About

I love people and their life stories. I love untangling their entangled histories. I love helping them find ground in circumstances where no ground can be expirienced. That's my competence.

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My competence is based on an integrative, and therefore unique philosophy of counseling that I have developed in my work as a counselor, researcher and university teacher. It has been nutured and strenghtened through decades of studying, learning and working with people in a variety of different fields but always in challenged contexts. 

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I am primarily certified in Systemic Counseling, Relational Life Therapy (RLT), and Advanced Integrative Therapy (AIT). In addition, I have completed further training in areas such as Parts Work, Somatic Therapy, Systemic Therapy as well as on selected topics like neurodiversity, attachment, grief, and trauma.

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​My competence is deeply rooted in the social sciences, cultural studies, and humanities, and is significantly shaped by a phenomenological-hermeneutic orientation. To this end, I have acquired extensive research experience. I hold several academic degrees in contemporary history, human geography, pedagogy, didactics, intercultural studies, and empirical social research.

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A key aspect of my academic work over the past few years has been the topic of trauma, in particular the relational dynamics of contextual stress such as social-cultural trauma, social-ecological trauma, historical trauma, transgenerational trauma and systemic oppression.​​​​​