About me
Born into a German-Indian family and raised in Germany, India and the US, I learned to navigate different cultures at an early age.
As a cross-cultural and cross-border family mediator, I specialize in helping parents navigate the complexities of co-parenting across borders. My goal is to support parents in finding sustainable agreements that prioritize the child’s need for connection to both parents.
As a family mentor with personal experience of parental child abduction, I am dedicated to helping parents with the emotional and practical aspects of abduction and reunion.
Inspired by my personal experiences and grounded in my extensive professional training in mediation and trauma recovery I bring to my work, expertise, empathy and compassion.
Before I turned my focus to families I worked as a project manager for German Films for nearly two decades building bridges between the German film industry and film professionals in many parts of the world.
Qualifications
Professional Training in Mediation and Trauma Recovery
- Intercultural Business Trainer/Moderator Qualification (assist International HR, 2018)
- Transformative Mediator Qualification (Christian Hartwig/Institute for Transformative Mediation and Conflict Transformation, 2019)
- Cross-Border-Family-Mediator Qualification (MiKK e. V., 2020)
- Trauma Recovery Coach Qualification (International Association of Trauma Recovery Coaches, 2022)
Online Certification Courses
- Comprehensive Interpersonal Neurobiology Course (Daniel Siegel/Mindsight Institute, 2023)
- Traumatic Stress Studies Certificate Program (Bessel van der Kolk/Trauma Research Foundation, 2024)
Academic Education
- Certified Translator French (SDI Munich, 1988)
- M.A. in Contemporary History and Romance Studies (LMU Munich, 1994)