Amihan Zemp

“If life has any meaning at all,
then suffering must also have meaning.”

-Viktor Frankl

Through intense engagement with my own inner processes, I have come to experience that the meaning of pain begins to unfold when we turn toward it with sincerity and honesty.
Where we allow what feels uncomfortable or unwanted, a space can open within us for something meaningful.

My work accompanies you into this movement.

It is grounded in the belief that allowing and acknowledging what is unwanted, difficult, or flawed is not meant to eliminate it, but can open a path to something essential within you. My work speaks to the capacity in you that can hold your inner movements and offer them direction.

I work intuitively, combining inquiry and exploration, compassionate and attuned — and at the same time direct and confrontational. The work with inner parts is central.
In addition to dialogue, I incorporate creative and expressive approaches and the integration of the body, for example through movement or body awareness, to engage additional sensory channels and access the unconscious.

Possible Areas of Focus

• Loneliness
• Depression and existential crises of meaning
• Excessive fears and internal blockages
• Anger and suppressed emotions
• Separation and loss
• Unwanted behavior patterns that repeatedly lead to difficulties and conflicts
• Inner conflicts and difficulties in making decisions

My Approach

With my guidance, we turn toward what is unwanted and disturbing — toward the inner resistance. Through targeted questions, I help uncover contradictions that often arise from conflicting, battling, or neglected inner parts.

Carefully, we explore these parts: how does their suffering manifest? What purpose do they serve, and what underlying beliefs are they rooted in? What do these parts specifically need from you and where do they want to lead you?

When we connect with the suffering of these parts, self-compassion can begin to emerge, allowing us to form a new relationship with pain and opening the door to a shift in perspective. We begin to understand it in a new light, recognizing its purpose and what it seeks to reveal. Through consciously entering into relationship with these inner parts, the experience of pain does not necessarily change — it may remain part of our inner landscape — but our capacity to hold it does.
And through that, a sense of inner aliveness returns, clarity emerges, and new capacity for action and creation becomes accessible.

This process unveils new, often unexpected perspectives and gradually strengthens trust in our own path.

Within this, I understand the meaning of pain and the work I do.

Background and Experience

• Ongoing professional training in Process-Oriented Psychology (IPA, Zurich)
• Training as a Holistic - Psychological Coach (IKP, Zurich)
• Trauma-sensitive bodywork through yoga (Eve Eichenberger, Zurich)
• Advanced training in Nonviolent Communication (Livio Lunin, Zurich)
• Advanced training in process work using creative methods (Marianne Sinner, Zurich)  
• Extensive personal process work and self-exploration with Martin Boss (Pfad der Kraft, Oberdiessbach)
• Academic studies in Religious Studies (University of Fribourg / Mejiro University Tokyo)

Contact

Holzmatt 7, 8046 Zürich

Phone: +41 (0)77 440 87 31

Individual sessions last 60 to 90 minutes. We meet in Zurich or online via Zoom. By arrangement, sessions in nature or as a walk are also possible. The fee is agreed individually.

Feel welcome to reach out at amihan@amihan.ch