A warm welcome.
My name is Lena Träger. I studied biochemistry and earned my PhD at ETH Zurich. In research I realised how much I love accompanying people, which is why I completed training as a systemic coach. In "All Parts Welcome" I bring both together: the curious, clear eye of a scientist and a warm space where every part of you is welcome.
What drives me
As a life scientist, I learned to look closely, objectively and openly, and to orient myself by what can be backed up. Especially in unsettled times, this way of seeing has often given me something to hold on to. Not because science has all the answers, but because it helps us understand the world better and tell knowledge from guesswork. To this day I'm in awe of nature in all its diversity and peculiarities. For me that includes human nature too, with everything we carry inside us and that sometimes remains a mystery even to ourselves.
In a fast and complex world, it isn't always easy to stay grounded in yourself, notice your own needs and make good decisions from a place of inner calm. While school, training and work teach us a lot about how the world around us works, we learn surprisingly little about how we ourselves work. How do our thoughts and feelings arise? What role does the unconscious play? Which thinking patterns shape us, how does our ego work, and how does our inner attitude influence what we do? Yet there are contemplative traditions that have shown ways for centuries to mindfully observe and better understand our inner world.
Perhaps it's precisely this lack of understanding of ourselves that sometimes makes it so hard to be at peace with ourselves. I think many of us carry the feeling of not quite being enough. We hold on to old experiences, worry about the future and try to find our way through life. Beliefs like “I'm wrong”, “I'm helpless” or “I'm worthless” can quietly shape our thinking and actions. Over time we may even take them to be part of our identity, although they often grew out of experiences that shaped us but don't have to define us.
Maybe you sometimes feel lost, carry something you don't have words for yet, or feel you don't quite belong. Maybe you're looking for direction, facing a decision, or simply curious about your inner world. Whatever brings you here, you're welcome. With everything that makes you who you are, including the parts that are loud, tired or hurt. You don't have to hide them or change them first in order to meet them.
Systemic counselling offers a space to explore this inner world with curiosity and care. Which inner parts speak up in certain situations? What are they trying to protect, and what do they need? Which old beliefs are at work in the background, and which new perspectives might open up? It's not about seeing anything in you as wrong or optimising yourself, but about understanding yourself better and finding a kinder way of relating to yourself. Step by step, you become a good companion to yourself. For more calm, compassion and warmth in this world.
More about me
Painting
I paint to externalize things inside me that I don't understand. Do I understand them better afterwards? Not necessarily. But giving them a face calms me. I painted the pictures in the parts gallery myself.
Shorinji Kempo
A Japanese martial art. I love the friendly community and the way we refine an art together that's never quite finished.
Mountains & sauna
I like anything that's a bit physically challenging and feels really good afterwards.
Pokémon cards
I collect Pokémon cards, mostly Ditto, a creature that can transform into others. Imagine if your own identity weren't so fixed after all, and you could choose it?
My background
- 2025Training as a systemic & values-based coach (ISO / ICI)Coach Akademie Schweiz
- 2022–2026PhD in Synthetic BiologyETH Zurich
- 2017–2021Master's in BiochemistryTU Munich
- 2014–2017Bachelor's in BiochemistryTU Munich
Regular continuing education and self-exploration are a given for me.