| Painting was my passion, music was my love. |
This feeling accompanied me then as it does now. Rigid structures and abstract formulas, such as those of mathematics, were alien to me. So I decided to study the violin after passing the entrance exam. On this path, I remained ambitious and consistent, traveled to many countries as a chamber musician and became a professor at the Art University of Graz with my own pupils and students.
I was born in Vienna, Austria, lived and studied in Graz, but my private and work life was mostly in both cities. In the violin lessons with my students, I was always confronted with their psychological needs. As a result, I decided to take further training in art therapy for multimedia expression. In this context, I developed training approaches, especially in group constellations, to mentally prepare artists for their respective stage situations. At the same time, I was able to introduce mental training as a then new subject at the Art University. Moreover, thanks to an endowment, this project was also financially supported for years in my private practice for music and art students in individual units.
As a young professor, I naturally became aware of my own needs through the problems my students faced. Music alone was clearly unable to unlock the mysteries of life for me. In my search for new vitality, I was left with a very special memory of a psychology professor whom I asked for advice at the time. As he tried to classify me into a special field, he concluded our conversation with the words:
| You are situated in-between. |
This expression suddenly became the key to my previously unclear feeling of not really belonging anywhere. In between? Where is that? After pursuing this topic from several perspectives, I finally found my own inner home through the idea of Individuation by Carl Gustav Jung. Here I found both the necessary structure and the necessary free space enabling my further development, free from dogma.
With the same devotion that made me a musician, I began parallel to my professional work to study at the C.G. Jung Institute of Vienna, where I completed my training as an analyst. I was particularly influenced by the Canadian analyst Marion Woodman with her originally female perspective. I have had my private practice in Vienna for over 20 years now.
Looking back at my professional life, I become ever aware of two areas that should always go hand in hand and that for me have remained inseparably linked: fundamental basic knowledge and the necessary free space. Only in such a space - psychologically expressed as an "intermediate space" - can something new, a so-called "third", emerge from a polarity. Slowly I recognized my own approach. With the necessary specialist knowledge in my luggage, I wanted to embark repeatedly on the adventure of the human soul and,
| simply to be a creative, lively human being. |
Having enjoyed all my professional years as a musician and as an analyst, I now want to explore new horizons. I look back with great gratitude to have gained such deep insights into the soul through the dreams, imaginations and expressiveness of my clients. I now want to take all these exciting experiences with me to share dreams with one another in a group setting.
