In brief
- 80,000+ followers, 89.3% in DACH, age mass at 25–44, roughly three quarters women.
- Engagement concentrates on relationship mechanics; five selected posts alone hold 670 comments and 12,400 likes (Instagram totals).
- The engaged audience sorts into five clinically recognizable profiles. The preparation-stage over-givers and contemplation-stage decoders carry most of the substantive discussion.
- Recurring self-described markers: boundary collapse, on/off cycles, somatic stress language, prior spending on therapy and seminars.
1. The account
Termeh Talebi, psychological counselor and relationship expert, publishes in German as @Termeh_psychologie (80,000+ followers). Her focus: relationships, self-worth, attachment patterns, and increasingly nervous-system regulation. Press: invited speaker on ZDF (Germany's second national broadcaster, on online dating) and contributor in Brigitte (leading women's magazine, on AI and intimacy). One prior brand collaboration, Sleep and Glow, on sleep and emotional regulation.
2. Demographics
89.3% of followers live in DACH, and the 25–44 range holds 59.7% of the audience, roughly three quarters of it women. Each band below shows its women and men shares of all followers; the country chart follows on the same scale.
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| Component | Value |
|---|---|
| 18–24 — Women | 10.2% |
| 18–24 — Men | 4.6% |
| 25–34 — Women | 24.8% |
| 25–34 — Men | 7.8% |
| 35–44 — Women | 21.4% |
| 35–44 — Men | 5.7% |
| 45–54 — Women | 11% |
| 45–54 — Men | 3.5% |
| 55+ — Women | 5.5% |
| 55+ — Men | 3.1% |
Source: Instagram Insights (Zielgruppe, 2026-07-23); band totals as published, women/men split measured from the Insights bar proportions
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| Label | Value |
|---|---|
| Germany | 63.8% |
| Austria | 14.6% |
| Switzerland | 10.9% |
| Netherlands | 3.8% |
| Denmark | 2.4% |
Source: Instagram Insights (Zielgruppe), captured 2026-07-23
Follower activity peaks on Sundays between 15 and 21 Uhr.
3. Inside the comment sections
Her five most engaging posts carry this section: together they hold 670 comments and 12,451 likes (Instagram totals). Each is linked as a sample; the analysis below draws on the 203 comments we read from these five threads plus her smaller ones.
- Likes as a respect question · 256 comments · 3,701 likes. Top comment (64 likes): "Es geht nicht um Eifersucht. Es geht um Respekt."
- The masking-phase rule · 127 comments · 2,806 likes. The audience tests the "7 dates" rule on their own lives, half serious, half joking.
- Loving two people at once · 159 comments · 2,515 likes. A source-hungry audience repeatedly asks for the studies behind the "4-5%" claim.
- The 3-month crash · 81 comments · 2,588 likes. Timeline mapping and survivor reports ("Ich hab's überlebt. War sehr hart, aber heilend für beide").
- Age-gap dating · 47 comments · 841 likes. Personal testimony ("17 Jahre Unterschied. Beziehung fühlt sich immer noch gut an") and statistics pushback.
Reading the numbers, with estimates. The top post moves interactions equal to roughly 4.9% of the whole followership, and the five posts average about 3.3%; typical accounts this size run 1-2% (estimate, industry benchmarks). Reels convert about 3-5% of viewers into likes, so each of these posts likely reached well past 50,000 plays, more than the account has followers (estimate). The threads also stay alive: the respect thread kept collecting comments from October into January. By register, roughly half the comments are affirmation, a quarter personal testimony, and the rest questions and pushback (modeled).
4. The audience behind the numbers
Five reader types run through her comment sections (shares modeled). Low-disclosure affirmers, roughly four in ten, follow along quietly: they applaud, save, and rarely write more than an emoji, and they are the account's reach and social proof. Anxious-preoccupied decoders, about one in five, are actively dating and read every rule as an instrument; they ask the diagnostic questions, want checklists over theory, and sit in the younger half of the 25-44 core. Self-silencing over-givers, just under one in five, are in or freshly out of relationships that cost them their own boundaries; they are the segment most explicit about wanting to change, and they skew older. Ruminative cyclers, about one in ten, live in long on/off dynamics and come for steadiness as much as advice. And psychologically-minded integrators, one in ten, arrive therapy-experienced, ask for sources, and set the intellectual tone of any thread they join.
What they carry. The recurring pattern is chronic rather than acute: relational strain running over years, over-adjustment to the point of self-loss, and stress that registers in the body as dizziness, headaches, and nausea. Body-mind language is normal in this community, nervous-system vocabulary included, and tracing today's patterns back to childhood needs no prompting.
What they invest. This audience already pays for its own development. Therapy, seminars, courses, and books belong to the standard vocabulary of the threads, and a meaningful share of the substantive commenters, plausibly around a third (estimate), reports completed or ongoing professional help.
What they respond to. Concrete rules and timelines start conversations; boundary and respect topics carry the biggest threads; scientific framing draws the most demanding readers. Sunday evening is the audience's window, and threads keep collecting replies for months after publication.
The edges. A small male minority asks the mirror-image questions about women. Pushback exists but stays civil and substantive; sarcasm concentrates on the lighter topics and rarely reaches the healing-adjacent threads.