WHO I WAS
1969
born in Hildesheim, Lower Saxony, Germany
1990
A-levels and a straight career path
Community service, jobbing, travelling
Apprenticeship in insurance and reinsurance
Successful professional career
in a multicultural environment
Manager in a leading international
financial services company
Numerous international business trips
from 1995
Private and professional challenges as the cause of a range of mental and physical symptoms of suffering:
– social phobia & generalised anxiety disorder
– depressive episodes
– chronic tinnitus
– sleep disorders
– chronic sinus problems
– numerous dental root canal surgeries
– incipient addictive behaviour
A life without balance.
Loss of self-determination.
Suppression of one’s own needs.
Superficial professional functioning.
Internal family challenges.
From the outside, a socially and financially successful life.
2015
The low point:
Increasing experiences of burnout
Acute visit to psychiatric outpatient clinic
Diagnosis of depression
Recommendation: inpatient treatment of acute symptoms
Rejection of treatment.
Instead, attempt to compensate for the permanent psychological pressure through extreme sports.
2017
Further search for healing
A turning point
Intuitive inspiration: setting out on the Way of St. James
10 life-changing pilgrimage days
Beginning of my holistic
change
Healing the health limitations
Belief in free will
New possibilities for shaping one’s life
Beginning of a self-determined life
End of 2017
Self-efficacy experiences and sustainable success for me through Psych-K balances.
Development as a Psych-K® facilitator during 2017 to 2022.
2018
Decision to resign
my secure professional position
within the next three years
and professional reorientation.
2019
Physical healing successes through conversion to a plant-based diet.
Acquisition of the German state healing licence of Alternative Medical Practitioner limited to the field of psychotherapy (Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie).
2020
Training as a certified health coach at the Institute For Integrative Nutrition (IIN), New York.
Pursuit of the topics of the psychological evolution of the human being, methods of consciousness development, value- and needs-oriented lifestyle, also in the corporate context, occupied me in parallel.
2021
Second pilgrimage after resignation.
Training as EFT (Clinical Emotional Freedom Technique)-Practitioner, EFTUniverse, USA.
2022
Establishment of my company safespaceforchange.de
Logo as a symbol for passing through a portal into a safe space that is available to people to overcome mental health conditions (Alternative Practitioner Of Psychotherapy) and to implement sustainable change (Integrative Coaching).
2024
Training to become an IHK-certified ICE coach
