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About
Village Therapy
Why "Village"
Village Therapy is a group practice in central Copenhagen for internationals and the people they share their lives with. Ariel Andersen founded it in 2025, a few years after moving to Denmark herself, because the practice she wanted to recommend to people didn't exist yet. She was looking for a place where you could find therapy in your own language without a long wait, choose from a range of approaches, and work with someone who understands what it's like to build a life in a new country.
The name comes from the old saying that it takes a village to raise a child. Most of us grow up surrounded by some version of that village, with family nearby, old friends, neighbours, and people who know our history without needing it explained. Moving abroad often means leaving much of it behind. Many of the people who come to us are, in one way or another, trying to build a new one, and we'd like to be part of that.
Our team
Our therapists are psychologists and psychotherapists from across Europe and beyond, and between them they work in English, German, Danish, Italian, Croatian, Portuguese, and Hungarian. They also trained in many different traditions, from structured approaches like CBT and exposure therapy to existential, body-oriented, and creative work. That variety is deliberate. People arrive with different histories and different ideas about what will help, and we want as many of them as possible to find someone who fits.
Each therapist runs their own practice under the Village Therapy name and brings their own way of working. All of them are members of either the Danish Psychological Association or the Danish Psychotherapy Association, which means they follow shared codes of ethics and confidentiality and take part in regular supervision.
What we care about
The values we work by are openness, serenity, courage, and community. Day to day, that means caring about each client, approaching our work with humility, and shaping therapy around the person in the room. It also means taking life abroad seriously as part of the picture, alongside everything else people bring.