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About
Me & My Practice
About Me
I have a lifelong fascination with how experience is expressed through the body. This interest has evolved from working with horses as a teen and artistic explorations through different kinds of storytelling in my twenties into movement practice, somatic trauma work and eventually somatic psychotherapy.
I have personally experienced the sometimes subtle yet pervasive effects of power dynamics, coercion and boundary violations in my own life, therefore this is an area of work particularly close to my heart. Alongside my clinical practice, I find meaning in conducting research into power dynamics, coercion and physical boundary violations, particularly relating to family systems and institutional settings such as schools or health care.
Having a background of working in the arts, I also love bringing my experience and skill as a therapist and researcher back to this profession by supporting artists with my specifically tailored approach for this demographic which continues to evolve.
What I strive for in my own life is the expertise, confidence, self-acceptance and freedom to live my life fully without being held back by self-sabotage, fear, insecurity or physical limitations.
Other Things You May Want To Know About Me
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In my youth I was a competative equestrian. This was my first learning about deep physical awareness and somatic communication.
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I'm dyslexic, which resulted in many challenges in the normative school system.
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I moved from Germany to the UK at 22, and continue to live between both countries.
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As a therapeutic pilates teacher and massage therapist I worked with clients who suffered with chronic illness, pain and injury recovery in a private physiotherapy practice for several years.
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I taught anatomy and supported training programmes with Polestar Pilates UK and other pilates teacher training schools, and later developed CPD courses on trauma-awareness for movement teachers.
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While fitness and aerial arts were a huge passion of mine, an injury a few years ago changed my relationship with my body and my physical capacities.
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I am now part of the assistant team for Somatic Experiencing training in the UK and Europe.
About My Practice
Somatic Experiencing (SE) forms the central influence in my work and focuses on how autonomic nervous system responses shape our experience of safety, stress and overwhelm, and how these patterns can shift over time through carefully supported therapeutic processes.
Alongside SE, my work is informed by developmental somatic psychology, NeuroAffective Touch, Parts Work, and movement-based modalities including Feldenkrais and the Alexander Technique.
I see psychotherapy as a process that includes both embodied experience and meaning-making. Many clients come to me with a cognitive understanding of their difficulties, but find that their embodied responses remain unchanged. My work focuses on this gap between insight and embodied experience and supports change at the deeper level of the nervous system.
My background in therapeutic movement education and manual therapy gives me a detailed understanding of functional anatomy and movement organisation. This can be very useful in my work with people who have experienced physical boundary breaches, including sexual and medical trauma, injury, and those with complex conditions like Endometriosis and Ehlers-Danlos-Syndrome.
I primarily offer therapy online via Zoom. Drawing on my training in touch-based trauma work, I am also able—where clinically appropriate and always within clear consent-based agreements—to incorporate contact-based interventions. In-person sessions in Southend-on-Sea or London may be arranged on a case-by-case basis when this form of work is indicated and agreed within the therapeutic process.
