Practice for
Psychotraumatology

Old school medicine for logical thinking, taught by a sturdy generation of medical Professors, was my professional upbringing as an Internist in Basel and Davos. Clinical success and reproducibility remain the guidelines in my medicine, both for conventional and complementary methods.

In Chinese medicine I had the privilege of learning from two masters after my basic training in Beijing – Prof. Ming Qing Zhu in San Jose, the Developer of Scalp Acupuncture, and Dr. Richard Tan, the Developer of Balanced Acupuncture, in San Diego. Both taught acupuncture far beyond any textbook methods.

In the trauma field Dr. Peter Levine remains a «Beacon of Light»; I was grateful to have learned Somatic Expereincing from him personally, along with Steve Hoskinson, his longtime student.  In the face of exploding numbers of methods, Peter Levine’s basic premises remain steadfast: a compassionate approach, neurobiologically based and body oriented. The integration of Prof. Stephen Porge’s Polyvagal Theory, from whom I was also privileged to learn, into most Today’s trauma practices is one of their legacies.

In the Advanced Studies Master training for Pschotraumatology at the University of Zurich (2007 to 2009) we had the opportunity to be trained by the inventors and leading experts in their fields, Prof. Luise Reddemann (PITT), Prof. Berthold Gersons (BEPP), Prof. Edna Foa (PE), Prof. Patricia Resick (CPT), Dr. Arne Hoffmann (EMDR) and Prof. Thomas Elbert & Maggie Schauer (NET).

My training as a certified Ego State therapist and as a Hypnotherapist SMSH opened new therapeutic worlds as well. Dr. Woltemade Hartman (Pretoria) and Kai Fritsche (Berlin) were role models to me in their application of these methods.

Visits in Oakland CA (Alison Miller, Wendy Hoffman) served my quest for knowledge and skills while treating victims of RA. 

Elbert Njienhuis’ Trinity principle and its foundation, structural dissociation, opened another door for the treatment of highly dissociative patients.