My professional foundation lies in rigorous studies and academic excellence. I graduated in the top 10% of German medical students in my year, published research papers in peer reviewed journals and won a research price for my thesis. My completed doctoral research also gave me the legal right to playfully call myself Dr. Beatrice. I LOVED science – but just working in the lab wasn’t really doing it for me. 
As I care deeply about the future generations and am fascinated by the mind, I decided to become a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist and Therapist. I trained in classical psychodynamic talk therapy. Soon, mainly talking felt like something important was missing. Something that I felt so present in the room during every session – the body.
I got interested in Somatic Therapies. I became an EFT-Practitioner (Emotional Freedom Technique), and I was amazed by the shifts I witnessed in myself and my clients. I learned about Energy Psychology and Peter Levine’s work with somatic experiencing. I started to be able to put a language to the sensations and energies I was feeling in my body. Later, I trained in EMDR – something that I had initially thought of as “magic” and later learned to appreciate as memory reconsolidation and the incredible self-healing capacities of our brain and body. I loved my work as a trauma therapist. I was humbled and in awe as I witnessed the strength and post-traumatic growth in some of my patients. Humans, and in particular teenagers, are just amazing like that.

However, for some patients, even when symptoms stabilised, I felt that something was still lacking. I did not just want to see them get by, which was an amazing feat and testimony to their resilience in and of itself, but I rooted for them to truly shine – to fully reclaim their aliveness, feel safe in pleasure and explore and enjoy a fulfilling sexuality. I knew in the depth of my soul that it must be possible. My personal philosophy was that they were in need of care but that there was nothing to fix. The core had always been whole, unbroken, waiting patiently to feel safe enough to shine again. However, making people shine wasn’t really my task as a therapist. My job in the hospital usually ended after stabilisation.

Then, I discovered a new path on my quest for deeper intimacy in my own relationship. I got introduced to Layla Martin and the VITA™-Coaching Certification (Vital Integrated Tantric Approach) to become a VITA™ Sex, Love and Relationship Coach. This was an in depth course based on tantric and taoist teachings, but also plenty of science and even more embodiment work. With over 600 hours of training, a super long reading list and months of self development work – my learning mind was more than intrigued and the rest of me was a big YES anyway! It felt like the missing piece for my life AND my work. The course was intense – expansions were followed by contractions and bigger expansions. We journeyed deep and far into ourselves, so we could meet our future clients from a place of embodied experience. With every layer of conditioning shed, every dark corner and perfectly imperfect part of myself that received a little more light and the celebration of every drop of pleasure that I allowed in on the way – I fell deeper and deeper in love with myself, life and the healing power of pleasure and ritual. I realised the sacredness of this work and the intuitive wisdom in my body and in some of the ancient teachings. There were moments where everything alive felt sacred and exquisitely intimate – no drugs involved (and there is beginning to be cool research on rituals to back my experience up). That is when I truly made Love my favourite superpower and Pleasure my favourite sidekick.

Being able to share this holistic approach with my clients – to combine Science, Somatics and the Sacred (mind, body and spirit/soul) brings me an enormous amount of joy. It feels like I can offer the deepest expression of my unique gifts as a Coach, while I continue traveling down this road alongside my clients. I am forever learning and blessed to be in this line of work. I am deeply grateful that in the Coaching Container and ritual space my clients can explore themselves audaciously and I can guide them beyond the confines of where I can go in traditional medicine, while I’ll provide a deeply grounded baseline through my in-depth training and personal experience.

As a Psychiatrist and Therapist I am dedicated to encourage children and teenagers to take the important first steps on their path to healing and help them move to a safer place in their lives.

As an Intimacy- and Embodiment Coach for adults, I am here to support you in a different part of your journey – the one from ok and stable to thriving and beyond your wildest dreams. I am here to cheer you on, to encourage you to claim your deepest desires and to co-create a unique way to get you there – with love, depth, playfulness, pleasure and the powerful tools that I learned over the years. Let’s make your journey to Dare to Shine a brave, joyful and exquisite one.
I am so ready – Do you want to join?

• studied Medicine at Hamburg University (UKE), Germany, studied and worked in France and Scotland as part of my degree. Graduated in the top 10% of all German medical students in my year.

• graded as outstanding in my pre-clinical Elective Course : “Psychosexual Development”

• recipient of a prestigious faith-based scholarship for high achieving students during my studies (Cusanuswerk) and part of the “Excellence Programme” of Hamburg University

• published in peer reviewed papers and received the Klaus-Thomsen Price for best doctoral thesis in the field of gynaecology

• finished training as a junior doctor (residency) for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry; extensive clinical experience in the fields of Neurodivergence, eating disorders and PTSD

• specialised in psychodynamic talk therapy

• certified Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT-Tapping) practitioner (Professional Skills Level 1 and 2 with ACEP)

• certified EMDR practitioner (Level 1 with EMDRIA)

• trained in Catathym Imaginative Psychotherapy (KIP), Progressive Muscle Relaxation and Autogenic Training

• VITA™ Coach for Sex, Love and Relationship, taught by Layla Martin (Certification ongoing)

• VITA™ Coach for Jade Egg (Certification ongoing)