Hi, it’s me
I work as an alternative practitioner for psychotherapy and psychosomatic coach in the field of relationships and intimacy and accompany people on their journey to themselves. My approach is based on Psychosexual Somatics Therapy, Cycle Awareness, Gestalt Therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Tao Tantra and Yoga Philosophy (Asanas, Meditation & Breathwork). I support people to strengthen the connection between mind and body, to recognize emotional needs and to communicate them. This helps to respect the desires of one's own body and, if necessary, to point out boundaries, thus strengthening self-confidence. I offer individual sessions, workshops, multi-week courses and (online) retreats.
“Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need one.”
Jane Howard
My Experience
EMDR Therapist - Christoph Mahr Institute, January 2023
Naturopath for psychotherapy, November 2022
Assistant to the Women's Inner Leadership Coaching Program (WILL), February 2022 - November 2023.
Project and Operations Manager at Madami by Menstrual Health Hub, May 2021 to April 2022.
Menstruality Leadership Program, Red School, April - November 2021
Healing Trauma Immersion with Mike Lousada,
July 2021
Psychosexual Somatics® Therapy (PST) Coaching Program with Mike Lousada & Louise Mazanti, PhD, September 2020 - April 2021.
Training as a breath therapist (100 hrs.), light breathing,
February - October 2020
Usui Reiki Degree IV with Klaus Gourish, Arati Healing Center
May 2019
Meditation Teacher Training (60 hrs.),
March - April 2019
Chi Nei Tsang (Organ Massage) Course, March 2019
Yoga Teacher Training (200 hrs.), February - March 2019
Advanced Freediver, August 2018
Fitness Leader & Personal Trainer Course, March 2009
Aqua Aerobics Trainer Course, March 2009
PADI Open Water Diver, August 2004
Economic Advisor in the European Parliament, 2016 - 2018
Trainee at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, 2015
College of Europe, Postgraduate Master of Arts in European Economic Integration and Business, 2014 - 2015.
KU Leuven, Master of Science in Business Economics, 2013 - 2014
Intern at the German Embassy San José, 2012
Intern at the Federal Foreign Office Berlin, 2011 - 2012
Student assistant at the Institute for Economic History of the HU Berlin, 2011 - 2012
HU Berlin, Bachelor of Science in Economics, 2009 - 2013
My Story
Until December 2018, I worked as an economic advisor to a Member of the European Parliament in Brussels. The job was highly interesting, but also exhausting and draining. My regular yoga and meditation practice helped me during this time to not completely lose my balance. But the longer I sat in that office, the more I drifted away from my actual dreams. I had felt for some time that I wanted to advocate for women and work more with women, I just didn't know exactly where or how. I decided to leave, even if it meant giving up a secure, well-paying job. I had no plan, but I wasn't afraid either.
I wanted to travel aimlessly through Asia for 1-2 months. I ended up studying and working on Koh Phangan in Thailand for almost 7 months. In between I taught Yoga, Breathwork & Meditation in a project to support local women in Cambodia. This work and the direct exchange with people filled me with so much joy, energy and motivation. It felt right, so I stayed longer and longer. Meanwhile, my personal life was upside down; my boyfriend at the time and I had broken up. I suppressed the sadness and anger I felt.
January 2018, when I was still working in the European Parliament
In Thailand I had the great fortune to be part of a community of women who met several times a week in the middle of the jungle in a tree house to talk, eat, meditate, breathe and practice embodiment work. In this environment I was finally able to allow my sadness and anger to come back to me. I could give myself the kind of closeness and touch that I was missing.
In addition, by now I had assembled a "toolbox" for my work with and for women: Yoga, meditation, breath therapy and above all: celebrating femininity. In August 2019, I co-led my first weekend retreat for women with a partner. Two more followed before Covid forced us to take a break. Since Covid, I've been teaching mostly online and deepened my knowledge through a Coaching training in Psychosexual Somatics Therapy.
What I can say for sure about my current job is that it fulfills me and gives me back energy. I share the practices and meditations that help me.
