Who Am I?

The question “Who am I?” has accompanied me since my youth and reflects my deep need to understand myself and the world. I first stumbled upon it through my sense of being different and my longing for belonging.

During my doctoral studies in mathematics, I began to explore my inner experience more deeply. I drew closer to my wounds, learned about paths of healing, and found access to spaces in which growth becomes possible. Since 2019 I have been accompanying people in their processes. I work as a Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie (licence under the German Heilpraktikergesetz) and, alongside psychotherapeutic treatment, offer individual work and psychedelic integration.

What interests me is how experience finds meaning: in the body, in contact, in thinking, and in the middle of life. I know transitions in which familiar patterns no longer hold and no clear way out is visible. It is precisely there that trust has grown for me: not as certainty, but as a willingness to remain turned toward life. Some ruptures do not have to be overcome in order to live. Sometimes new paths appear at their edges.

My Professional Journey

I first studied mathematics in Munich and Passau and worked as a researcher at the university. Alongside, I was active with the Scouts and explored the mystical traditions of world religions, with first experiences in shamanic rituals and systemic constellations.

One day I understood the fragmentation of my life — colorful, but wanting to be brought into something coherent — and realized that my existence required an answer of my own. I did not find that answer in a single method, but step by step: in personal accompaniment, in the body, in relationships, in nature, in thinking, and in honestly looking at my own story. Out of that search, I began to follow my curiosity about being human professionally.

My Approach Today

On this path I gathered tools that helped me both understand my own world and accompany others on theirs. A psychology degree in Vienna, a four-year Gestalt therapy training in Nuremberg, and longer periods with shamanism as it is lived in Brazil and Peru. I value psychology because it works systematically with human experience and behaviour; Gestalt therapy because it stays attentive to the concrete person; and shamanism because it speaks about being human differently than science does.

These experiences shape my approach today. In the work, I offer a space where what is showing up gets taken seriously, without pushing, and without promising that a particular answer will be there at the end.

What shapes my work: no pressure to optimise, room for ambivalence, careful looking together. Psychological and bodily perspectives belong to it, as does clarity without dramatisation. Change is allowed to happen at its own pace.

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Sonnenaufgang am Berg Gennargentu auf Sardinien
Berg mit Bäumen und Schnee
Blick auf das Meer und einem Berg

Training & Paths of Experience

Academic training, therapeutic education, and personal experiential paths

My path brings together academic training, therapeutic education, and personal experiential work. I do not see these fields as one single method. Depending on the concern, they can contribute different things: scientific clarity, dialogical presence, body awareness, connection with nature, and ritual experience.

since 2025

MSc Psychotherapy - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Evidence-based methods of cognitive behavioral therapy for work with psychological and psychosomatic disorders as well as psychosocial stress.

University for Continuing Education Krems

2019-2024

Psychology BSc & MSc

Academic studies with a focus on clinical and health psychology.

University of Vienna

2018-2022

Gestalt Therapy - dialogical & body-oriented

Four-year humanistic psychotherapy training with a focus on presence, dialogical encounter, and sensing in the body.

Symbolon Institute Nuremberg

2023-2024

Bodynamic Body Psychotherapy

Body-oriented training focused on development, resources, boundaries, and embodiment.

Bodynamic Germany, Munich

since 2013

Nature-connected and ritual self-exploration

Long-term self-exploration, initiations, and ritual training in nature-connected practice. Focus on nature connection and altered states of consciousness, more than 1000 hours.

including Terra Mirim, Brazil

2007-2017

Mathematics & Science

Studies, PhD, and research work in mathematics. This time still shapes my thinking, precision, and interest in complex questions.

Technical University of Munich and University of Passau

Feb-Jun 2026
Psychiatry Internship
Vienna General Hospital
since 2025
MSc Psychotherapy - Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
University for Continuing Education Krems
2024
Psychedelic Integration Training
ICEERS, Barcelona (online)
Mar-Apr 2024
Psychiatry Internship
University Hospital Tulln
2023-2024
Bodynamic Body Psychotherapy
Munich
2022-2025
Psychotherapeutic Foundation Program
University of Vienna
2019-2024
Psychology BSc & MSc
University of Vienna
2018-2022
Gestalt Therapy - dialogical & body-oriented
Symbolon Institute Nuremberg
2018-2019
Integral Nature Coaching
Innernature
since 2013
Nature-connected and ritual self-exploration
including Terra Mirim, Brazil
2012-2017
Research Associate
University of Passau
2012-2015
Dr. rer. nat. - Mathematics
University of Passau
2007-2012
Mathematics BSc & MSc
Technical University of Munich

Accompaniment when familiar answers are no longer enough…

Group work in Vienna I offer rituals, workshops and retreats under Sinnmosaik.