I am here to help you find YOUR JOY in a busy world.

My personal journey and why I became a coach:

I have always felt a desire to understand human beings…

… what they secretly thought

… why they behaved in certain ways

… why they really wanted but were too scared to just say

… how they could change their lives and become better.

Both of my parents are doctors (so was my grandfather and grandmother, one of the first women doctors at her time) and as a child, I watched how they loved their professions and made an impact in the world. I decided to follow their footsteps and completed my pre-med studies with excellent grades.

On the outside, I received a lot of praise and my life looked great, but on the inside, I felt lonely and started to have doubts. The jobs I held in various medical offices did not satisfy me. In fact, I didn’t like a single doctor I worked for and felt like all they did was rush around and prescribe medications. All I wanted to do was ask why these patients had certain symptoms in the first place. I wanted to hear their stories, ask them questions, connect and help them heal in a more gentle way.

After I graduated from pre-med, I myself started experiencing excruciating back pain. I ended up getting diagnosed with herniated disks in my lower spine and went back to my home country of Germany to have surgery. During my recovery, my mom gave me a book by Rüdiger Dahlke titled “Illness as the language of the soul.”

It completely transformed me.

I vividly remember reading that in the case of the spine, the vertebrae represent the masculine parts of yourself while the disks embody your feminine parts. When they are in balance, your spine is healthy, flexible, and strong. Contrary, when a disk herniates there is literally no space for the feminine, for play, for flexibility and for joy. I couldn’t stop crying because I knew this was me. My life had become consumed with achievements and making sure that what I was doing looked good on the outside. My self-worth was entirely dependent on external validation and I had a hard time relaxing because the voice of guilt was so loud.

To make a long story short, I made the scary yet bold decision to withdraw my medical school applications and instead got my M.A. in Counseling Psychology. I loved studying the human mind, understanding how our past experiences shape who we are, and diving deep into the mind-body connection.

After completing my M.A. I learned about life-coaching and was instantly intrigued. While I loved helping people make sense of how their pasts impact them, my inner optimist held a strong belief that people can change, that no matter our pasts, we have all we need to create beautiful lives. Within 6 months of graduating from my M.A. program in 2012, I opened my life-coaching business.

Additionally, in 2015, I got certified as a Health Coach, which felt like a beautiful way to combine my passion for mind-body work.

Many of my clients today come to me because they feel stuck, often exhausted and anxious, and overwhelmed by navigating their lives. Together, we pause, we make space and look closely. We listen to our bodies and our intuition and we bring things back into harmony and alignment by taking confident steps forward.