about me 🌸
I completed a Master of Psychology (Clinical) in Australia in 2016, and have worked in private practice in Berlin, Germany for the last 7 years. I am a founding member of the Counselling Kollektiv Berlin (CKB).
I hold a general registration with the Psychology Board of AHPRA. In more recent years, I have undertaken advanced training in Phenomenological Psychopathology and Supervision, at the International Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Psychopathology, Torino, Italy.
I have also been published in NOIA magazine.
Choosing a therapist 🕊
It’s very important that you feel a connection with your therapist - that you feel comfortable to speak about what matters most to you and express yourself freely. I do my very best to help create this space for my clients.
My approach is a flexible and unfolding product of the moment-to-moment interaction with my client – drawing from my training, experience and supervision in psychodynamic counselling, person-centred frameworks, and gestalt theory, including a phenomenological and body-oriented focus.
Which means…?
In practice, therapy with me might seem deceptively simple: I do not generally come in with an agenda or overly control the flow of the therapy. Indeed, I often try to be as empty and unknowing as possible. I am interested in what is important to you. I am interested in your experience in the present. I am interested in your feelings, and also my own resonances that come up in our work together.
My practice 💫
I have a radically relational approach to psychopathology; understanding personal suffering in its broader cultural, social, historical, and transgenerational context.
For me, the paradoxical theory of change is a key part of therapeutic work. That is, the more we try and change a feeling or situation, the more stuck we can become. By accepting and connecting with our pain, with the help of another in a safe space, we might begin to transform.
In work and life I am committed to being open and authentic – allowing myself to be taken and impacted by what emerges in a session and over the course of our process – so that we might welcome something new and unexpected together.
My space 🐚
I work in a small group practice for counselling and therapy - the Counselling Kollektiv Berlin - in the neighbourhood of Neukölln. It is a bright, quiet and cosy space located at Friedelstrasse 40, 12047 (U Schönleinstraße).
Sessions go for 50 minutes, meeting on a weekly basis. I also provide sessions online.
With an initial consultation we can get a feel for one another and decide if it is a good fit for both of us.
If you’re interested in working together, please reach out and say hi.
