About Sophie

My life's journey is anything but linear. I earned my high school diploma at an evening school after several school transitions. Spent five years in Stockholm (I am half-Swedish), and studied Gender Studies. I worked with elderly and seriously ill people, and in between I went to Paris to model for Rick Owens and Maison Martin Margiela. I also worked as a fashion design assistant in Paris and Düsseldorf, applied to art universities, and collaborated with various artists.

I studied Educational Science, and worked as a social pedagogue with children in schools and after-school care, and later on I worked in an intensive care setting with traumatized adolescents.

For years, I was the student of one of the first TM teachers in the U.S. I cared for elderly and severely ill people. Over time I shared a flat with some forty different people from all over the world. I began a psychotherapy training and later stepped away from it. In between - many, many travels.

My first experience of psychotherapy was at fourteen. Since the age of eighteen I have explored a wide range of therapeutic approaches: Schema Therapy, ‘Spiritual’ Psychotherapy (which was traumatizing and crossed many boundaries; but deeply formative), Integrative Gestalt Therapy, Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), and NARM Psychotherapy. At some point my Gestalt therapist pointed out my at times excessive desire to get to the bottom of things. Beneath this lies the underlying structure in how I have always related to the world: I never settle for surface level meaning. I’ve always longed to better understand myself and the world around me, and to cultivate compassion for myself and others, with the former often being the harder one. Over the years, my view of certain psychotherapeutic schools has shifted significantly, and today I see much of the mental health field in a differentiated, critical way.

Through this process, Neurosystemic Integration® (Verena König), trauma-informed work, has become a path that feels deeply aligned for me - one I feel truly grateful for.

My coach for trauma-sensitive accompaniment is also my supervisor. I regard supervision as a deeply binding part of my own work as a trauma-sensitive process companion.

Sessions with me can be held in English, German or Swedish. I understand Norwegian fully, but will probably reply to you in Swedish. I am 39 years old and based in Vienna, Austria.