Bigna Lenggenhager

Offer and Approach
There are phases in life when it can be helpful to develop new perspectives together with professional guidance. I support you in (re)discovering your own resources, expanding your scope for action, and gaining clarity for your next steps. My work is based on a (hypno-)systemic and resource-oriented approach: I see each person as part of a larger context and focus on strengths and possibilities. Depending on your concerns and what fits best, I also incorporate imaginative, body-based, and mindfulness-based methods. My counseling approach is characterized by curiosity and creativity: I fully engage with the person in front of me, with the goal of providing individual and holistic support and finding solutions together.

Work Experience
Since 2025: Psychological and academic counselor at Praxis 43, Zurich
Since 2024: Psychotherapist, Psychosomatic-Psychiatric Therapy Unit, Zurich Children’s Hospital
Since 2024: Academic and career counselor, Nolten, Zurich
Since 2023: Lecturer in General Psychology, Kalaidos University of Applied Sciences, Zurich
2022–2023: Professor of General Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Konstanz (Germany)
2017–2022: Assistant Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Department of Psychology, University of Zurich
2013–2017: Head of Research Group, Neuropsychology, University Hospital Zurich
2012–2013: Postdoctoral researcher, University Psychiatric Services Bern
2010–2011: Postdoctoral researcher, Sapienza University and Fondazione Santa Lucia (Rome, Italy)
2005–2009: Doctoral researcher, EPFL Lausanne (Thesis: “Multisensory mechanisms underlying self-consciousness”)

Education
Since 2024: Federally recognized psychotherapy training at Wilob (Lenzburg)
2005–2009: PhD in Neuroscience at EPFL (Lausanne)
2000–2004: Psychology studies (Neuropsychology, Psychopathology, and Neuroanatomy) at the University of Zurich