As a Graduate Psychologist and Psychotherapist, Dietmar Luchmann is a pioneer of Cognitive Psychotherapy and promotes efficiency in psychotherapy. He completely replaced the expensive exposure exercises of behavioral therapy, conducted in the company of psychotherapists, with the more efficient Cognitive Psychotherapy. With the lockdown in March 2020, he introduced Written Cognitive Psychotherapy (WCP) as online psychotherapy.
As the owner of the Anxiety Clinic on Lake Zurich, Dietmar Luchmann guided fearful contemporaries to mental sovereignty and freedom from pathological anxiety. In the Anxiety Clinic, he helped overcome anxiety and panic disorders, phobias, burnout, and depression through direct conversation or in psychotherapeutic day-blocks in "an average of ten hours," as observed by the newspaper Tagesspiegel.
"His maxim is: efficient treatments, limited to an average of ten hours – instead of years-long therapies 'in which therapists exploit their clients'."
Tagesspiegel, Berlin, Aug 20, 2004, p.25, regarding Psychotherapist Dietmar Luchmann
Written Cognitive Psychotherapy by Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, makes overcoming anxiety disorders, panic attacks, phobias, burnout, and depression even more efficient. As online psychotherapy, it liberates clients from the travel and scheduling constraints of the Anxiety Clinic on Lake Zurich.
As an author, Dietmar Luchmann combines clinical experience with scientifically grounded knowledge transfer, explaining the possibilities and limits of psychotherapy. This includes his risk analyses regarding the use of "Artificial Intelligence" in psychotherapy and Chatbots as Psychotherapists.
Online Psychotherapy at Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC
If your goal is to ascend to the summit of your mental sovereignty, the appropriate, intellectually demanding, absolutely discreet, and solution-oriented Cognitive Psychotherapy by Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC awaits you.
Rapid and lasting success is based on a procedure perfectly tailored to your personal requirements. The collaborative work can take place entirely as online psychotherapy via WCP. Likewise, individual arrangements involving direct encounters are possible, ranging from a house call to a forest walk.
The guarantor of success for this is a clear working agreement:
Your psychologist and psychotherapist delivers the expertise and guidance; you deliver the engagement — and the indispensable "honesty with oneself," as Dietmar Luchmann explained in an interview on leadership training on Deutschlandfunk.
Early healing of self-damaging thinking prevents chronification, career breaks, hospital stays, personal crashes, divorces, and suicides.
If mental health is recognized as an existential value, sustainable success through Cognitive Psychotherapy with the highly gifted and executives suffering from burnout, anxiety disorders, depression, psychosomatic, and other issues is possible faster than anticipated, as shown by the experience of Dietmar Luchmann.
The Goal: Mental Sovereignty
You manage assets, lead companies, or bear responsibility that would crush others. Yet the greatest challenge is not the market – it is the noise of a world increasingly losing its orientation.
Do you feel surrounded by incompetence? Do you sense the irrational hectic pace of the zeitgeist gnawing at your inner fortress? Are you seeking not "comfort," but an intellectual weapon to restore your ability to act?
Welcome. You are in the right place. Here you will receive cognitive strategies for personalities who cannot afford weakness. Here you will regain your mental sovereignty.
The Path: Psychotherapeutic Precision instead of Chatter
Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, offers excellent psychological problem diagnostics, but no endless navel-gazing into the past. Cognitive Psychotherapy and the Stoic realism of antiquity are high-performance medicine for your mind, not psychoanalytic talking cures. Your psychotherapist does not correct "feelings"; he corrects the cognitive errors that generate these feelings.
The goal is not happiness. The goal is unshakeability. Epictetus said 2000 years ago: "It is not things themselves that trouble people, but their judgments about things." Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, teaches you to erect a mental firewall between the noise of the outside world and your inner reaction. So that you may find your peace of mind and act again, rather than merely reacting.
The Target Group: Self-Thinkers
Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, works exclusively with self-payers who are capable and willing to think for themselves, read for themselves, and write for themselves, as well as take full personal responsibility:
People who suffer from loneliness in society because they are different, as well as those who suffer from loneliness at the top and the pressure of permanent decision-making.
People seeking meaning in a world of abundance or standing under the burden of inheritance and family dysfunction.
