About me

Lead yourself.

That’s the principle behind everything I do.

I spent a decade in high-stakes hospital environments, managing critical care, making decisions under pressure, and mentoring clinicians. I was used to responsibility and intensity, and to being someone others relied on. Over time, I stretched beyond my own limits. I took on too much. Put my own capacity to the side. I left clinical practice and began my PhD at Karolinska Institutet, hoping to improve patient care. Early on, I noticed familiar patterns in academia… People who care deeply, who take on a lot and who keep going, often at their own expense. I recognized myself in that. That’s where my work began to shift. During the second year of my PhD, I started developing a different way of working, one that allows for self-led sustainable performance.

That became the Play & Produce Program.

Since then, I’ve worked with more than 80 researchers from 16 countries.

Credentials

PhD in Medical Science, Karolinska Institutet.Dissertation: Assessment and Identification of Cognitive Changes After Surgery in Older Adults.

Master of Medical Science: Nurse Anesthesia, KarolinskaInstitutet.

Training in cognitive behavioral therapy:

Psychotherapist training in cognitive behavioral therapy (ongoing). SIEP (Scandinavian Academy for Evidence-Based Psychotherapy), under the direction of Professor JoAnne Dahl.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, course. Högskolan SAPU (Scandinavian academy for psychotherapy). Taught by Lina Strömberg, licensed psychotherapist.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy courses with Dr Russ Harris.