I offer a professional and confidential framework for individuals, couples & companies with which I can support you in your process, advise you and assist you in your self-determination.
From my own experience I know how important creativity, flexibility and above all compassion are—both in dealing with one’s surroundings and with oneself. I have often experienced how being fixated on a certain ‘script’, i.e. a pre-defined story of one’s own life, can be a major obstacle, and I like to encourage people to face themselves, and to question and redefine any ‘scripts’ they may have.
I consider openness and a genuine interest in my clients to be the cornerstones of my practice, and this applies to different lifestyles, relationship models, beliefs and sexual orientations. I enjoy working with people from migrant and non-migrant backgrounds and appreciate the diversity of gender identities.
My practice is aimed at people with unique needs and desires for change: I can help to recognise and overcome old patterns, to identify new perspectives and to change the experience in the here and now. During our work together, reflection and nuanced perception are used to explore the conditions that trigger and perpetuate problems and limit everyday life. Starting from here, we develop concrete and appropriate options to pave the way for new steps.
In couples therapy, the relationship is in the foreground: recurring dynamics are deciphered in conversation—the aim is to achieve a shift that shows ways out of entrenched patterns. The direction this movement takes is worked out in our sessions together.
I work using a combination of methodologies. The foundation of my working approach is systemic therapy, which means that I am also happy to involve people close to the client in the process, if this is desired. In addition, I have trained in the following therapeutic, systemic and philosophically oriented methods and integrate them into my work:
• Emotionally focused therapy • Schema therapy • Acceptance and commitment therapy ACT • Solution-focused brief therapy • Emotionally focused couples and family therapy • MSC (mindful based self-compassion) • MBSR (mindful based stress reduction) • Open Dialogue
• Work as a crisis counsellor (NiG Pinel), 2020-2023 • Private practice since 2017, coaching and counselling in individual and group settings • Coaching in start-ups • Work as a Pilates trainer since 2017 • Teaching engagements in the field of performance and visual arts (Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, HGB Leipzig, etc.) • Work as a visual artist since 2013
2024 Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C) with Prof. Dr. Rhonda Goldman, Dr. phil. Catalina Woldarsky-Meneses & Dr. Serine Warwar, SIA Berlin
2023 Advanced training Trans* persons and their relatives in life, couple, education and family counseling, EZI Berlin (Evangelisches Zentralinstitut für Familienberatung )
2022 Advanced training Emotion-Focused Therapy for Couples (EFT-C) with Siang Be, SIA Berlin
2020 Systemic Therapist, Certificate of the Systemic Society
2017-2020 training in Mindfulness-based Systemic Therapy, Schema-Therapy and Emotion-Focused Therapy for individuals and couples, SIA - Systemisches Institut für Achtsamkeit Berlin
2017 Pilates Trainer, Certificate Pilates Bodymotion Cologne
2017 Master student, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig
2013 Diploma, University of Design Karlsruhe