I am a Psychotherapist (HPG) and provide psychotherapy in English and German. I have been active in the Fields of Therapy and Social Sciences since 1996. Many bilingual English/German speaking families choose to use both languages in the sessions. Especially children find it helpful to express themselves emotionally in their more dominant language.

I am a native German and received my training and licenses in Germany and the US. From 1998- 2013 I lived with my husband and two children (now 25y/18y) in Palo Alto, California. During the time in the states I immersed myself culturally through both direct therapy work and engaging in many types of socially oriented volunteer work. Having raised my children as an expatriate I understand the special challenges that present itself from living in a new culture, far away from family and friends.

I have acquired a broad range of practice as a therapist, counselor, and nurse. I also completed a substantial number of professional trainings and volunteer work.

In my capacity as therapist I worked with families, couples, individuals, teens and children in a wide range of settings and cultural contexts. With my clients I addressed a wide-range of diagnostic presentations including relationship issues, attachment issues, substance abuse, eating disorders and personality disorders. I worked in a multicultural elementary and middle school setting, where I provided individuals and group counseling and supported parents.

In addition, I helped my clients in a variety of issue relevant settings:

Addressing trauma related issues, working with women and children as victims and survivors at a center for Domestic Violence.
Volunteered at the ‘Suicide and Crises’ Services, providing phone counseling and individual grief counseling to client of the Survivor of Suicide Program.
Spending the summer of 2010 in a therapeutic wilderness for teenagers and young adults in Utah, where I assisted the primary field therapist.
During my years as social worker I worked at a residential home for teenagers, child and Youth welfare Office, and a women shelter.
I had the opportunity to work at a United Nation endorsed school project ‘School for Life’ in Thailand, where I worked as a nurse and taught English.

Qualifications

2014 – Heilpraktiker for Psychotherapy, Berlin Germany
2013 – Postgraduate Externship at Mental Research Institute, Palo Alto, CA
2011 — MA in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University, CA
2000 – MA in Social Work from University of applied Sciences Darmstadt
1985 – State registered Nurse, Germany

Memberships

CAMFT – California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists
American Society of Group Psychotherapy and Psychodrama, Princeton, NJ
Association for Counselors and Therapists in Berlin (ACT Berlin)

Recent publications

“Wilderness- an Intervention for Teenagers” 2006 [ISBN 0-9785520-0-8]
“Das Pflegekinderwesen in den USA” (The foster care system in the USA)
Kindeswohl 03,2000 ISBB: 0936-4463