My Life Journey

As a young child, I was completely fascinated with cameras – how I could witness other peoples moments and memories. I knew I wanted to take pictures of people to tell their stories.

My nursery school report shows I was also a natural storyteller and I loved observing people.

Career Work as a Photographer

Being a very curious person by nature, and also very in touch with my superpower – seeing moments between expressions and body language, I decided to be a wedding and portrait photographer. I wanted to showcase these moments so that my clients could relive their milestones.

For 37 years of my career in South Africa, I photographed around 830 weddings, about 1 450 families and about 150 corporate functions. My clients included some famous people like Dali Tambo and three Presidents – Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa.

Me as a Boudoir Photography Coach

I realized I embodied another superpower – understanding just how may women felt unseen and unsupported in their personal growth. These women craved to be witnessed in their own unique way.

To understand the feminine much better, I completed some wonderful courses by Dr Claire Zammit and her wonderful Women Centred Coaching approach. Combining my skill at feeling what many women were feeling, together with my photographic skills, I photographed over 700 women of all backgrounds and journeys who wanted to showcase their many facets as women.

Many of these women first needed my support to completely shift their identity from self loathing into self loving, from feeling unseen into being fully witnessed, from feeing isolated from their true self into their wholeness.

In 2015, I successfully completed the online Heart IQ program called Relationship Mastery. I started using these proven methods in my relationship coaching practice and helped many couples to process turbulence and disconnect and restore deeper connection and emotional and physical intimacy.

I have successfully supported many Highly Sensitive couples, together and individually, in South Africa and also here in Germany to process challenges in love relationships, find their true selves again and repair connection in the relationship

or where absolutely necessary, supported Highly Sensitive couples to end the relationship in a conscious and loving way, so that both people, and children, can move forward without hurt or resentment.