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.
Training as a companion for the dying at the hospice association “Leben im Sterben” e.V. in Hildesheim. Voluntary accompaniment of people on the last passage of their life’s journey.
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).