My career startet with a one-year preliminary internship in design crafts: Woodwork, screen printing, sign and letter painting and varnishing. The internship made me get enrolled in a pilot program in Design Techniques at the University of Duisburg-Essen

My major coursework and my work as student tutor was with artist and Folkwang teacher Prof. Franz Rudolf Knubel who also was guest professor at the California State University, Long Beach

I finished the three-year undergraduate program in 1983, continued with wood and stone sculpting for a portfolio for sculpture school and volonteered at an International Symposium for Landscape Sculpturing in the Netherlands

My professional career spanned decades of post-graduate trainings in different humanistic approaches. I was learning from 14 German and Swiss practitioners and 5 international pioneers and practitioners: Gerda Boyesen, David Boadella, Eugene Gendlin and later Mia Leijssen and Christiane Geiser (Biodynamic, Biosynthese, Focusing, Existential Wellbeing, Processing Structure-Boundness)

I passed a seven-year-programm in person-centered training, undergoing two certification procedures at the Person-Centered Institute AGB Berlin (depth-oriented, 1998) and the Person-Centered Institute IGB Stuttgart (behavioral-oriented, 2004). The program was performed by 18 clinical teachers including Prof. Reinhard Tausch, founder of the German Person-centered Psychotherapy approach. All teachers had different backgrounds and styles of person-centered practice with critical-marxist and existential teachings from teachers of former East Berlin Institute of Person-Centered Psychotherapy

Two University degrees (Pre-Bologna equivalents to masters) from the Free University of Berlin (1992) and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (2010) were backing up my professional practice. They were based on two thesis of 410 pages in total (qualitative research and theory)

For thirty years Person-centered Experiential Psychotherapy, Counseling and Adult Education was the focus of my professional life