About me | Psychologist working with emotional hunger

I’m Franziska – supporting you on your way out of emotional hunger.

From my own experience, I know the immense distress that emotional eating can cause. Today, I support you with my expertise so that your path toward healing can be clearer and more supported than my own once was.

From surviving to living

Let me tell you one thing first: even if you’ve already tried many ways to break free from the cycle of emotional hunger – and nothing has truly helped in the long run – I am living proof that change can be possible.

For 13 years, I struggled with various forms of disordered eating, including anorexia, bulimia, binge eating, and night eating.

For almost as long, I tried to escape this cycle. I went through many different forms of therapy, all of which I am deeply grateful for. Each one helped me move forward in some way – yet lasting change remained out of reach. At some point, I reached a limit where neither my therapists nor I knew how to continue. It was at that point that I decided to take my healing into my own hands.

My healing journey: yoga as my path inward

It would be too simple to say that everything suddenly felt better after my very first yoga class. In reality, it was a long process – one that began with an important realization: that yoga is so much more than the physical practice on the mat. Until then, this hadn’t been clear to me.

Like for many people, my first encounter with yoga was primarily physical. I still remember that class in Bali very vividly and the sense of inner calm that followed. For the first time in a long while, I felt peace. My thoughts were no longer revolving around food, and I wasn’t caught in negative belief patterns.

Gradually, I came to understand that yoga is far more than a physical hobby. It is a way of life – one that can unfold into an entire life path. A path inward, through which I was given the opportunity to get to know myself more fully, step by step, on a holistic level.

And by this, I don’t mean my outer appearance or the roles I had taken on in my life. Rather, I began to understand my needs more clearly – what I truly require, what nourishes me, and what lies at my core. In learning to nourish myself on all levels, I was able to gradually soothe the relentless hunger I had carried for so long.

The foundation of my work: combining scientific insight with spiritual wisdom

This very experience is the foundation of my work today. As a psychologist, someone with lived experience, and a passionate yoga teacher, I combine scientific insight with spiritual wisdom.

One thing is especially important to me: my work is in no way esoteric or pseudo-scientific. Rather, we use yogic teachings as a framework to help you access your authentic self more deeply.

In practical terms, this means gaining increasing clarity about who you are, what your true needs are, and how to relate to the full range of emotions that life brings in a healthy and grounded way – without falling back into familiar patterns of eating and shame.

My realization: I can trust my intuition.

Looking back, I can say that my healing began at the lowest point of my life — when I dared to listen to my inner voice. That voice told me that I needed to choose a different path. It led me to yoga, and it was also the voice that whispered to me that there was more within me – something beyond my thoughts.

At first, trusting this intuition was incredibly difficult for me. And yet, I now know that it was the only way for me to bring light into my darkness.

Today, I live this path with authenticity and deep conviction. A central part of this is my work with clients. Since 2016, I have been working as a psychologist in this field and have supported many people on their way out of emotional hunger.

This work is my truth. It is my life path, one I never had to search for, and it has now taken form as my heart project emotionalerhunger.de.

I deeply understand the suffering that comes with emotional hunger. My wish is to support my clients in reconnecting with peace – peace of mind, peace with their bodies, and peace with themselves.

Shall we walk this path together?