My professional background 

Education, work life and experience 

I graduated from Aarhus University (Denmark) in 2014 with a master in psychology. Shortly after that I got a position at a psychiatric out-patient unit in Silkeborg (Denmark), where I worked for 10 years with psychotherapeutic treatment of anxiety disorders, PTSD, OCD, depression and personality disorders.

After moving to Copenhagen in 2025,  I stayed in the "trauma lane" and worked for "Fønix" treating teenagers subject to sexual trauma as well as working with their families. I got hands-on experience in systemic work, focusing on the significance of internal family dynamics for the well-being of each family member.   

In 2024 I achieved specialization in psychotherapy with adults according to the Danish Psychological Association. This means that I have done quite a lot of psychotherapy training programmes, attended many clinically relevant seminars, and had my cases supervised by more experienced psychologists. I have also done a lot of psychotherapy myself with psychologists who were specialized in psychotherapy with adults. This specialization is thus a stamp of approval and means I have extensive knowledge about psychotherapy as well as in-depth training. 

My main psychotherapeutic training is a 3 year education in Intensive Short-term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) which means I am specialized in a psychodynamic approach.

This means that I am particularly interested in what lies beneath the surface of the psyche. 

I acknowledge the protective layers we all have around the most painful places in our inner lives. These protective layers consist of defense mechanisms that typically served us well earlier on, but today have undesirable consequences.

E.g. shutting down emotionally as a child when you didn't have a lot of other options when you were emotionally owerwhelmed. As an adult detaching from your emotions out of unconscious habit could then be your default mode setting. This setting typically makes for an uncomfortable sense of emptiness and entails that you miss out on the cues for navigating life and relationships that access to your emotions gives. 

In therapy, traditionally a lot of work has been about identifying these mechanisms and understanding their origin. 

But to stir the pot a bit - which is something I sometimes enjoy doing: 

AI chatbots can also help you with that.

Why then see a psychologist when instant help is in your pocket?

One thing is recognizing and understanding your patterns, another is changing how your psyche works and "updating it" to a version that works optimally in your current life.

I can help you with that. 

But there are so many treatment modalities - how do I know what is the best approach? 

Don't worry, I have done the work for you. I have thoroughly inspected different therapeutic approaches and gained experience in what treatment modalities typically work better (at least in my hands) than others. 

The embodied mind  

It is a common experience being able to think alternative thoughts about yourself and rationally believing them - but not really feeling the truth of it in your body.

E.g. Someone with PTSD knows rationally that they are no longer in danger and that their traumatic situation is over. But their body reacts with a pounding heart, excessive perspiration and a strong impulse to flee, whenever they are in a situation that reminds them of the traumatic incident. The body isn't easily convinced about what's rational. 

Catch phrases within the trauma field such as "the issues are in the tissues" and"the body keeps the score" bear witness to this. Often, talking about our psychological wounds and problems isn't enough to feel better about them. We need to experience a visceral difference and experience in an embodied way that the now is different from the past.  

All of the therapeutic approaches I have specialized in, are anchored in the body. 

This means that the goal of therapy isn't just to think differently, but to viscerally sense that something is different. In my experience that makes it so much easier to change your behavioural patterns too. 

And for therapy to be truly transformative we need to act differently - otherwise therapy is just a form of intellectual gymnastics. 

In the next blog post you can read about my self-development path and the therapeutic approaches I most frequently use, because I know that they are efficient in bringing about embodied transformation.