Integrative Psychotherapy & Counseling

Early in my life I hit a wall. Severe depression. The kind where you can’t get out of bed and don’t want to continue anymore.

I found my way to therapy. Honestly, not a very good therapy — but enough to keep me from drowning. And somewhere in that process, something clicked: if working with my mind could take me from feeling really bad to feeling okay — could it also take me from feeling okay to really good? On the surface, such a simple realisation. But turning my attention from only focusing on outer circumstances to the inner landscape of the mind opened a twenty-year+ exploration into personal development, psychology, philosophy, and spirituality.

That exploration took me through many worlds.

On the outer level it meant years working in humanitarian organisations. It seemed meaningful to try to help others who were in very challenging situations. I worked with poverty, education, human rights, and post-conflict reconciliation. Especially the latter made an important impact on my therapeutic approach. Victims of war and their perpetrators talking with each other for the first time since the conflict. Sometimes understanding happened. Sometimes even forgiveness. It really shows how much is possible when the right intentions and circumstances are created — a lesson I carry with me.

On an inner level I explored everything I could find — many types of meditation, yoga, breathwork, cold immersion, shadow integration, personality types, plant medicine, and much more. Though very helpful, none of these seemed able to stand alone. I kept looking for an overarching framework. Something that could hold all of it together.

I found it, almost by accident.

I was attending a meditation retreat when a conversation in the break changed my direction. I mentioned to a fellow student that I was looking for a psychotherapy education. The teacher happened to walk past at that moment and said: Ole Vedfelt — han er et vidensfelt. It was a quiet play on words — Vedfelt, the last name, translates directly as Knowfield. So what the teacher said was: Ole Knowfield — he is a field of knowledge. I went home, read about the school and the approach, and was instantly sold.

What I found at The Vedfelt Institute was Cybernetic Psychology — a way of working with the mind as a living system. It brought together many of the things I had been exploring and gave it a coherent shape.

The outer and inner levels seem to have aligned themselves more these days, as I simultaneously found my way to Vajrayana Buddhism, which has since felt like home. As of now it’s also a home in a literal sense — I’m living and practicing at a Vajrayana Buddhist retreat centre, where I help run the place alongside my own continuing practice.

Alongside this ongoing personal practice, my therapeutic work rests on a solid foundation of formal study. Here is selected overview of the core studies and certifications that inform my practice.