Independent
In-depth
Far-sighted

About me

Psychologically and systemically grounded
Extensive training in psychodynamic coaching and Gestalt therapy – for work that goes beyond the surface
Expertise in relationships and organization
Leadership experience in companies and a deep understanding of interpersonal dynamics – both privately and professionally
Precise & empathetic
I combine analytical clarity with a keen sense of what is being said and what lies between the lines.
With clarity and depth
I get to the point and linger where it matters—without detours, but taking the time it needs.
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I am also
42 years old, married, and father of two daughters. Raised in an international and intercultural environment and professionally experienced.

Figures, data, facts

More than 100
coaching clients
6-years
of coach-training
Senior Coach
+2500 hours
1:1 coaching
Certificate & Association Membership
Education & Studies
Positions & professional experience

My approach

I work psychodynamically and systemically, with an eye for inner patterns, outer contexts, and the interactions between them. My goal is to create spaces for orientation—especially where certainties end and paths are still unclear. Change does not come about through optimization, but through deep understanding: What drives me? What is holding me back? In doing so, I combine analytical clarity with resonance-oriented support. Intelligent sorting and weighing up are just as much a part of my practice as intensive feeling and experiencing.
You cannot step into the same river twice.
– Heracltus
My approach is based on the conviction that lasting change requires more than good advice or new techniques. It needs space to make inner dynamics visible, to understand unconscious patterns, and to open up new scope for action.

I work across different schools of thought: psychodynamic concepts help to understand the unconscious and old conditioning. Systemic perspectives show how contexts and relationships shape our experience. Gestalt therapy elements enable intense moments of experience in which change is not only thought about but also experienced.

It is always important to me that I do not work on you, but with you. Coaching is not a repair shop, but a joint process in which you remain the expert on your own life. My job is to hold space, to mirror, to irritate—and to remain present, even when it becomes uncomfortable.
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What I stand for

I work with precision, warmth, and an ear for resonance. What matters to me is that coaching doesn’t stay on the surface but actually moves something. To that end, I combine clarity with empathy: I name what I perceive without losing contact with you. Honesty, and the willingness to address what is uncomfortable, are part of what good coaching means to me.

Real change takes courage: the courage to look, to pause, and to engage with what may have been avoided for a long time. That can be demanding. But it is precisely there that movement with staying power arises, rather than mere adaptation. This is why I create a space that allows for both: steadiness and movement, security and new departure, even when old certainties end and what comes next has yet to take shape. A space in which you may show yourself without being judged, and in which, at the same time, what shows itself is clearly named. For only what is perceived can change.

In doing so, I take the complexity of your situation seriously. The professional and the personal cannot be cleanly separated; inner dynamics radiate outward, and outer contexts shape our experience. That is why I don’t work in isolation on individual “problems,” but look at the whole: at you as a person, at your relationships, and at the systems you move within.
What truly changes us cannot be calculated — it can only be lived.
Especially in times of artificial intelligence, what cannot be delegated becomes all the more important to me. AI asks good reflective questions, recognizes patterns, and proposes paths toward your goals — around the clock and patiently, and I use these tools myself. Yet the decisive things cannot be calculated. They arise in genuine encounter: in resonance, in presence, in the willingness to be touched. A counterpart who resonates with you, who confronts where it becomes uncomfortable, and who can bear what does not resolve right away — that is something no machine can replace. Coaching, for me, therefore does not mean dispensing interventions like a vending machine.

A presence that has effect, and an integrity that holds, mature in a process in which three things grow not one after another, but at the same time: one’s own self-experience, theoretical depth, and practical work with people. None of them carries on its own — anyone who mistakes personal experience for competence has confused being affected with being able. On this foundation I accompany you as a DBVC/IOBC-certified coach: grounded in depth psychology, sharpened by experience as an advisor and leader, and with a genuine understanding of your context. What you find with me is not a toolbox, but a counterpart who knows such processes from the inside and can, at the same time, understand and shape them.

And: I take your time seriously. Coaching is an investment — in yourself, in your own development. That is why I work in a focused way and, at once, with the patience and care that deep processes require.
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