I am a Berlin-based qualified Transformational, Existential, and Group Coach with an international legal career in the defense of human rights.
An accredited coach
My diploma and certificates are accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF), the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC), and the Association for Coaching (ADCT).
I completed a professional course on Positive Neuroplasticity with Dr. Rick Hanson and a nine-months Healing Trauma Program with Dr. Jeffrey Rutstein with teachers such as Dr. Sara Kin, Dr. Gabor Maté, or Dr. Deb Dana.
A career in the defense of human rights
Creating change has long been the driving force in my work. Trained in law in France, the UK and Canada, I have worked since 2004 for non-governmental organizations on numerous legal cases focusing on holding powerful actors – governments and multinational corporations – to account for torture, war crimes and different forms of social injustice.
I have organized and collaborated with human rights defenders and activists from around the world and conducted advocacy for years before the United Nations Security Council and General Assembly. I have profound admiration for the commitment of human rights defenders who stand against forces that may appear stronger than them, and who do so against all odds.
Since 2011, I work for the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin as a Senior Legal Advisor, where I also manage a training program for international human rights lawyers and legal activists – seeking to create spaces for critical, postcolonial, feminist, anti-racist and intersectional perspectives on law, on human rights work, on economic structures and political systems.
I previously worked for seven years at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York mostly seeking criminal accountability of US administration officials for torture in the so-called “war on terror”. I represented the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) before the United Nations there in these years.
My turn towards coaching
My formal turn towards coaching starting in 2019 and was a natural next step. It has been my way to reconcile my desire to accompany individuals at a deeper, personal level, in addition to working on systemic injustice. I care about solving conflicts at a microlevel, as well as using my experiences to facilitate organizational development that is critical and radical where needed.
More on who I am
Originally from France, by the time I decided to move to New York at 23, it was already my 17th home. After seven years in New York, I moved to Berlin, where I still live today.
All of these moves have opened my heart and my mind to differences and fluidity – around me and with regard to my own self.
I have learned and grown immensely through over a decade of parenting two children.
My main languages are English and French, and I understand German.
