JENNY WINKLER
About
My name is [placeholder: full name]. For more than ten years I have accompanied people through transitions in which their image of the world and of themselves begins to slip. From my own experience I know how unsettling that is — and how much dignity lies in the search itself.
I believe worldview crises are turning points — not defects. They mark moments when an old story no longer holds and a new one has not yet taken shape.
Growing up in an environment open to faith, doubt and many forms of searching, I learned early that apparent contradictions can coexist. That insight continues to shape my work.
Out of that experience weltlich Beratung emerged — as a protected space for the questions that remain. For seekers, leavers, returners, doubters, hopers. For everyone who is on the way.
Growing up in an environment where faith was everything, I should have felt at home. Instead, I sensed early how narrow it gets when answers matter more than questions — and how lonely it becomes when your own searching falls outside the frame.
Years later, in encounters with people from very different traditions, I understood: there is a space beyond conversion and demarcation. A space where searching may be taken seriously without anyone trying to sell a quick solution.
As a systemic counselor I keep seeing the same patterns: people ashamed of their doubts. Families where a change of belief becomes a rupture. Institutions unsure how to deal with existential questions.
Out of that experience weltlich Beratung emerged — as a protected space for the questions that remain. For seekers, leavers, returners, doubters, hopers. For everyone who is on the way.
a glimpse INTO MY EVERYDAY
MY RETREAT
THE FOREST
a little bit ABOUT ME
FAVORITE BOOK:
the GRAND INQUISITOR– DOSTOEVSKY
PLACE OF POWER:
by the SEA& in the FOREST
FAVORITE DISH:
Pellkartoffelnwith quark
IF NOT A COUNSELOR:
I would WRITE
FAVORITE BAND:
ArcticMonkeys
FAVORITE SEASON:
Winter andChristmas
JENNY WINKLER
Official Bio
Jenny Winkler is a social worker, author of “Aus der Welt”, and founder of a systemic counselling approach for worldview, existential and spiritual crises — a framework that shows how belief, doubt and belonging shape how we experience meaning and connection.
As the youngest child in a religiously diverse family, Jenny experienced early how formative and painful worldview belongings can be. Drawing on systemic theory, attachment research and her longstanding practice, she developed an approach that begins where classical counselling often ends: with the existential questions that remain when a belief system carries us — or no longer does.
As a recognised specialist on worldview questions and destructive groups, Jenny has been quoted in various media and professional publications. She is also a sought-after speaker, delivering talks and workshops for universities, counselling centres, religious and secular organisations, schools and NGOs.
Jenny holds a Master’s degree in Social Work and has worked across various fields of psychosocial care, including counselling for leavers and their relatives and leading a specialist unit on conspiracy narratives, esotericism and the Reichsbürger milieu. Her work focuses on people in worldview transitions — those moments when an old picture of the world no longer holds and a new one has not yet taken shape. Jenny lives and works in Berlin.
