About Me

My approach

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Accompanying people on their journey is my great passion. For more than 10 years, I have been dedicating myself to the complex concerns of my clients in my own practice. 

Your personalities, needs, and concerns are as diverse as the process I will undertake with you is individual. Whether you want short-term coaching or more intensive therapeutic support, whether a systemic, humanistic, or behavioral therapeutic approach is appropriate for you and your issues. And depending on whether you want to focus our joint process on confidential, empathetic conversation, activating intervention methods, or a combination of these. Of course, the setting also plays an important role: working with adults in individual settings tends to be different from working with children and adolescents, parents, and couples.

I will develop a customized approach for you and coordinate it closely with you. Since orders can change during the process, we regularly check whether the agreed scope still applies or whether adjustments may be necessary.

  • My approach is based on a deep belief in the inner strength, resources, and potential for development that every person possesses. Difficult experiences can be overcome and goals can be achieved independently when individuals discover and utilize their own strengths.

    Following Carl Rogers' approach, I work empathically, congruently, and appreciatively. I create a space in which clients can explore their thoughts, feelings, and experiences without judgment.

    I work in an integrative, solution-focused, and resource-oriented manner, tailoring my approach to the needs and personality of my clients and the setting—adults, children and adolescents, families, or couples.

    In a trusting and protected atmosphere, I help people gain new perspectives, understand stressful patterns, and develop ways to improve their quality of life and self-determination.

  • After studying economics at the University of Hamburg, I began my professional career as a risk manager in the world of Frankfurt's major banks. I then spent six years working in management consulting, primarily responsible for designing and implementing major innovations in various companies in the financial sector, before taking up a long-term permanent position with a large German asset manager. Within this role, I quickly developed into a manager and worked for many years as a department head in IT.

    In the long run, managing employees proved to be the most interesting part of my work as a manager.  

    A new professional orientation began, which focused on supporting people and led me into the world of psychotherapy and coaching. I have now been practicing in my own practice for more than ten years. The decision to pursue a new career path was the right one for me, because working as a psychotherapist and coach is deeply fulfilling and answers my personal question of meaning.

    As I have two children myself, my daughter is now a student and my son is still of school age, I can well understand the concerns and difficulties parents face at different stages of their children's development and know from my own experience how family structures can change dynamically. I also know how challenging it can be to juggle the many demands of both areas of life at the same time.

    • Psychotherapist (HP – according to the German Heilpraktikergesetz, or Alternative Medicine Act)

    • Certified Business Coach (exam administered by the German Federal Association of Certified Trainers and Business Coaches - BZTB)

    • Supervisor (trained at the Munich Institute for Trauma Therapy under Professor Dr. Butollo)

    • Trained humanistic psychotherapist

    • Trained systemic child, adolescent, and family therapist

    • Trained behavioral therapist

    • Trained couples therapist and parenting coach

    • Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) Training

    • Graduate economist (University of Hamburg)

    • International Management Assistant (German, English, French, and Spanish)