Professional experience
Since 2023: Self-employed as a systemic therapist and psychological online counselor. Since October 2023, active on Instahelp, an Austrian online platform for psychological counseling.
2000-2022: Employed at Komm Rum e.V., Berlin. Counselor in assisted living for mentally ill adults (assisted single living and therapeutic shared living). Temporarily engaged in a work rehabilitation project, in the contact and counseling center and participation in the district steering committee on psychiatry. Supervision of group training in social skills (Hinsch & Pfingsten) and staff training on the "Open Dialogue" approach and network conversations.
2013 - 2014: "Sabbatical year" in Iceland. Various activities: Working in a school kitchen, as contractor for a travel agency, and self-employed as a consultant.
1999 - 2001: Counselor in assisted living for mentally ill adults at Unionhilfswerk, Sozialeinrichtungen gGmbH, Berlin.
1995 Internship at the contact and counseling center of Komm Rum e.V., Berlin-Friedenau.
1992 - 1998: Parallel to studies: Social pedagogical individual case assistance through the district offices of Tiergarten and Wilmersdorf and work in home care at Ambulante Dienste e.V., Berlin.
1988 - 1990: Employed in a pharmacy in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1985 - 1986: Nine months employed as a medical secretary at the National Hospital in Reykjavik, Iceland. Subsequently au pair in Munich for six months.
Various temporary jobs in Iceland such as in an office and a fish factory.