About Me
As a Gestalt therapist with 23 years of professional experience, I support people in their personal and professional development. In my practice in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg, I offer a space for growth, psycho-spiritual development, and holistic change through Gestalt therapy and supervision for individuals, couples, teams, and groups.
Since my first encounter with Gestalt therapy as part of my creative therapy training in the Netherlands, I have been enthusiastic about Gestalt as a psychotherapeutic and holistic path to change and self-development and have continued to pursue and deepen this path to this day.
I'm grateful to have chosen this path, as it supports me every single day in connecting with my spontaneous vitality. Both as a therapist in my private practice, which I've had since 2009, as a Gestalt therapy instructor, and privately, as who I am.
Training and further education
1997-2001
Dipl. Creative Therapy (HS Zuyd Sittard NL)
2002
GIM Level 1, Frances Goldberg CA
2003
2006
Certificate in Gestalt Coaching at TIB Berlin
four-year training in music therapy with minor subjects, dance therapy, art therapy and psychodrama
Training in Guided Imagery Music (Music-guided Imagination Therapy) cond. by Frances Goldberg, CA
Vipassana meditation retreat in Wat Suan Mokkh Buddhist monastery, Thailand
Spirituelle & Körperorientierte Life Coaching Ausbildung unter Leitung eines tibetischen Meditationsmeisters zum Gestaltberater / Gestalt- Coaching am TIB mit Zertifizierung 2007
2001-2008
2009
Certificate in Integrative Gestalt Therapy at the TIB
Berlin
Many years of professional experience in psychotherapy and music therapy (2001-2008) in psychosomatics (academic teaching hospital of the Charité) as well as inpatient and day-care psychiatry
Specialist-led 4-year psychotherapeutic training as an "integrative Gestalt therapist" at the Therapeutic Institute Berlin (Bärbel and Nessim Behar-Kremer)
Within this training
Intensive seminars in death and dying, family process, man/woman process, body psychotherapy and trauma work according to Peter Levine (Somatic Experiencing), family constellations, gestalt therapeutic dream work, sexuality, bioenergetics, couple therapy according to Jürg Willi
2009
Hypnotherapist Certificate
at the IEK Berlin
Registration with the health authority as a naturopathic practitioner for psychotherapy in Berlin
2010
2011
2012
Brainspotting Certificate
Netherlands
2012 and 2013
2013
2015
2017
2023
Further training in hypnotherapy in Berlin (IEK, 2009)
Alternative practitioner (for psychotherapy) examination and certificate
Since 2009, teaching therapist and lecturer for music and Gestalt therapy at the Institute for Relaxation Techniques and Communication (IEK)
International training: SAT "The Enneagram as a key to one's own potential" (2010 cond.by Dr. Claudio Naranjo
Further training “Provocative Therapy” (2011 cond.by Frank Farelly)
Co-therapeutic direction with Bärbel Behar-Kremer for self-awareness seminars at the Yoga Academy at the Therapeutic Institute Berlin
Brainspotting (developed from EMDR and Somatic Experiencing) trauma therapeutic
Training, Amsterdam (2012 cond. by Dr.David Grand)
Accompaniment for 5Rhythms workshop according to Gabrielle Roth in Copenhagen and Berlin as
Music therapist and live musician (Alive Project)
Advanced training 2013 "Love and Forgiveness cond. by Leonard Shaw", Gestalt dream work and work with the inner child as well as a mini-course in wonder
Gestalt / Body Therapy Workshop November 2015 in Oslo "Developing Presence - The First Year and the rest of your life" cond. by Dr. Ruella Frank (NYC)
Gestalt therapy training with Dr. Ruella Frank January 2017 in New York, "'Developmental
Somatic Psychotherapy
Since 2023 further training in emotion-focused couples counseling