Maria Stella Mirarchi, M. Sc.

I was born in Wiesbaden in 1994 and have Italian roots. During my psychology bachelor's I received a scholarship at the IAAP that allowed me to train in parallel as a systemic counsellor — an early foundation for my later therapeutic work.

In my subsequent master's I first pursued a research-oriented path: as a research associate at the Centre for Criminology (KrimZ) in Wiesbaden I contributed to research projects in the forensic field. To this day, expert questions of criminal responsibility and crime as a psychological phenomenon remain focal points of my work.

My clinical work began in the acute setting and continued on a ward for personality and trauma-related disorders. There I first worked with schema therapy and completed the schema-therapy training alongside my training in cognitive behavioural therapy. Through Prof. Dr. Alexander Noyon I also came to know existential psychotherapy, whose focus on meaning, responsibility and growth remains part of my stance today.

In 2023 I completed my licensing as a psychological psychotherapist and that same year became deputy lead psychologist at the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the Helios Dr. Horst Schmidt Kliniken in Wiesbaden. Since 2025 I have also taught as a lecturer at several universities and contribute to research projects and publications.

My focus areas include personality disorders, anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorders and trauma-related disorders, as well as accompanying people through acute life crises and counselling for personal growth. Throughout, an authentic and human encounter at eye level matters most to me. I speak German, English and Italian.

Languages

German · English · Italian

Focus

Behavioural therapy · Schema therapy · Existential therapy · Systemic