Vita

Studies and degrees

  • M.A. Art Therapy. College for Art Therapy Berlin | Weißensee School of Art, 2011
  • B.A. Social Work. FH Campus Vienna, 1998

Certification

  • Funeral care – with focus on the grief process. Memento Kultur:Trauer e.V. Berlin, 2023 – 2024
  • Death doula and grief councelor, Certification at Sterbeammenakademie Hamburg, 2020 – 2022
  • Palliative care for psychosocial professions. Certification at DFA Hamburg, 2021
  • Psychooncological art therapy. Certification at Mildreed Scheel Akademie Köln | Deutsche Krebshilfe, 2019

Professional experience

Dying, death and grief

  • Educational work and events related to death and grief, Death Doula Kollektiv, since 2024
  • Artistic design of urns and coffins, DunkelBunt Urnen, since 2022
  • Death doula work and grief counseling, since 2022
  • Funeral work – Freelance work for the Funeral homes:
    Thanatos Bestattungen, Charon Bestattungen and Junimond Bestattungen, since 2022
    Internships and Freelance work at the Funeral home Memento Bestattungen, 2021- 2025
  • Art therapy for palliative medicine and interdisciplinary oncology, 2015 – 2022

Art therapy

  • Art therapy at Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch:
    Clinic for palliative medicine and interdisciplinary oncology, 2015 – 2022
    Clinic for paediatric medicine and psychosomatics, 2015 – 2022
    Clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry and psychotherapy, 2015 – 2017
  • Art therapy at psychosomatic rehabilitation clinic Waldfrieden for parents and their children, 2011 – 2014
  • Open art studio group “Queer Colors” for LGBTIQ, 2012 – 2016
  • Artistic self-empowerment project “I Name Myself” for young LGBTIQ, Lambda Berlin-Brandenburg e.V., 2014 – 2015
  • Individual art therapy support for young people for outpatient youth welfare organisations, 2014 – 2015
  • Artistic self-empowerment project “Queer Empowerment by Art” or LGBTIQ, EU project in cooperation with TrIQ e.V., 2012 – 2013
  • Artistic self-empowerment workshops for LGBTIQ, LesMigras / Schulenberatung Berlin, 2012
  • Artistic self-awareness workshops for adolescents and young adults, 2012 – 2015
  • Internships: Acut-clinic for psychosomatic psychotherapy (Charité Berlin Mitte), Clinic for paediatric psychiatry & psychotherapy, (Helios Klinikum Berlin-Buch), Clinic for paediatric psychiatry & psychotherapy (Therapiezentrum Waschhaus), 2008 – 2011

Social work

  • Outpatient and inpatient social pedagogical support for youth and families (crisis centre, individual support, family support) and as street social worker with young people, 1994 – 2011
  • Internship: AIDS-Center and Hospice-clinic at St. Vincent’s Hospital / New York, 1996

Further education

  • Ritual Design for funerals: Modul on grief and mourning. memento Kultur:Trauer e.V. Berlin, 2022
  • Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction according to Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn. Silke Hilgers Berlin, 2019 / 2020
  • Resource-oriented biography work. Sfbb Berlin-Brandenburg, 2019
  • Creative memory work. Vergiss mein nie / Leuchtfeuer Lotsenhaus, Hamburg, 2019
  • Nonverbal communication in end-of-life care. Astrid Steinmetz | KoW, 2018
  • Mindfulness in psychotherapy. AWP Berlin 2017
  • Grief counselling for children and adults. Marianne van Kempen | Sfbb Berlin-Brandenburg, 2016 / 2017
  • Trauma art therapy. Alanus University School 2016
  • Emotional support for tumour patients. Wannsee Schule Berlin, 2015
  • Humour in end-of-life care. Wannsee Schule Berlin, 2015
  • Dignity-centred psycho-oncology. TumorZentrumBerlin e.V. 2015
  • Transidentity in children and adolescents. LADS Berlin 2012
  • Depression research. Charité Berlin, 2012
  • Therapeutic work with children and young people in the context of sexual and gender identity. Schwulenberatung Berlin, 2011
  • Developmental psychiatry and sexual medicine. Vivantes Klinikum im Friedrichshain, Berlin, 2011

Experiences from the professional world that I also bring with me

Part-time jobs as an outpatient care / nursing assistant, as an aide in an old people’s home, in a call centre, as a care taker for youth tours for youth with disabilities, household help, handicraft course leader, seamstress in industrial production, with a puppet maker and costume designer and as a helping hand at sand sculpture festivals.