Many, if not most, people do not have a single career aspiration. That was also my case when I left school. Should I study law, to promote “international understanding” or should I choose psychology, to facilitate “people understanding”, respectively to support a person to better understand himself? I finally opted for law and I enjoyed the many years I devoted to European integration. Nevertheless, my original passion and vocation to work with people and psychology never left me. It grew even stronger …

 

I was always fascinated to meet people with different cultural backgrounds – what motivates them, the different life plans they choose, their self image, how they handle stress, their approach to self-care. Unfortunately, for many of them self-care has never really been an issue until today despite some societal change towards a better work-life balance. For many, however, this is being understood solely as devoting more time to family and children – important as well - but not for „the self“.

 

All too often, I continue to encounter (too) many people suffering with burn-out syndrome, psychosomatic illnesses or other serious illnesses such as cancer. Frequently, this is not at all sensed (or only too late….) as a wake-up call by those affected.

 

I too had to go first through a serious illness and various personal challenges before I realized that our healthy well-being, including healthy reactions to the adversities of life, requires a sufficient degree of self-care. This is a task we have to embark upon ourselves. No one else can do that for us. And, more importantly, this has nothing to do with egoism.

 

I increasingly became aware of the impact we ourselves have on the state of our health -  on our body, mind and soul, how fast we age and how healthy we remain during the aging process.

 

Much depends on how we are in contact with ourselves; whether we regularly engage in balancing stress phases with phases of regeneration; whether we invest in harmonising our flow of energies, through meditation, yoga or other techniques; the diet we follow; whether we push problems or blockages away or engage in solving them, in a mindful and compassionate way ...

 

All these are important features, for our mind and soul, but equally for our physical well-being, the state of our cells, even our “gene expression”, which is not static as we always thought. Body, mind and soul form a unity but at the same time they are impacted by our inner world and by social factors surrounding us. Everything is connected. And even more importantly: Everything can be changed, if only we are ready for it.

 

To accept change with self-confidence, and eventually even to seek it, was the basis for my path into the psychological healing profession. This  choice has rewarded me with a deep well-being that I had not experienced before. Where appropriate and desired, I share these experiences in my work with my clients.

 

After my holistic training in Germany as a non-medical practitioner for psychotherapy, I returned to Brussels to fulfill my vocation where I now opened my own private practice.

 

With hypnosis and other energising as well as humanistic processes, I enjoy an extensive and professional toolkit that has already proved its benefits. I seek to apply it according to the individual needs of my clients. I am grateful to herewith contribute to improving the quality of life and well-being of my clients in many different ways.