Sharing my expertise with interdisciplinary colleagues and laypeople is a matter close to my heart, particularly in the context of prevention, care, and peace work. I particularly enjoy the authentic exchange.

I began my training as an EMDR therapist for children and adolescents according to EMDR Europe criteria in 2002 in Cape Town, South Africa; in 2011 I was trained in Germany as an EMDR KJ supervisor at the KinderTraumaInstitut and since 2017 I have been an accredited EMDR KJ trainer according to EMDR Europe criteria, since 2023 EMDR KJ Senior Trainer. 

I have extensive therapeutic experience in the EMDR treatment of children and adolescents in outpatient, (partial) inpatient and acute inpatient psychotherapeutic and psychiatric settings in a wide variety of contexts (outpatient clinics, clinics, crisis areas) and cultures (South Africa, Germany, USA). My focus is on complex trauma: in particular, working with children and adolescents who have survived violence; refugees; adolescents with addictions and systemic challenges characterize my spectrum, but also working with chronically ill children is part of it. 

Since 2017, I have been training EMDR KJ therapists in German or English as part of in-house training courses at clinics and various training institutes.