"We will not find,
what is up to us,
to bring into the world."Markus Mirwald
Until the end of my twenties, I was a rather overly-intellectual, "well-functioning" person. Then followed years of intense self-discovery and reimagening of how I want to be and live in this world. And now, I am truly experiencing a new quality and depth of life. With gratitude, humility, and great joy, I now accompany other people on their journey.
I love nature, reading, writing, painting, authentic encounters, philosophical discussions and projects that make the world a tiny bit better.
Together with Alexandra Mayr, I was interviewed by Andrea Schwiebert for the "passion for talent"-podcast on the topic of psychotherapy for the gifted (in German).
Background
- Born in the late 1980s
- Grown up in the Salzburg region
- First educational and career path in (theoretical) computer science (completed PhD in 2017), with stops in Austria, USA, Italy and Israel, 2006 – 2022
- Psychotherapy training at APG and ÖAGG in Vienna since 2020
- Psychosocial support work in partially assisted living KoMiT 2022 – 2024
- Psychotherapist in training under supervision at Institute of Psychotherapy, Neuromed Campus, Kepler University Hospital Linz, June – August 2025, focus on acute psychiatry
- Since November 2025 self-employed as psychotherapist in training under supervision
Additional Psychotherapeutic Training
- Diversity of Gender Variations (Courage/ÖGS/ÖBVP)
- Giftedness and exceptional giftedness (Frauke Niehues)
- Scenic work with fairy tales and dreams (Kolleg.ium IT ÖAGG)
- Autism among adults (Autistenhilfe, Brit Wilczek, Nicolai Semmler)
- Courses on ADHS among adults, skills-training, crisis intervention and suicid prevention, addiction, personality disorders
- Reading group on humanistic psychotherapy and phenomenological psychopathology (in German)
Internships
- Acute psychiatry for adults, hospital of Floridsdorf, Vienna
- Psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic ÖAGG, Vienna
- Leader of a self-help group for people with schizophrenia, Pro Mente Vienna
- Nursing home Vösendorf
- Psychodrama group therapy with children and teenagers, Phönix center, Vienna
„Take the Funk and the Fire and Friction
Transform it all in me
I am my own magician
Making magic with my heartbeat
I see beauty all around me
I am blessed with all of this
I know pain and I know suffering
Human I am
I’m Lovin‘ this life Lovin‘ this life as it is […]
Receive the fullness,
Give what’s mine to give […]
Breathe me open, I am openin‘
Season me with time
Pure devotion moves through me
A heart present and kind
And one day at a time, is all that I can live
I’m learnin‘ as I go, growin‘ each moment[…]“
MaMuse – Funk, Fire and Friction