Undergraduate and postgraduate education and work experience

• PhD on the topic of «Resource-oriented psychotherapy» at the University of Bern, Institute for Clinical Psychology with Prof. Dr. Klaus Grawe
• Federally-recognised psychotherapist
• BA Social Pedagogy FH
• Drama school Zürich
• Psychotherapy with cognitive-behavioural and systemic focus, University Bern
• Recognised hypnotherapist at the German Society of Hypnotherapy
• Professor for Social Work at the Institute for Social Work and Health at the FHNW School of Social Work

Career milestones

• 2002 – Lecturer at the FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
• 1998 – 2002: University Clinic Basel Psychiatry with Prof. Dr. Riecher Rössler
• 1989 – 1992: Head of Sociocultural Centre Lübeck
• 1983 – 1986: Child Care Service Düsseldorf
  

Main focus

• Expressive Art and social transformation in social work
• Head of the MAS programme Psychosocial Counselling
• Resource-oriented methods in counselling and therapy
• Experience-oriented methods in psychosocial practice
• Methods and concepts of clinical social work

Publications and projects