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