Author and freelance lecturer. Expert through experience in health care (EX-IN) and empowerment college trainer. Professional management of the meeting places for the association TANDEM e.V. – Soziale Teilhabe Gestalten in Bremervörde. Advisory and conceptual work for the Lower Saxony State Office for Social Affairs, Youth and Family. Member of the board and the expert committee on psychotropic drugs of the German Society for Social Psychiatry (DGSP). Member of the editorial board of the journal Sozialpsychiatrische Informationen (Cologne: Psychiatrie Verlag).