Trauma & Critical Care

Biography

Dr. Claudia M. Elsig has over more than 20 years experience in the area of psychiatric and psychotherapeutic medicine. She studied at the medical faculty of the Zurich University and after this completed an extensive and deepened training in various evidence-based psychotherapeutic methods. She specialised on psycho-traumatology. Out of a deep interest for the effects of psychological and physical traumas like post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, eating disorders, the whish in her grew to help those people individually, holistic and sustaining. On the way to a multi-specialist she looked for the best mentors in Europe for behavioural therapy, hypnosis and EMDR. She passed through training in genetics and genetic consultation with the focus on addiction, depression and anxiety disorders and discovered the fascination of epigenetics. For years she managed the special consultation for clinical hypnosis at a private clinic in Zurich. During the past years as a medical director and manager of the psychiatry department in an international practice she deepened her knowledge on multiple types of addiction and their effects. In 2004 she founded the Calda AG and developed an individual integrative treatment concept for psychological diseases. Today, she is the manager of the Calda Clinic for in-patient clients at Lake Zurich and an outpatient, psychiatric-psychotherapeutic practice in Zollikon. Furthermore, she is a demanded referee and trainer.

Research Interest

Domestic Violence,Psychological and physical traumas, Post-traumatic stress disorder.