Matthias Barkhausen

I have worked in hospitals, retirement homes and advice centers for almost my entire professional life. For more than 25 years I have been working with great joy and passion as a consultant, coach and trainer for hospitals and the people who work in hospitals.

My specialty is supporting the development processes of my customers and clients, be they entire organizations, specific teams or individual people.

As a work and organizational psychologist, I see myself as a boundary crosser, translator and mediator between individual and organizational concerns, in conflicts between individual colleagues and cooperating professional groups, and as a midwife of corporate strategies and professional goals.

As a psychologist, coach and trainer, I accompany and advise managers of all health and social services institutions, in particular chief and senior physicians, team leaders in all departments, nursing and administrative directors and managing directors.

The most important facts about me

• 1965 Born in Hamelin
• 1985 – 1994 Geriatric and nursing care in various outpatient and (partially) inpatient facilities (including a geriatric psychiatric residential community) in Hanover and Bielefeld
• 1987 – 1994 Studied psychology and sociology at Bielefeld University with a degree in psychology
• 1995-1996 Research assistant at the IFF at Bielefeld University
• 1995-1996 Lecturer in social sciences at the therapeutic colleges, Bückeburg
• 1996-1997 Research assistant at the Chair of Psychology at the Technical University of Munich with a focus on hospital research
• 1998 – 2003 Volunteer violence advisor at Men-against-Male Violence Cologne eV
• 1998 – 2007 Senior consultant at the EVOLOG consulting firm in Cologne with a focus on management and organizational development in the healthcare and financial services sectors
• since 2008 Consultant, coach, supervisor and trainer in his own company, Barkhausen Health Care Consulting, Bad Honnef

Additional training and skills

• Further training in process and embodiment-focused psychology, PEP® (according to Dr. Bohne, Hanover)
• World Café (all in one spirit, Oberursel)
• Dynamic Facilitation (all in one spirit, Oberursel)
• Systemic consensus (K-training, tutzing)
• The Way of Council (Sylvia Koch-Weser, Nuremberg)
• Integrative and differential coaching (FPI/EAG, Hückeswagen)
• Gestalt organizational consulting (IGOR, Frankfurt)
• Violence counseling and education (IfM, Hamburg)
• Basic conversational psychotherapeutic skills (Bielefeld University)
• Basic behavioral therapy skills (Bielefeld University)
• Autogenic training (Steffens Institute, Hanover)
• Management of system constellations in leadership, research and further training contexts (Prof. Müller-Christ, Bremen) - in further training