Our Team
The practice Lernmuster was founded in 2013 by Dr. phil. Imke von Wolffradt.
Through her many years of experience as a teacher at various universities as well as in the field of learning support, she and her team have accumulated a wealth of experience regarding the different needs, learning types and support mechanisms, which is constantly deepened and expanded in the course of daily application.
This basis enables us to quickly analyze the needs and demands, which we -with an individually designed learning concept and specialized personnel- also digitally – transform into learning successes.
Our professional staff
Behind Lernmuster is an interdisciplinary team of experienced educators, psychologists, and diagnosticians who are committed to the educational paths of children and adolescents with expertise, empathy, and dedication. We work solution-oriented, respectfully, and always with a focus on the individual needs of each person. Ongoing professional development and the use of scientifically proven methods are a matter of course for us.
We support families with trust and care on their journey toward greater learning success and educational inclusion.
Contact us for personalized and confidential guidance.
An interdisciplinary team:
- University tutors
- secondary school teachers
- student teachers
- and other specialized personnel
Dr. phil. Imke von Wolffradt - Founder and managing director
Dr. Imke von Wolffradt is founder and managing director of Lernmuster GmbH.
After graduating from high school in Ireland, she first studied to become a teacher at the University of Flensburg from 2001 to 2004 (degree: state examination) and then studied educational science, specialising in psychology, from 2005 to 2009 (degree: Diplom). Besides her studies in Flensburg she worked from 2001-2009 as a learning therapist in the practice for Integrative Learning and Family Therapy of Dr. Susanne Steinert with a focus on dyslexia, dyscalculia, AD(H)S, development of learning strategies. From 2009, Dr. von Wolffradt was a research assistant and doctoral student at the University of Hamburg in the Department of Educational Sciences with a focus on Empirical Educational Research – International Educational Monitoring and Educational Reporting
General, Intercultural and International Comparative Educational Science as well as Educational Psychology. After completing her doctorate, she founded the practice Lernmuster in 2013. At the same time, she was a lecturer in psychology at the Fresenius University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, until 2016, and a lecturer in educational science at the University of Hamburg, where she taught school education and psychology.
Dr. von Wolffradt now gives consultation to German as well as International Schools and Universities in the area of compensation for disadvantages. She is also an expert for children growing up bilingually, who often fall outside the standardisation sample. Since 2018, she has also been offering testing in her practice from the Anglo-Saxon area.
Karin Femers - Header of systemic counseling department
Karin Femers heads the systemic counseling department at Lernmuster GmbH, focusing on the following areas:
- School career counseling
- Parental counseling for educational issues
- Dealing with learning difficulties
- Structuring learning in preparation for class tests/exams
- After graduating from high school in Bremen, Karin Femers studied mathematics and sport in Bonn. After her first state examination, she completed her teacher training in Krefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia, where she successfully passed her second state examination.
- Following her training, she became the mother of 4 children and became intensively involved with various educational concepts. In 1998, for example, she founded a forest kindergarten in Kronberg im Taunus and ran it for several years.
- In 2005, she became honorary chairwoman of the “Learning with Music” parents‘ association at Heilwigstraße grammar school for two years and helped to introduce wind classes in years 5 and 6.
- For the last 20 years, she has worked at the Grund- und Stadtteilschule Eppendorf.
She worked at the Grund- und Stadtteilschule Eppendorf. - At the primary and secondary school in Eppendorf, she was initially a teacher for mathematics, German and sport and then completed the counselor training (systemic counseling) and also worked in the school’s counseling service for seven years. For the last ten years before her retirement, she worked in school management and was responsible for years 5-7 as head of department. The transition from primary to secondary school was therefore her daily business, as was dealing with the challenges and support of the very
M. Sc.-Psych. Carina Wirtz - Psychological Psychotherapist
After graduating from high school, Ms. Carina Wirtz began her studies in psychology at psychology studies at the Medical School Hamburg. Already during her already gained her first practical experience in psychological counseling and psychological counseling and diagnostics through her work at learning patterns. She then completed her Master’s degree with a focus on clinical psychology and psychotherapy at MSH. This enabled her to valuable experience in psychodynamic traumatology in children and adolescents with children and adolescents in the psychiatric-psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic outpatient clinic at the UKE.
At the end of 2019, Carina Wirtz began her further training as a psychological psychotherapist in the guideline procedure of depth psychology-based psychotherapy in order to further deepen her therapeutic skills (degree deepen (degree: state examination). In the following years she worked as a ward psychologist in a full inpatient facility for psychiatry, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics as well as in the psychotherapeutic outpatient clinic at the HafenCity Institute for Psychotherapy. At the same time she took over the specialist management of psychological diagnostics at the the Lernmuster practice. During this time, she acquired extensive experience and knowledge in the diagnosis, counseling and treatment of different psychological disorders.
In 2023, Carina Wirtz received her license to practice as a psychological psychotherapist, which authorizes her to practice and bill for outpatient psychotherapy. outpatient psychotherapy. Since then, she has been a licensed Psychological psychotherapist for adults in her own practice. practice.
Our Team