you are welcome to contact me.
Request an initial consultation+43 664 916 57 08psychoanalysis@sarahdeutsch.at
Appointments by arrangement.
Grünangergasse 12/19 · 1010 Vienna