Where I come from and what is important for me…
The work as a holistic counseller is my companion since 2009 and I have been gifted with important discoveries and fulfillment. This has shaped my life, my inspiration to find my own and unique “life-melody”.
I came from afar to settle in Australia and now call this beautiful land home with my partner and our two boys. We created a new part of the family tree with my German roots on Australian soil.
We have shared our lives for 12 years together and our relationship has been a strong teacher in love and differences, experiencing and understanding of our differences in daily life and how we relate with each other. This is my constant teacher and strength which flows into my work.
I also receive immense learning and support from the people on the way, the friends, companions, colleagues and students from all walks of live. They deserve my deep gratitude and thanks, friends for the warmth, honesty and humour, the colleagues for their generosity and support, the learners and the clients for their trust and for their courage.
May our paths continue to provide wonderful encounters.
“There is a wisdom of the head and a wisdom of the heart”
Charles Dickens
Professional Experience
My therapeutic approach is grounded in a mindful, holistic and relational counselling process focusing on developing awareness and clarity to lead a fulfilling life.
For over seven years I have worked in community and private organisations in a variety of settings with adults, adolescents, children and families. I have experience working with a vast array of issues covering anxiety, relationships, family separation, parenting and attachment, childhood issues, working with teens, alcohol and drug addictions, transgenerational trauma, grief and loss, trauma, sexual abuse and complex mental health.
I also have over 15 years experience in Family & Systemic Constellation both overseas and in Australia, and co-facilitate professional group training in this modality.
What is special about my approach?
I believe that each person is the true expert of their own life. My therapeutic approach engages the head, heart and body actively in the process and incorporates many years of training and experience in diverse fields from psychotherapy, somatic release, yoga and systemic process to spiritual training. At heart I am a systems oriented realist, never seeing any one thing in isolation from its environment.
I will work with your thinking, your feeling and your body’s wisdom to empower you in your life and to move forward. Together we will find resources for you – something you often have within you but are unable to access since you are so deeply connected to the problem or never learned to use or ask for support. In particular, my expertise is to assist you in shedding light on the recurring patterns that limit you, including those taken on from your family system and previous generations.
I am registered with the Australian Counselling Association Board and recognised by the Doctors Healthcare Fund for counselling and psychotherapy rebates.
Education & Training
2016 Postgraduate Degree in Counselling, University of New England
2013 Graduate Certificate in Gestalt Therapy, Brisbane
2012 Domestic Violence Program Lifeline, Maroochydore
2012 Training in Systemic Constellation Therapy, Germany
2010- now Co-Facilitator in Family Constellation Training for Professionals, Maleny
2009-2011 Diploma & Certificate Holistic Counselling, Brisbane
2008 Training in Pranic Healing, Sunshine Coast
2002 Yoga Instructor Vivikananda Institute Bangalor, India
2001 IHK Teacher Training for Autogenes Training (deep muscle relaxing), Munich Germany