About me

How do we better understand people so we can act more wisely?

I work with what often lies beneath the surface: stress, trauma, grief, burden, nervous system, relationships, culture, learning, power, misunderstandings, and the frameworks people live within. I am concerned with both the individual person and the systems that surround them: the family, the school, psychiatry, the municipality, the workplace, the organization, the church, civil society, and the political reality.

I am the founder of the Psychological Resource Center, where for many years the work has been close to people in practice: assessment, treatment, teaching, supervision, conversations, programs, and the development of concrete tools.

I have developed Systemizer and SPQ 2.0 – Systemizer Profile Questionnaire, because I lacked a more precise language for how people think, sense, shift attention, use energy, communicate, and navigate socially. Systemizer is not about putting people in boxes. It is about creating a better language for diversity, function, and patterns.

For many years, I have worked with CAT-kit and KAT-kassen, which have been very significant for my way of working with conversations, emotions, thoughts, bodily signals, and self-understanding. I appreciate concrete and visual methods because they can help people show what they cannot always explain in words.

I have developed RESET, a practice-oriented material about stress, trauma, the nervous system, and regulation. RESET is created for reality: for children, young people, adults, professionals, families, and organizations that need concrete tools that can be used when the burden is high. It is about understanding the nervous system and providing people with simple ways to regulate themselves and each other.

Through Mission10forty, I work with international humanitarian and trauma-related professional work, among other things, in areas characterized by war, persecution, flight, and extreme strain. Here, my work is not just about therapy or education. It is also about hope, prevention, responsibility, community, and providing professionals and local resources with concrete tools they can pass on.

My work has taken me from Denmark to Ukraine, Armenia, Iraq, Singapore, and New York, among other places. Sometimes I teach professionals at conferences and educational programs. Other times, I am in more vulnerable contexts where children, families, and local communities live with the consequences of war, trauma, persecution, or long-term strain.

For me, these levels are interconnected. A child’s nervous system is connected to the family. The family is connected to the school, the municipality, and the culture. The culture is connected to history. And history is connected to the choices that society and leaders make. Therefore, one cannot always limit oneself to looking at the individual. One must also look at the frameworks surrounding the person.

My approach is non-authoritarian but not unclear. I do not like power for power’s sake, and I ask questions when children, young people, families, or vulnerable groups are made the problem without anyone properly investigating the context. At the same time, I am clear when something is important. Especially when it comes to dignity, justice, and responsibility.

I think in systems. I see patterns, connections, and deficiencies. I can immerse myself for a long time in a model, a questionnaire, a case, a translation, a method, an illustration, or a formulation, until it becomes more precise and useful. I do not do it to oversimplify people. I do it to create tools that can be used in practice.