About Me

I am an English-speaking FSP registered psychologist and psychotherapist. I am Swiss by birth,  and have lived in Switzerland for most of my teenage years, but South Africa has been my childhood home, as well as the place where I fulfilled my calling to become a clinical psychologist. I therefore refer to multiple places as my home, and carry this sensibility into my clinical work.

As a result of my psychoanalytic training, I have a keen awareness of the psychological conflicts that often operate outside of our awareness, and organise the ways that we relate to ourselves, others, and the world. In my work, I strive for the recognition and integration of these conflicts, using a robust psychoanalytic understanding of the mind and a range of cutting-edge interventions. 

My other interests in the interrogation of race, gender, sexuality, and the socio-political in contemporary psychoanalytic work have extended to multiple academic publications, as well as the foundation of the South African Institute for Relational Studies. This institute is a cutting-edge training ground for like-minded psychoanalytic clinicians interested in the transmissions of intergenerational trauma and for psychologists-in-training and supervisees open to deepening their clinical work.