The work is personal.
That's the point.
I'm a licensed therapist and former Division I and professional athlete — but that's not what makes this
work different.
What makes it different is that I've lived on both sides. The high performance and the collapse underneath
it. The rebuilding. The slow, honest work of becoming someone who doesn't need the achievement to feel
okay.
That's what I bring into every session.
Selected Experience
USA Junior National Team
World Champion, 2013
University of Southern California
Division I NCAA Champion · Team Captain, 2015
Professional Athlete
Australia · Germany · New Zealand · Brazil · France
------My Story
High performance was my survival strategy.
Then it stopped working.
I was born in California to two immigrant parents, my mother from Germany, my father from New Zealand. I grew up between cultures, never quite belonging in either direction. At 13, my father died suddenly. Grief, instability, and survival mode took over.
Water polo became my anchor. Perfectionism became my strategy. If I could control my performance, my grades, my output; maybe I could hold everything together. That drive earned me a full Division I scholarship to USC, a World Championship, and a professional career across five countries.
But perfectionism has a cost. The anxiety, the self-doubt, the quiet voice that says it is never enough. That followed me everywhere. A demanding environment at USC cracked the foundation I had built my identity on. My twenties were marked by loss, meaningful self-examination, and eventually the slow, honest work of rebuilding, not from the outside in, but from the inside out.
"I did not heal by achieving more. I healed by learning how to stop running from myself."
I began building a more grounded relationship with myself — not just professionally, but in how I show up for the people I love and in the quiet moments that don't make it onto a résumé. That work is ongoing. It is also the most important thing I have ever done.
Today I run my own practice and I am a mother. The drive did not disappear, it evolved. I have learned to notice the signals earlier, to respond before exhaustion becomes the only thing loud enough to get my attention. I have built the internal foundation that allows me to pursue what matters; my work, my family, my freedom; with more intention and less cost. That way of living is not something I have perfected. It is something I practice. And it is exactly what I help my clients build.
------My Approach
Most spaces treat the mind or the body.
This work integrates both.
I began building a more grounded relationship with myself, not just professionally, but in how I show up for the people I love and in the quiet moments that don't make it onto a résumé. That work is ongoing. It is also the most important thing I have ever done.Performance environments often overlook the nervous system entirely. Traditional clinical settings are rarely structured for the pace and complexity that high-achieving individuals carry. This work sits at that intersection, because sustainable performance requires more than strategy. It requires a regulated nervous system, a grounded sense of identity, and the capacity to lead yourself with clarity and care.
01
EMDR & SOMATIC EXPERIENCING
Processing difficult experiences at the level of the body — not just the narrative constructed around them.
02
NERVOUS SYSTEM REGULATION
Building genuine capacity to move through pressure and intensity without losing clarity, groundedness, or self.
03
PERFORMANCE PSYCHOLOGY
Developing a more internally grounded relationship to performance — one that is sustainable, embodied, and self-directed.
04
ATTACHMENT & RELATIONAL WORK
Examining how early relational patterns shape the way you lead, connect, and relate to yourself under pressure.
Eike has helped me feel genuinely understood, she has given me the ability to understand myself in clear, digestible, and applicable way. It has been remarkable how she holds space while also helping you constructively move through life.
--- J.D (Former Client)
------My Approach
Education & Training
Education:
University of Southern California
MSW, Clinical Social Work — Adult Mental Health
BA, Sociology
Clinical Training
EMDR Basic + Intermediate Training
Somatic Experiencing Year 1 & 2
EMDR Advanced Trainings:
R-TEP & G-TEP Trauma Training
Flash Technique
Psychological First Aid
Motivational Interviewing
Usui Reiki Level I & II
Licensure:
LCSW — Licensed in California
Board of Behavioral Sciences
Athletics:
USA Junior National World Champion, 2013
Division I NCAA Champion
USC Women's Water Polo — Captain, 2015
Professional Athlete — Australia, Germany,
New Zealand, Brazil, France