Qualifications
Systemic Therapy (SG)
Alternative practitioner licensed to practice psychotherapy
M.A. (Ethnology and Spanish Philology)
Professional Development
Various Trauma Therapy Training Courses (Trauma-sensitive couples therapy; Imaginative trauma therapy; Body-oriented trauma therapy; Trauma therapy with refugees;…)
Couples therapy training courses focusing on emotion-focused work with Dr. Ghazaleh Bailey
UNICEF Training of Trainers: National initiative to protect persons living in refugee centers
Train the Trainer in anti-discrimination work with ManuEla Ritz
Professional Development
Various Trauma Therapy Training Courses (Trauma-sensitive couples therapy; Imaginative trauma therapy; Body-oriented trauma therapy; Trauma therapy with refugees;…)
Couples therapy training courses focusing on emotion-focused work with Dr. Ghazaleh Bailey
UNICEF Training of Trainers: National initiative to protect persons living in refugee centers
Train the Trainer in anti-discrimination work with ManuEla Ritz
work experience
I have been working as a consultant in anti-violence work since 2018. Since 2020, I have been working as a systemic therapist at XENION e.V., a psychosocial center for politically persecuted people and victims of torture in Berlin. I work with individuals and couples there. Most of my clients have experienced violence as women or because of their trans* identity or sexual orientation.
My stance
I am queer. I am white, and I spend a lot of time reflecting on racism and my complicity in it as a white person. Because of the Jewish and politically persecuted aspects of my family history, the fight against antisemitism and solidarity with refugees are particularly important to me.
As a mother, I’m facing new questions and gaining new insights in many ways, that are also relevant for my work.
I have many years of experience in therapy, individual therapy as well as, couples-therapy, and group-therapy.
I realize how important it is to have therapeutic spaces where queer and other marginalized realities are addressed with sensitivity and based on real-world experience—rather than on prejudice. I also realize how important it is to have therapeutic spaces where mental distress and trauma are not simply viewed as individual problems, but are placed within their social context.
Discrimination sensitivity is a central component of my work—as is a trauma-informed approach. I primarily support people who are living with stressful or traumatic experiences and their effects. In doing so, I draw on a variety of different therapeutic approaches that I have acquired through training, further education, supervision and intervision, as well as other forms of collegial exchange and reading, and which I continue to develop on an ongoing basis.
What is important to me is:
- Taking experiences of exclusion, shame, or invisibility seriously
- Not pathologizing people
- but rather to understand people, how they became who they are and what they need to feel more harmonious in their lives (again).
I am moved by how much strength emerges when people feel truly seen:
—without judgment, without labels.
My practice should be as safe a place as possible—respectful, transparent, and welcoming.