• Certifying Coordinator of The International Focusing Institute
• Senior Teacher of the German Focusing Network FN
• Certified FOT with Specialization in FOAT®
• Personcentred Psychotherapist and Teaching Consultant, Counselor for Existential Wellbeing
• Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® Practitioner, Certified Guided Drawing® Practitioner
• Art Therapist in Training.
• Registered non-medical Practitioner for Psychotherapy
• M.Psych., M.Ed.

2020 - 2022 currently running

Scientific Training in Art Therapy, Catholic University of Applied Sciences Freiburg/GER

2020

Courses in Trauma Informed Practise in Counceling and Expressive Arts Therapy at PESI Health Care and Caldwell University, New Jersey/US

2019-2020

Advanced Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® Training, Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute, Santa Rosa/USA

2020

Course Healing with the Arts, Certificate University of Florida/US

2019

Training in Healing Trauma with Guided Drawing® (Certified GD® Practitioner), Institute for Sensorimotor Art Therapy and School for Initiatic Art Therapy, Apollo Bay/ AU

2019

Course Natural Historic Illustration: Nature, Science and Culture, Certificate University of Newcastle/AU

2018

Practical courses with Paolo Pesi, Pistoia/ITA, Herbert Schmidt/Künstlerhof Rottenburg and Andrea Gauß/Künstlerei Tübingen

2017-2019

Training in Focusing Oriented Expressive Arts FOAT® (Certified FOAT® Practitioner), Focusing and Expressive Arts Institute, Santa Rosa/USA

1983/84

Art Brut for self-therapy

1983

Wood carving summer workshop with Thomas Wojciechowicz, Saarbrücken.

Study tours to International Stone Sculpture Symposia in Vienna and the Netherlands

1982

Artist at the International Stone Sculpture Symposium Kaiserslautern

1980–1983

Study of Design Technique GH Essen

Focus of studies: Stone Sculpture Prof. Franz Rudolf Knubel

1978 - 1980 Internships in the creative handicraft: screen printing, signwriter and
typeface painting, painter and varnisher. Training course in carpentry, Düsseldorf