About me

Monika Broecker is a California-licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (USA), practicing in Germany as a Psychologist and Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie, and an Executive Coach with over 25 years of experience working with individuals, couples, and leaders facing complex personal and professional challenges. She offers psychotherapy in Germany within the legal framework of the Heilpraktikergesetz. Her work integrates systemic, strategic, solution-focused, and somatic approaches, with a strong emphasis on clarity, relational dynamics, and sustainable change.She trained and worked at the Mental Research Institute (MRI) in Palo Alto with Paul Watzlawick and Richard Fisch, and studied Solution-Focused Brief Therapy directly with Steve de Shazer and Insoo Kim Berg. Her professional lineage is deeply rooted in systemic thinking and cybernetics, including close collaboration with Heinz von Foerster, with whom she co-authored Teil der Welt (Part of the World).Alongside her clinical work, Monika Broecker has an extensive background in leadership and executive development. She worked as an executive coach at Meta (Facebook) for eight years and founded the School of Personal Growth at Google, where she helped develop People Manager Development programs and was part of the founding team of the Search Inside Yourself program, a mindfulness-based emotional intelligence curriculum for leaders. Her work has focused on bringing systemic and relational thinking into complex organizational contexts, bridging psychological depth with real-world leadership demands.Today, Monika Broecker maintains an exclusive private practice in Berkeley and Mountain View, California (USA)as well as in Düsseldorf/Haan, Germany, and works internationally online. Her practice serves executives, leaders, and internationally oriented clients who operate across cultural, organizational, and personal systems, and who are seeking depth-oriented, pragmatic psychotherapy rather than standardized treatment models.