How am I different?

I am driven by curiosity about the world, which led me to pursue a career in academia first before embarking upon a path to become a therapist. I am a Professor of Mindfulness and Business at University of Surrey, UK and Health and Mindfulness Coach. I have taught and practiced mindfulness for many years (e.g. Yoga, Meditation and Breathwork), which led me to establish my first business in 2022: Mindfulness Spaces.

My therapeutic approach is underpinned by my research in mindfulness, therapeutic training and experience as a coach. I developed a three step framework UCI to work with the whole of you.

I am interested in understanding your issues from a cognitive, emotional and physical level in the context of your world (e.g. work, home, lifestyle, habits). To explore and understand your world from these three different lenses allows us to gain deep insights about your thoughts, emotions and physical experiences. These insights are required to work at a deeper level and help us to create new meaning, new knowledge and new ways of thinking, feeling and physically experiencing.

Clinical hypnosis, embodied and emotion-focused therapy, mindfulness including art-based methods, lifestyle medicine and talking therapy are my therapy tools of choice to gain a deeper understanding of ourselves and create new meaning of our issues and world. Through this approach we learn to integrate our insights into life and we can make real changes pretty fast with long lasting positive impact reflecting your desired outcome. For me that is the goal of successful therapy.

To understand, create and integrate further enables us to free our mind, get rid of contractions and distractions that no longer serve us. We can be more content and at ease with our experience because we learn how to control our consciousness, which is the key to free our mind. I know that we all have the ability to free our mind. If I can, you can.

At present I work with adults, from 18+ years old. Based on my extensive experience as an academic and parent of twins, I am also very welcoming to young adults 18-25 years and parents/guardians of multiples/ twins.

Other facts about me:

I am Austrian and live in England since 2006 and I speak German and English fluently. I love dogs, being in nature and I am blessed with three children including twins.