Hello
I am Marianne, a German psychologist with 38 years of professional experience in the field of Chronic Pain and many years of lived experience with my own pain. Currently, I live in Morecambe and am working on a community based self-help model.
My Background
Until I moved to England in 2020, my main work was running interdisciplinary pain programs based in the Black Forest in the south of Germany. Over the last 15 years, those programs were increasingly based on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and using the ACT Matrix in a group setting.
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My interest in community programs started in 2017 when I co-developed a program called Schritt ins Leben which was piloted in 2 German cities and has since developed into a recognised self-help model in Germany. Currently, I am taking this further, working with Mark Webster, to create a practical community-based self-help skills approach in our local area. It's early days, but the foundations are in place.