Portrait
Welcome to Klinik Meissenberg – Switzerland’s only specialised psychiatric-psychotherapeutic clinic exclusively for women.
For over 90 years, Klinik Meissenberg AG has been Switzerland’s only recognised specialised psychiatric and psychotherapeutic clinic for women. Personalised treatment and our high quality standards are at the heart of our treatment concepts. Thanks to the close cooperation of our interdisciplinary team, we guarantee a safe and respectful treatment environment, where our patients benefit from an intensive, individually tailored therapy programme. Your stay at the clinic is enhanced by its peaceful and idyllic location with stunning views of Lake Zug and the extensive, well-maintained park, offering numerous opportunities for walks.
Klinik Meissenberg AG is a recognised psychiatric and psychotherapeutic specialist and acute clinic for women with 74 beds spread across 5 departments. In addition to an acute and private department for mixed psychiatric illnesses, we operate departments for depression and burnout, somatic stress and eating disorders as well as anxiety and emotion regulation.
Outpatient department
In our outpatient department, we conduct timely preliminary consultations for planned inpatient therapy programmes. Our patients have the opportunity here to obtain detailed information about our therapy programmes. For specific problems, there is also the option of outpatient follow-up treatment after the inpatient stay, which is usually for a limited period.
Villa Paracelsus private department
For patients with mental illnesses who have supplementary insurance, we offer needs-based therapy with a holistic, interdisciplinary and integrative treatment approach in our private department at Villa Paracelsus. This also includes elements such as schema therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy. The villa has its own garden and a spacious terrace with an entrancing view of Lake Zug. You will enjoy an exclusive, sophisticated ambience here, with single and twin rooms available and an expanded range of hotel-like services for additional well-being.
Depression and Burnout
We offer support to women who have experienced a crisis of meaning and orientation or a state of illness as a result of critical life events, difficult life transitions or multiple stresses. In the treatment of affective disorders and stress-related illnesses, we take a relationship-focused approach to establish a connection with our patients on various levels. Our aim is to promote mindfulness and self-care, restore health and foster an outlook oriented towards the search for meaning. We work in an integrative and holistic manner and take psychotherapeutic elements, such as Cognitive Behavioural Analysis System of Psychotherapy (CBASP) into account, combining this with interventions based on mindfulness.
Somatic stress and eating disorders
Our experienced specialist department for somatic stress disorders offers our patients the opportunity to develop an understanding of the interaction of psychological and physical reactions in a safe environment specifically designed for women, in addition to the immediate improvement of symptoms.
The existing range of services has been supplemented by specific treatments for the three main forms of eating disorders, i.e. anorexia, bulimia and uncontrolled binge eating, as well as other eating disorders. As part of tailored psychotherapy, we work with our patients in three phases on various psychological and physical issues, accompanied by cautious medicinal treatment and dietary advice. We teach strategies that promote and sustainably support the recovery process.
Own resources and competences are strengthened so that new steps towards healing change are possible. This also includes planning the time after the hospitalisation.
Borderline & Other Personality Disorders
In the Anxiety and Emotion Regulation department, we offer help for young women with emotion regulation disorders such as borderline and other personality disorders, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorders and crises of meaning and life. Our main aim is to improve emotional regulation and help patients develop coping strategies for stress based on a multi-professional treatment strategy. We work with patients to develop an understanding of their individual issues, encourage them to connect with their own feelings and support them in dealing with them in a functional way.
Crisis Management
The Crisis Management department offers immediate assistance and intensive support to women who are in acute crisis or whose mental health is deteriorating. The duration of treatment varies from short-term crisis interventions to longer integrated psychiatric therapies in a sheltered or inpatient environment. The focus here is on psychophysical stabilisation and protection from self-harm or harm to others. After the acute phase, patients have the option of continuing their treatment in one of our specialised departments.
Klinik Meissenberg: past and present
The history of Klinik Meissenberg began in 1926 under the leadership of the Sisters of Menzing as a private sanatorium for women in a prime location overlooking Lake Zug. In its early years, Klinik Meissenberg was already known as the psychiatric clinic for women in Switzerland. The focus of treatment today is still on psychotherapy.
In 1999, the Menzing Sisters sold Klinik Meissenberg to Bad Schinznach AG. Today, Klinik Meissenberg AG is a wholly owned subsidiary of Bad Schinznach AG.
Beatrice Bill-Wyss, Delegate of the Board of Directors/CEO, and Rolf Tanner, CFO, manage Klinik Meissenberg AG together with Dr. med. Kamila Dudová-Nakazi as Medical Director/Chief Physician.