Christoph studied medicine, philosophy, art history and comparative literature in Kiel, Vienna and Berlin.
As a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, he worked as a DBT trainer and since 2008 as Schema Therapist, Schema Therapy and Group Schema Therapy trainer and supervisor (ISST).
He is the founder and leader of the “Schema Therapy Institute East Switzerland” and president of the Swiss Schema Therapy Network.
International presentations and trainings, leader of the Schema Therapy certification training programs in Palestine (since 2018), Egypt (since 2020) and Tunisia (since 2022).
His major regions of interest are psychotherapy and cultural sciences, current developments in psychotherapy (especially in trauma therapy) and Schema Therapy in Arab countries.
He lives and works in Winterthur/Switzerland