At the university

• Member of the Faculty Council for Social Work
• Program director of the part-time continuing education master’s degree in Social Work: Clinical Social Work

Outside the university

• Lecturer (for Empirical Research Methods) in the Master’s program in Addiction Support at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne Department and the Addiction Academy Berlin-Brandenburg
• Co-editor of the professional journal Beratung Aktuell (Junfermann Verlag)

• 2014: Licensed as a psychological psychotherapist
• 2011: Appointment as Professor of Psychological Foundations of Social Work and Clinical Social Work at Coburg University of Applied Sciences
• 2006-2011: Counseling and psychotherapeutic work in various fields, including child and youth welfare (Wartenburg-Wittenberg-Bitterfeld Child and Youth Welfare Association, Evangelisches Jugend- und Fürsorgewerk Lazarus gAG), psychiatry (Wedding Day Clinic of the Psychiatric University Clinic of the Charité in St. Hedwig Hospital Berlin) and addiction counseling (Café Beispiellos Berlin – counseling center for gambling addicts and their relatives)
• 2005 – 2006: Research assistant at the Competence Platform for Addiction Research at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences North Rhine-Westphalia, Cologne Department
• 2005: Doctorate (Dr. rer.
  nat.
  at the TU Braunschweig
• 2000 – 2004: Research assistant at the Institute for School Pedagogy and Educational Psychology (Department of Learning and Behavioral Disorders) at the Humboldt University of Berlin
• 1992 – 1999: Studied psychology at the TU Braunschweig