Professional Career and Qualifications

I completed my master's degree in clinical psychology in 2015 at the Bremen University. While I was studying, I had already gained work experience through internships and part-time jobs in various fields (educational counseling, child and adolescent psychiatry, and support for people with disabilities).

Based on my personal and political interests, toward the end of my college years I began to focus on feminist and other critical perspectives on psychology as both a field of scholarship and a field of practice. This gave rise, on the one hand, to a critical awareness of the relevance of social structures to the human psyche, and, on the other hand, to the idea of a research project on eating disorders from a feminist and queer perspective. I set out to academically explore the subjective experiences of people with eating disorders and their relationship to gender and sexuality, while also incorporating sexual and gender diversity. At the same time, I was working in youth welfare with young refugees and adolescents with mental health issues.

I carried out the project described above starting in 2017 as my dissertation , which was supervised at the Karlsruhe University of Education and the University of Tübingen. This work was supported by a doctoral fellowship from the Hans Böckler Foundation. The resulting publications have been made available open access in academic journals and the PH Karlsruhe database. Toward the end of my doctoral studies, I was primarily working in research and teaching, but developed a desire to be able to work in a practical and therapeutic capacity as well.

Thus, in 2022, i decided to begin the training as a psychotherapist at the Systemic Institute of the University Medical Center Freiburg In addition to theoretical training, this also included therapeutic work at the psychosomatic rehabilitation clinic in Gengenbach and at the Center for Psychiatry in Emmendingen. At the same time, I continued my work as an instructor in various settings, particularly through teaching at EH Freiburg and in the queer psychology in therapy and counselingcontinuing education program, which is offered by the VLSP* professional association and EH Ludwigsburg. I am currently working as a psychotherapist as part of the final phase of my training at the psychotherapy outpatient clinic of the Systemic Institute at the University Medical Center Freiburg, as well as a lecturer and freelance psychological counselor.