About me
Qualifications
- Diploma in pedagogy
- Dance therapist, authorized to train and to supervise dance therapists (BTD – German Association for Dance Therapists)
- Child and adolescent psychotherapist (Kassensitz KV Hessen)
- Certified Movement Analyst, CMA (LIMS/N.Y.)
- Teacher for the Discipline of Authentic Movement, Faculty (Circles of Four)
- Modern jazz dance teacher
Advanced training
- Further training in trauma therapy
- Certificate in EMDR for teenagers & young adults
- Nonviolent communication
- Process-oriented psychology (Mindell)
- Kestenberg Movement Profile
- Student of Dr. Janet Adler in the Discipline of Authentic Movement since 1994
Experience
- German champion in jazz formation dance and couple disco dancing in 1980
- Dancer of the Malaika Kusumi Comtemporary Dance and Mime Company 1984 -1988
- Pedagogical-choreographic activity with children and adults in creative dance and modern jazz dance 1981 -1997
- Dance therapist in a psychiatric clinic from 1988 – 1994
- Advanced training, including the German Academy for Psychoanalysis, Swiss Laban expressive dance summer academies and German employees academy
- Authentic Movement group seminars since 1998
- Independent practice as a dance and teaching therapist, supervisor (BTD) and as a child and adolescent psychotherapist from 1999 until present
- Founding and co-management of the pantarhei institute for therapy, interaction and dance in 2000
