Why I’m here

For more than 17 years I have been working internationally as a somatic, body-based therapist with a complex holistic approach. I feel blessed to be able to accompany people on their way to enhance wellbeing, connection and personal freedom. Courageous people who wish to shake off old patterns of beliefs and behaviour, and unfold to live their life the sustainable way they choose.

Encouraging and empowering others to thrive means to remind them how to feel and communicate their needs and wishes, navigate through crisis and trauma towards taking responsibility, and nourishing lasting relationships. This deeply rooted desire for communication, connection, and personal freedom to live up to one’s values and dreams has always driven me. And the beauty of my work is to discover new variants and varieties through my client’s eyes every day.

Growing up in a small village in Northern Germany in the 1980s, I witnessed people around me being unhappy, lonely and frustrated, and suffering silently. It broke my heart watching family and friends I loved being so stuck, sad and often hopeless. While the world seemed so exciting, rich, and diverse to me - once you looked outside the box. Well, I had this little freedom fighter in me who believed change must be possible. Is possible. This burning desire fuelled my search for freedom. Move to where I would feel was the right place for me, and to find ways to help others too. I had no idea how though. But I was curious and hungry to learn.

Many years, I tried to work out why people wouldn’t do the obvious: dare to change. My mind was on full spin when I went to University to study Sociology and Psychology, exploring the dynamics of the individuals interacting in society and vice versa. I lived in Leipzig before I moved to Berlin, where I would stay for almost 20 years. Packed with my Master's Degree, I was still searching for a way to make live better. And it daunted in me: Talking and thinking alone doesn’t provide a way out. I looked for alternative ways, how to encourage and empower people. I took a detour in journalism, and experimented with telling people’s stories, change the narrative, the perspective. So much experience and wisdom waiting to be shared and learned from. Thankfully, my little freedom fighter was accompanied by a quieter voice, inviting me to listen carefully not only to the stories being told but also to the heart, to acknowledge mine and everyone’s unique potential, and to trust the process.

And then one day, I was in the right place at the right time. Was it coincidence, fate, meant to be or being lucky? There was this party and I met someone who introduced me to somatic bodywork. Soon after, I met their teacher. And this one hour changed my life. I ‘knew’ that’s it. For the first time, I felt seen, understood, heard and held. That’s what I was looking for. Connection, communication, compassion, change. A very direct and immediate, caring, attentive and empowering way to make change happen, to integrate the past and focus on the future.

After 4-years of very structured and guided learning, I achieved the Certified Grinberg Method Practitioner Diploma (2012). Over time, as with all good approaches and techniques, you also come across their limitations. Plus my natural desire to learn, expand and enrich always challenges me to look further. So I kept and keep learning about various ways of personal growth and healing. I wouldn’t want to limit myself or my clients’ journey. I enhanced my work as a Pantarei Approach Practitioner (2017), integrated several coaching and non-violent communication strategies, and enriched my work with the wisdom of yoga and learnings from my TCM acupuncturist. I enhanced my understanding of working with trauma by studying the online course “Trauma First Aid” with Dr. Peter Levine (2020). And recently, I completed a Neuroscience Coaching Course (2025) which underpins my rich experience with the latest scientific findings. But most of all, I learn from my clients. They are my most impressive and amazing teachers. All of this merges into my work today.

Today, I live with my teenage son, our extended family, and our feisty 4-legged-soul ‘Elvis the Dog’ in Oxfordshire, grateful to be deeply rooted in Berlin, London and Portugal, and to be able to share my experience and knowledge with beautiful people all across Europe. It’s humbling to work with curious, creative, and courageous people and learn about their lives, experiences and dreams. My dream became true: Today I have a profession where I can help to make this world a little bit of a better place.