Knud Thorbjørn Hansen
Supervisor · Teacher · Development Consultant
When relational grief, anxiety, stress, addiction and hopelessness take over
Does this sound familiar?
You function on the outside. Inside, you are on high alert – sleeping badly, reacting more sharply than you want to, and calm feels almost dangerous.
The love was unconditional, but no time was created for conscious heart space, heart dialogue and simply being with each other. Suddenly it was over – both left in an ambiguously complicated field of grief – and no one could understand it.
Someone you love drinks, uses, or disappears into something. And you are disappearing with them.
You talk, but never reach each other. The same argument, new words.
Your employees hold on – but not together.
We are wounded in relationships. And we heal in relationships.
This is not a figure of speech. It is how the nervous system is built. What looks like a symptom – the addiction, the anger, the withdrawal, the endless overwork – is almost always an attempt to soothe something that never found peace. That is why I do not work with the symptom alone, but with the person and the relationships they live in. Thoroughly, through the body, and without quick fixes.
How I can help
Therapy – individual, couples and family
When what you usually do no longer works.
The Addiction Therapist Training
An 18-month training for practitioners, educators and therapists who want to understand addiction as what it is: an attempt at regulation. Starts August 2027.
Addiction programme 1:1 – and help for relatives
Intensive, private treatment of addiction, dual diagnosis and trauma. Direct contact – no referral needed.
Companies and institutions
Supervision, staff development and talks for those who work with people – and wear out themselves.
About Knud
For the last 40 years I have worked with people who stood in a difficult place – in psychiatry, in addiction treatment, in companies and families. I am a registered psychotherapist (FaDP, EAP) and somatic trauma therapist. What I do rests on one question: what is the underlying pain, longing and deepest wish – the fundamentally human in what is happening here?
Meet Knud →The first conversation is a clarification – not a commitment.
20 minutes, by phone or online. You tell me what is weighing on you. I tell you honestly whether I am the right person – and if not, who is.
Book a clarification callHjerteDialog – listen to the language of the heart.
There is a lot of grief and hopelessness in the world right now. I cannot change the world – but I can help one person at a time find their footing in it.