Born and raised in Romania as part of a German speaking minority, I came to Germany at the age of twelve. I know firsthand what it feels like to be a stranger in a new country - even if I already spoke the language perfectly. My love for the English language comes from that time, when as a 12 year old teenager, I desperately wanted to know what they sang about in those wonderful 80ies pop songs. My "school English" became more fluent through expat friends that I made in Germany and time spent in England, Scotland and the US. Now, I take great pride in offering psychotherapy to the English speaking expat community in Cologne - no matter if English is your first or second language. 

My path to psychotherapy wasn’t a straight line. Before studying psychology and training as a therapist, I spent several years working in organizational and marketing roles for internationally known companies -with mainly English as the business language. 

At a certain point, my priorities changed and I started studying psychology at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with the clear aim to become a psychotherapist. My further training took place in Cologne, where I gained further clinical experience in in-patient psychiatric care as well as outpatient individual, couples and group therapy. In 2012 I opened my own practice in Cologne. My therapeutic approach is built on scientifically backed and individually tailored solutions, transparency — and humour :-).

Additional training in trauma therapy (EMDR), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and clinical hypnosis rounds out my clinical toolkit. Professional memberships include the Chamber of Psychotherapists of North Rhine-Westphalia, the DPtV, EMDRIA Germany, and the Milton Erickson Association, Germany. In addition to my practice work, I represent Psychological Psychotherapists on the district board of the KV Nordrhein in Cologne and organize a quarterly meetup for Cologne-based psychotherapists.