Born in Berlin in 1978, I have moved the center of life and work to Hamburg since 2002.

I love to learn, grow and get to know new topics and people. My love for languages enables me to accompany clients in German, English and Swedish.

I started my professional career as a nurse in Berlin and London. In 2002 I decided to study health sciences, which led me to epidemiological research on social conditions and health.

With the birth of the first of my two sons in 2010, babies moved more and more into my life, first privately and then professionally. Through counseling and accompanying families with inconsolably crying babies, I found Emotional First Aid. To realize how babies/children (and adults) communicate through their bodies and what communication can take place without words was at the same time completely logical and completely new and groundbreaking to me. 

In life, sometimes you find your calling, sometimes it finds you. In my case I realized that not only the inconsolably crying babies were welcome with me, but also their mothers and fathers with overwhelming experiences from birth and pregnancy. I appreciate greatly being able to give these topics a respectful space in which things that had previously become stagnant are allowed to start moving again.

In order to be able to work more comprehensively, I completed the training as a non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy ("Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie") in 2019.

I found Somatic Experiencing® (a body-based trauma therapy according to Dr. Peter Levine), as I have noticed how much I enjoy working with trauma far beyond the field of pregnancy and birth.

I finished the 3-year-course in March 2023. My main focus apart from birth-related topics and attachment issues is working with accidents and medical interventions, working with stress, anxiety or offering support for people with physical illnesses that are either chronic or for which no (sufficient) medical cause can be found.

From my own history with rheumatic disease, I have had experiences of medical trauma and have been been given the gift to work through and integrate them. Even though these were not pleasant events, I was able to experience how helpful it is to regain the ability to act and to (re)discover and utilize the body's own resources. I am deeply grateful for the growth that has come into my life as a result. The confidence that this growth is possible, is something that I in turn bring into the work with the people I work with.