Experience • Milieu therapist via Omhu bemanning at Aberia institutions, Rogaland, 2024–2026 • Freelance since 2018 – institution work, writing (the memoir The Glass Onion; contributor to anthologies including Management in Times of War (2024, a bestseller), The Great Awakening: Primordial Soup for the Soul (2025) and Bullied: How I got by) and music • Milieu therapist, Aleris Ungplan & BOI, 2016–2018 – including a care centre for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers, mental health, drug rehabilitation, emergency child welfare and the Aleris emergency response team • Administrative leader, Hvite Ørn Norge – a rights organisation for people in mental health care, 2015–2016 • Private milieu therapist/teacher for a child with atypical autism, in cooperation with Tanum skole, 2012–2014 – with my dog Cooper as co-therapist • Teacher, Unikum AS (Kirkens Bymisjon and the City of Oslo), 2009–2010 • Child welfare caseworker, Lørenskog Child Welfare Service, 2008–2009 • Milieu worker, Stiftelsen Motivasjonskollektivet, 2007–2008 • Designer and first employee, Eurobate ASA, 2000–2005 • Milieu worker in autism and disability care (Skedsmo kommune, Sagtun boliger), 1983–1994 – starting at the age of 17 • Freelance musician since 1983 • Volunteer: founder of the Facebook group «Spør en barnevernpedagog» (since 2011); chair of WSO – We Shall Overcome; vice president of Mensa Norway
Diplomas and recognitions
