“Either we find a way, or we create one.”
– Hannibal Barks
Career
Studied art history in Vienna: Fascinated by expression, symbolism, and the connection between art and human experience.
Growing up in Styria: Childhood in an environment where mental health was not a taboo subject, shaped by family conversations at the dinner table.
Insight into interest in people: shifting the focus from works of art to the inner struggles and emotional tensions of the people behind them.
Studied psychotherapy science at the Vienna University of Technology and Economics, specializing in behavioral therapy to work directly with people's inner selves.
Collaboration at the Research Center for Global Risks & Quality of Life: Research on psychosocial risk factors and their influence on quality of life.
Internship in the psychiatric department, Vienna General Hospital: Experience in crisis intervention and care of severely depressed patients undergoing ketamine therapy and electroconvulsive therapy (ECT).
Speaker at the World Congress of Psychotherapy 2025: Presentation of a chapter on human-machine interaction and AI in healthcare.
Internship at the day clinic for adult psychiatry, UK Tulln: Participation in diagnostics and therapy for affective and psychotic disorders.
Autism Support Vienna: Support and promotion of children with early childhood autism in everyday practical and therapeutic measures.
Caritas Corona Hotline: Psychosocial first aid and telephone crisis support during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Horse-assisted therapy in Freudenau: promoting the emotional, social, and motor development of children and adolescents.
Speaker at the World Congress of Psychotherapy 2025
Presentation of my chapter “Human-Machine Interaction in Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming the Austrian Healthcare System” within the framework of our published book “Humanism and Technology”.
Collaboration at the Research Center for Global Risks & Quality of Life
Research activities on psychosocial risk factors and their influence on quality of life in an interdisciplinary team.
Studium
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Magisterstudium Psychotherapiewissenschaften, Sigmund-Freud-Universität Wien
Schwerpunkt: Kognitive Verhaltenstherapie -
Bachelorstudium
Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien
Forschung & Fachbeiträge -
Speakerin beim Weltkongress für Psychotherapie 2025 (Wien)
Präsentation des Kapitels:
„Mensch-Maschine-Interaktion in der Medizin: Wie künstliche Intelligenz das österreichische Gesundheitswesen transformiert“
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Research Center for Global Risks and
Quality of Life
Forschung zu psychosozialen Risikofaktoren und deren Einfluss auf Lebensqualität
Interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit
Praktische Erfahrung -
AKH Wien – Psychiatrische Abteilung
Einblicke in Ketamintherapie & Elektrokrampftherapie (EKT) -
Universitätsklinikum Tulln – Tagesklinik für Erwachsenenpsychiatrie
Arbeit mit affektiven & psychotischen Störungen -
Autistenhilfe Wien
Begleitung von Kindern mit frühkindlichem Autismus -
Pferdegestützte Therapie ("Equo Hoppers", Freudenau)
Tiergestützte Interventionen mit Kindern & Jugendlichen -
Caritas Corona-Hotline
Telefonische Krisenbegleitung während der COVID-19-Pandemie
Mitgliedschaften -
Österreichischer Bundesverband für Psychotherapie (ÖBVP)
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PsyOnline
Schwerpunkte & Qualitäten -
Evidenzbasierte, verhaltenstherapeutische Arbeit inklusive Schematherapie
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Erfahrung in Krisenintervention & Akutpsychiatrie
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Interdisziplinäres Denken
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Ressourcenorientierte und empathische Haltung