Personal:

I’m an American-Swiss citizen and I work in English, German and in Swiss dialect. I began work as a therapist in my private practice in Zürich in 1985, and currently also work in a group practice for psychiatry and psychotherapy. Prior to my training in Switzerland in analytical psychology, I worked in the USA for 15 years in the field of chemical metallurgy research .

Certification

Certified as an independent Psychotherapist
Department of Health, Kanton Zürich

Certified for delegated psychotherapy
Department of Health, Kanton Zürich

Recognized by the Association of Zürch Health Insurance Companies as an independent Psychotherapist
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Professional skills / responsibilities:

During my 22 years of practice I’ve worked with adults in long and short-term psychotherapy with the wide variety of symptoms and disturbances that is usual for ambulant practice My strengths are in the following areas:

Treatment of adult victims of recent and childhood trauma including emotional neglect) and the associated disturbances, especially PTSD and the dissociative disorders.
      
Problems in sexual orientation;
 (sexual identity, homosexuality, bisexuality)

Relationship problems resulting from difficulties in communication, expressing emotions, sexual intimacy.

     Jealousy

     Depression,

     Low self esteem

     Anxiety and panic attacks

     Eating and Sleep disturbances

     Phobias,

     Disorientation in time and place. 

I’m currently interested in the phenomena:

      mobbing and "bossing" (mobbing by
      the boss)      

      unfulfilled pregnancy wishes

      Jealousy

      Sexual and emotional Intimacy Issues

     disturbances resulting from emotional
     neglect in childhood
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Membership in professional organizations:

SPV/ASP (Organization of Swiss Psychotherapists

GedaP (Society of Psychotherapists in Delegation)

SGAP (Swiss Society for Analytical Psychology)

ISSD (International Society for the Study of Dissociation)

ISAP (International Seminar for Analytical Psychology)

EMDR-Schweiz (Swiss Professional Society for EMDR)

IAAP (International Association for Analytical Psychology) ------
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Training / education

Therapist for Trauma-focussed Psychotherapy
Psychotherapeutisches Institut im Park,
Schaffhausen, Switzerland (Training Ongoing)

EMDR-Therapist
EMDR-Institute , Switzerland

Diploma Analytical Psychology
C. G. Jung Institute Zürich

M.Sc.  S. Connecticut University
Connecticut, USA

                               
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Therapy methods

The focus is of course on the problem that the client presents and it’s effect on their ability to complete normal daily tasks and their ability to function in their personal, familial and professional relationships. The client’s belief’s, behaviour patterns and especially bodily symptoms and ailments that seem to have no medical explanation are central to formulating a treatment strategy.


My role is to guide the client in through 3 phases:

    1. understanding the cause of their problem

    2. becoming conscious of their own resources
    such as personality characteristics, successful
    coping strategies, as well as dreams, memories
    and their imagination

    3. learning to use their resources to change an
    old behaviour pattern, or an old idea that we
    identify as being the cause of the problem.

The goal is to resume daily functioning and and
 personal growth. Sometimes this means finding a
 new way to live with a problem or affliction rather
 than getting rid of it.


The keystones of my therapy method are:

    Jungian theories on how the the psyche
    functions, in combination with the techniques
    of Watkins’ Ego-State Therapy, the behaviour
    therapies, and especially the somatic therapy
    concepts of Levine and Rothschild.

    The clients’ own resources

    My skills and experience


When working with trauma victims I use
spcialized protocols with the Screen Technique (l. Besser), Somatic experiencing (Levine and Rothschild), Ego-State-Therapy and the accelerated memory processing technique of F. Shapiro, called EMDR. Such protocols are designed to stabilize the client enabling them to come to terms with the experience without being
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Other responsibilities:

1993 - 2004 Lecturer and examiner, Teaching analyst, C. G. Jung Institute Zürich

1997 - 2003 Participation in Research Project “Practice-based Study of long-term Psychotherapy” (PAL)

2004 - present Teaching analyst SGAP (Swiss Society for Analytical Psychology); Lecturer at the International Seminar for Analytical Psychology (ISAP). Subject area: Symbol interpretation and developmental Psychology.

Psychological Evaluations of applicants for disability pensions for the Pension Department Kanton Zürich












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