Work and education

My basic education is Licentiate of Medicine (Gothenburg 1994) and Specialist Degree in Psychiatry (Helsinki 2002).

After graduation I worked two years as a pre – licence physician in different clinics in Gothenburg which is equivalent to the one year orienting phase in Finland. After that I worked for a while in the neurological ward in the University Hospital of Gothenburg. The whole specialising in psychiatry I did in Helsinki. This included participation in lectures and about five years of work in the domain of psychiatry; in the University Hospital ward, in the communal closed ward, in the emergency duty, in the open ward and in the outpatient clinic. I deviated from this customary way by working my last year of specialising in the Rehabilitation Centrum for Torture Survivors under the umbrella of Deaconess Foundation. I became a licenced psychiatrist in 2002 and after that I have had my own therapy practice. 2003-2004 I worked additionally as a crisis worker in the Crisis Centrum for Youth (Nuorten Kriisipiste). I received my basic training in EMDR in 2004 and have practiced it ever since.

I became an EMDR-Europe accredited EMDR – therapist 2016.

Already as a young medical student, as a pre – licence physician and especially as a specialising psychiatrist, I gravitated towards psychotherapy and participated in all possible lectures in the subject. In the end of my specialising in psychiatry and after graduation I have specifically gravitated towards trauma and EMDR therapy.