Meeting with Marion Aufseesser - Psychologist and Coach
What is KIT - Keep in
Touch - and how can it help you?
KIT -- Keep in Touch
-- is a counselling process and technique that helps people achieve lasting
change and positive results. Developed by psychologist and counsellor Marion Aufseesser and based on more than 20 years of
working with individuals and groups, KIT provides adults and adolescents with
the skills and support they need to move forward and achieve their goals. KIT
is essentially based on the cognitive and behavioural therapy
approach.
KIT's Philosophy Be yourself. Everybody else is taken!
It is Marion's wish to help individuals gain the inner freedom they need to
access their full potential.
KIT's Mission
To share and provide clients with the tools necessary
to become and stay independent.
To empower individuals to focus on personal growth
and change.
To foster sustainable personal and career
development.
Who are KITS's clients?
KIT provides
counselling services for:
Adults
Young adults/Adolescents
What are the issues KIT can help to
resolve?
For individuals, KIT's focus is on:
Self Esteem
Cognitive Restructuring
Conflict Resolution
Stress Prevention
BOP: Burn-Out Prevention
Exam Preparation
Interview Preparation
Presentations
Meeting Participation
Career Transition
Creative Networking
Motivational Issues
And for teams, KIT can provide
team-building based on the above focus areas.
KIT
provides both individual and group sessions. Which setting is preferable is
based upon the needs of each client. In some cases group and individual
sessions will be recommended.
Why does KIT produce lasting
results?
KIT is successful because:
KIT takes its origins from the cognitive and
behavioural approach and is grounded with more than 50 years knowledge and
experience.
KIT works "inside out": clients are truly empowered.
They are not taught to do something by rote which then obviously fails when the
going gets tough (i.e. when it's real life and not role play).
What tools does KIT use?
First and
foremost "tools" are chosen for their appropriateness to the client and his/her
situation. KIT uses only validated tools either from the Cognitive and
Behavioural Sciences or other validated tools such as the MBTI, 16PF, and
FIRO.
KIT is a creative and flexible method. Therefore, the tools evolve
and are also designed with and by the client on a step-by-step approach in
accordance with the cognitive and behavioural method.
How long are
the sessions?
KIT sessions vary in length and in frequency. The
initial session will usually last for about one hour. More often than not the
client will then meet with Marion for a number of sessions over a limited
period of time. The length of the following sessions will usually be between 1
and 1.5 hours duration depending on the issue.
Minors will preferably
be accompanied by their parents for this initial meeting.
Group
workshops will be designed to meet the client's needs. Typically a workshop
module for adolescents and young adults will run for 18 hours broken up into 3
hour sessions.
Group workshops will last from one to three days over a
limited time period.
What is the purpose of the initial
session?
The objective of the initial session is to define the scope
of the work to be done.
Marion holds a Masters degree in Psychology and a
diploma in Cognitive and Behavioural Strategies from the University of Geneva,
Switzerland. In addition, she has a degree in health psychology from the
University of Lausanne as well as extensive training in different techniques
accumulated over the course of her career. She is also a trained teacher
(Oberseminar, Zürich).
Marion Aufseesser founded KIT in 1994 during
an expatriation in Hong Kong. Her mission: to help expatriates and their
families on the move. She created and led workshops and counselled clients
individually during her three year stay there.
Back in Switzerland,
Marion resumed her activities in the career transition field with one of the
leading outplacement companies, empowering clients during their career
transition period. For many years, she also redesigned and led post-career
preparation workshops. Her career began in the medical field: Marion worked as
a psychologist at the Geneva Hospital in the diabetes treatment and teaching
unit. (Prof. Jean Philippe Assal)
Marion also lectures the Career
Counselling and Lifestyle Graduate Course at Webster University (Geneva
Campus). Marion runs her own counselling practice where she focuses on career
development and management. Having realized that very often the barriers to
success are not technical but personal, Marion developed her personal career
enhancement programme. She found it to be very effective with adolescents and
young adults as well as with adults. Her activities have led her to become very
interested in stress prevention and stress management. She joined Dr. Patrick
Légeron and his team several years ago and is now opening their Swiss
subsidiary. (www.stimulus-conseil.com)
Marion holds a Masters degree in Psychology and a
diploma in Cognitive and Behavioural Strategies from the University of Geneva,
Switzerland. In addition, she has a degree in health psychology from the
University of Lausanne as well as extensive training in different techniques
accumulated over the course of her career. She is also a trained teacher
(Oberseminar, Zürich).