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From Head Work ...

I started out as a sociologist with an interest in what shapes people, what motivates them and how they live together. This turned me into a head worker first and sharpened my analytical eye for anything human. Today I benefit from this as my interest in people has shifted towards therapeutic work using dance.

... to Bodywork: Dance and Improvisation

Only much later dance and improvisation showed me how head work ignores the body and that the body is the basis and medium for anything we do and are. Through dance I could learn to feel my body anew, be touched by the world around me in novel ways and find new forms of expression.
For me that has been a rather healing experience. At the same time it is an essential element in dance therapy -- something I want to make available for others as a dance therapist. Therefore I completed the training as an Instructor for Therapeutic Dance (DGT) and currently undergo training as an Integrative Dance Therapist DGT®.

Approach

As a dance therapist I find it important to build sustainable relationships with clients based on mutual respect and appreciation. An important part of my work is to accompany people in exploring their life and support them in changing it in ways that are good for them. Like dance, therapy is communication.

I see my role, among other things, in accompanying clients on a journey along the things that mark their life and to look at these in a mutual exchange.

As a sociologist I focus not only on individual but also on social conditions. I want to accompany people and support them as they find ways of dealing with the individual and social conditions they are facing.

Diversity and Inclusion

Based in my own queer experience as well as my work on racism, gender and sexuality, disablement and inclusion I strive for a practice that is sensitive of and respectful to diversity. This includes continuous reflection of my own at times privileged position. In this way I want to contribute to developing therapeutic services that empower people to deal with social conditions rather then cementing them.