People whose realism allows them to recognize that "burnout" is often just another word for the loss of cognitive control.
People who wish to find their authentic self and their inner peace of mind — free from pathological anxiety and depression.
Psychotherapist Dietmar Luchmann is not the right partner if you seek pity or wish to remain in the victim role. Cognitive Psychotherapy is change work on one's own thinking. It is confrontational, analytical, and highly effective.
The Method: Cognitive Architecture
Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, utilizes the most modern findings of psychology and neuroscience as well as the timeless logic of the Stoics to restructure your thinking:
- Analysis: Your psychotherapist dissects your stressors and thought patterns with surgical precision.
- Recalibration: Your psychotherapist identifies the logical errors in your perception. He disempowers the expectation of an imperfect world.
- Implementation: You receive mental tools that you can apply immediately in the boardroom or in private life.
The result: You no longer view crises as catastrophes, but as data. If something is taken from you, your world does not collapse. You remain capable of action.
The Framework: Perfection
Absolute Discretion: Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, is like a vault. Communication with the psychotherapist takes place with military-grade end-to-end encryption. No waiting room encounters.
Efficiency: We waste no time. Every session has a goal.
Excellence: Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, offers you what you expect in your own profession: The highest professional competence, paired with a razor-sharp mind that meets you at eye level.
Thus, you regain control. Do not wait until the chaos of the world destroys your inner order. Contact Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC beforehand.
Contact Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC
Test yourself and write, or book an initial consultation for an assessment of your situation.
Suitability Assessment
In the first step, determine how well Written Cognitive Psychotherapy by Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, aligns with your needs. The anonymous and complimentary suitability assessment provides the answer in less than two minutes.
Goal Definition
In the second step, follow the instructions on the form and describe the situation you wish to improve and the resistances you intend to overcome. Within 24 hours, you will receive a complimentary response from Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, containing an offer or a recommendation.
Telephone Consultation
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Professional Qualifications of Dietmar Luchmann
Studies in Psychology and Psychotherapy
From 1978 to 1983, Dietmar Luchmann studied Psychology at the Humboldt University of Berlin and graduated as a Diplom-Psychologe (Graduate Psychologist) with the distinction "Excellent".
From 1983 to 1993, Dietmar Luchmann completed various training programs as a psychotherapist for Cognitive Psychotherapy and Behavioral Therapy and held positions as a scientific research assistant at the Institute for Neurobiology and Brain Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, at the Faculty of Medicine (Charité) of the Humboldt University of Berlin, the Ruhr University Bochum, and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, as well as a psychotherapist for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy at the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University of Tübingen.
Over 30 Years of Professional Practice as a Psychotherapist
From 1993 to 2004, Dietmar Luchmann led the Anxiety Clinic Stuttgart and was a psychotherapist for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy with licensure for psychotherapy for the Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians in Stuttgart. His efficient cognitive anxiety therapy made him known throughout the region.
In 2004, Psychotherapist Dietmar Luchmann moved to Switzerland, opened a private practice for Cognitive Psychotherapy in Zug in the summer of the same year, and founded the Anxiety Clinic on Lake Zurich with locations in Rapperswil-Jona and Zurich.
Written Cognitive Psychotherapy (WCP) for Self-Thinkers
In the madness of March 2020, the Swiss Federal Council obligated all "health facilities during the lockdown generally to refrain from non-urgently indicated medical examinations, treatments, and therapies (interventions) in the current situation." In response, Dietmar Luchmann developed Written Cognitive Psychotherapy (WCP) and continued the Anxiety Clinic on Lake Zurich as online psychotherapy.
Since then, as a psychotherapist for Cognitive Psychotherapy, Dietmar Luchmann has been strengthening the mental sovereignty of intellectually demanding clients outside the system. Dietmar Luchmann accepts mandates from self-payers who take responsibility for themselves (or their families) and desire his psychological and psychotherapeutic expertise for self-help and self-therapy — regardless of problem, location, and time.
After a distinguished career in psychology and psychotherapy, Dietmar Luchmann has been retired since 2026. Dr. Dietmar Luchmann, LLC, with the Written Cognitive Psychotherapy (WCP) and its editorial mission with Psychotherapie.com are carried forward by a dedicated team of younger professionals who share his commitment to highly efficient psychotherapy.