Experience

I began providing professional psychosocial support in 1990. Since 2003, I have also been working as a psychotherapist in private practice in Vienna.

Professional experience

Practice, teaching and professional leadership

Support for children, adolescents and their families facing serious difficulties, New York, USA

Training in systemic family therapy, Children's Village, New York, USA

Verein Wiener Jugendzentren, working with children and adolescents

Advanced training in women-specific counselling, Centre for Applied Psychology and Women's Research, Vienna/Cologne

Addiction work with people who use substances, are dependent or at risk of addiction, as well as with their relatives; many years in a leadership role

Workplace consulting for employees of the European Patent Office Vienna

Certified trainer in Motivational Interviewing, Centre for Motivation & Change (A, I, NL)

Lectures, workshops and seminars nationally and internationally

Qualifications

Professional roles

Psychotherapist, gender- and culture-sensitive

Training therapist and training supervision (also in the field of child and adolescent work)

Qualified social worker

Lecturer at Danube University Krems

Speaker for Fachstelle NÖ

Speaker in the psychotherapy propaedeutic programme

Trainer in Motivational Interviewing

Lecturer nationally and internationally (AT, DE, NL, USA, UA, EST)