Welcome

Professional activities:

Psychotherapy, counselling, and coaching

Settings:

Individuals, couples, families, and groups

Methods:

Systemic therapy

Issues:

  • Family and relationships
  • Gender identities and gender roles
  • Sexuality and reproduction
  • Work and career
  • Migration and cross-cultural issues
  • Insomnia and sleep
  • Stress, burnout, and bullying or mobbing
  • Crises
  • Domestic violence
  • Stress-related disorders
  • Somatoform disorders
  • Dieting issues and eating disorders
  • Depression
  • Anxiety and panic attacks
  • Phobias
  • Acute stress reaction
  • Trauma
  • Post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD)
  • Obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD)
  • Culture-bound syndromes (CBS)

Fees:

  • Individuals:
    50 min. session / € 120.-
  • Couples and families:
    100 min. session / € 240.-
  • Groups:
    Fees available on request

About me:

Born in Vienna in 1967, I was brought up in Austria and studied at Vienna University. After receiving a student grant from Ottawa University, I moved to Canada in 2001. Today my husband and I again live in my hometown. Some of my most important values currently are interpersonal relationships, cultural diversity and developing a sustainable way of life. Essential to my psychotherapeutic work are such qualities as trust, mindfulness, appreciation, empathy, authenticity as well as a humanistic approach.

Qualifications:

  • Psychotherapist / Systemic therapy
  • Master and doctoral degree in social-cultural and medical anthropology
    (major in anthropology, minor in medicine)
  • Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE)

Professional experience:

  • AmberMed
  • 1. Psychiatrische Abteilung mit Zentrum für spezielle psychiatrische Therapie
    und Psychosomatik, Psychotherapiestation / Otto-Wagner-Spital
    (Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at Otto-Wagner-Hospital)
  • Ambulante systemische Therapie (AST) / Lehranstalt für systemische Familientherapie
  • Beratungsstelle Courage Wien (Counselling Center)
  • Universitätsklinik für Innere Medizin III / AKH Wien
    (University Clinic for Internal Medicine at Vienna General Hospital)

Current research interest:

  • Psychohistory, consciousness and cognition, cross-cultural
    and comparative analyses of psychotherapeutic work
  • Medical anthropology, complemantary and alternative medicine (CAM)
  • Gender studies and feminist anthropology