About
I am Rosemarie — a psychologist, researcher, and solution-focused coach. I work with people in the middle of transitions: the kind you see coming, and the kind you do not.
I have spent years studying the psychology of how people relate to themselves under pressure: how self-doubt takes hold, how feedback shapes identity, how people find their footing again after something shifts. That research, and the practice it informed, is where my work begins.
I also know transitions from the inside. I have navigated relocation, built a life between cultures, become a mother — including carrying the loss of a child — and kept finding my way through all of it. I do not think that makes me an expert on your experience. But it does mean I understand something about what it takes to keep moving forward when things are hard, uncertain, or not what you expected.
That is the space I work in. Thinking alongside you, with rigour and care — towards what matters most to you.
Background
I trained as a psychologist in Germany, graduating from Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz before completing my doctorate at TU Darmstadt. My doctoral research focused on feedback and appreciation at work — how recognition shapes motivation, identity, and performance. That interest in how people experience themselves at work led to my postdoctoral research on the impostor phenomenon: why capable, accomplished people so often feel like they do not belong, and what actually helps. It is research that sits close to the work I do every day. If you have ever felt that your achievements do not quite belong to you, this is likely familiar territory.
Alongside my academic background, I hold a license as an alternative practitioner for psychotherapy in Germany and am a certified solution-focused coach through the Solutions Academy. I also work as a mentor.
I work online, in English, German, and Dutch.
How I work
My approach is solution-focused and resource-oriented. That means we spend more time on what is already working, what you already know, and where you want to go than on cataloguing what is wrong.
Sessions are focuse and reflective. I bring psychological knowledge and research into the room, but the expertise on your own life is always yours. My role is to ask useful questions, offer a different perspective when it helps, and support you in finding a way forward that actually fits.
I work with adults navigating personal and professional transitions, online, typically over a series of sessions tailored to what you need.
Ready to talk?
A free initial conversation is the easiest way to explore whether working together might help. There is no obligation and no expectation — just a space to talk about what you are navigating and what you are hoping for.
