• I have my degree (1996) and PhD (2006) from the University of Oslo, dept. of Psychology and started

      my private practice in 1998

• I grew up in Norway, USA (East coast) and Hong Kong,

      travelling between the ages of 8 and 15 and know quite

      a bit about the special challenges that go along with the

exposure to two or more cultures during the formative

years. There are advantages, such as social flexibility,

tolerance and an enhanced perspective on norms, roles

and standards, and disadvantages such as feelings of

not belonging anywhere and unresolved grief at the loss

of family, friends and familiar environments

• I am an active painter with a four year education from

what is now the Oslo National Academy of the Arts (Khio),

where I studied painting

• My PhD comprises both of my fields, with studies of the

effects on cogniton of working with models in artwork. In

the last 8 years I have lectured at Khio as well as doing a

yearly one-day seminar on how psychology can enhance

and protect the creative process