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Hi! My name is Pernille, and I am nuts about science, people and strategic thinking.

These diverse interests have led me to become a neuroscientist with a high publication record, a sought-after research consultant and strategist, a science communicator who writes to all audiences & a mentor who uses evidence-based approaches to help people with mental health challenges grab life by the horns.

Discover more about Pernille

I am not your average consultant, writer, speaker, or mentor. My background is colorful and manifold, continuously crossing land borders, cultures, audiences, clinical diseases, and scientific fields. I am here to offer solutions, perspectives, and strategies.

Please permit me to tell you more about myself.

I am an award-winning neuroscientist and speaker

with over a decade of wet-lab experience resulting in numerous peer-reviewed publications. Read more about how I went rogue as a writer and consultant.

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Pernille has a detail-oriented approach to problem solving with me. She is very good at connecting her academic and career experiences with mine in order to provide insight that I can use.

T.O. 2022

Received professional mentoring for achieving the next steps in their academic and professional career

Pernille was amazing to help me understand the mental aspects of my eating disorder, that it's not just caused by body image, but that it's a complex mental disorder. Pernille was very supportive in my recovery journey and it was crucial that she understood it because she experienced it too. Her expertise is brain function and her willingness to share actually helped me a lot to understand the issue holistically.

A.S. 2021

Receiving life coaching for mental health challenges

Pernille has this incredible ability to make a daunting, often overwhelming task, such as applying for a new job, or editing and creating a resume/cover letter and making the process feel do-able, and not so intimidating. She guides with your wisdom and skill so that you can identify what your strengths are. When you struggle with mental health, these tasks can be very overwhelming.

B.M. 2022

Received a combination of professional mentoring and life coaching to achieve their dreams in the light of the history of mental health challenges

I quickly understood what a life coach can do to enhance work towards full recovery—Pernille challenged me to step outside my comfort zone to work towards creating a supportive community and challenge those eating disorder thoughts that were still hanging on. In addition to her underlying knowledge of neuroscience, Pernille’s wealth of knowledge from her lived experiences makes the idea of full recovery seem possible.

D.B. 2022

Received life coaching for mental health challenges

Pernille is validating about the fear that one feels when beginning something new, or searching for a new job, while at the same time encouraging and challenging you to take that next step. She breaks down the job application process into achievable goals, and gives you feedback to make your materials stand out in the application process.

B.M. 2022

Received a combination of professional mentoring and life coaching to achieve their dreams in the light of the history of mental health challenges

I’m so thankful for her!! I never felt judged working with her, and she was always very compassionate when working with me. I’d recommend her again and again!

B.M. 2022

Received a combination of professional mentoring and life coaching to achieve their dreams in the light of the history of mental health challenges

I have a long record of mentoring people in professional and personal realms.

I use my personal background and scientific training to inform my approach to mentoring and coaching. Read more here.

I offer 6 different services that all focus on research, communication, and mental health. Interested in learning more? Contact me for a free 30 minute consultation.

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Science writing

I offer:

Scientific content writing
Science-based news articles
Opinion articles
Editing and feedback on scientific articles

Research consulting

I help professional researchers

Identify gaps in the mental health literature
Identify needs for intervention
Develop research strategies
Level up their internal knowledge on mental health research

Life coaching

I help people with mental health challenges

Identify their values
Identify their life goals
Create social connections
Find strategies to achieve their goals guided by their values and integrity
Find ways to develop community

Mental Health Workshops

I visit schools and companies in person or virtually to

Give a scientifically-based understanding of what mental health is and what it means to struggle with mental illness
Educate and discuss why people develop mental health challenges
Provide evidence-based insights to the best and newest treatments for mental illnesses
Create structure around how to speak about mental health and mental illness in scientific terms

Professional mentoring

I help people

Create structure in their professional life
Identify their professional goals and timeline
Create kick-ass resumes
Write powerful cover-letters and mission statements
Speak with confidence

All of this, while keeping in mind their circumstances, whether that be mental illness, financial restraints, and/or visa issues.

Speaking

I speak at conferences, events, schools and companies on the topics they want to learn more about.

I speak with

Engagement
Entusiasm
Receptiveness
Wit

While centering my content on the science

Why should we

talk about mental illness?

There is plenty of reasons to talk about mental illness.

It is incredibly debilitating with consequences not just for the affected individual but their family, friends, and the entire society and global economy.

Because

1 in 5 people

in the US suffer from mental illness

See the stats from NIMH

Because suicide is

the 2nd leading cause of death

among people age 10-14 and 25-34 in the US

See the stats from NIMH

Because mental illness cost

over $1 trillion

each year, for the global economy

See the stats in the Lancet

The question is

what will we do about it?

We can take initiatives to

create awareness
educate students, colleagues and families
develop apps to detect mental illness before it aggravates
develop apps to predict when changes in mental state necessitate professional help
create apps and devices to improve mental wellbeing
create communities to bring people together
conduct studies to identify new biomarkers for mental illness
and the list goes on ...

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get started

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Read my articles at Psychology Today that address

How we relate to our bodies

In these articles, I write about how and why we think and feel about our bodies the way we do. I interview people to learn about their lived experience and integrate these with the newest scientific literature.

Go to Psychology Today

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Hi! My name is Pernille, and I am nuts about science, people and strategic thinking.

I am an award-winning neuroscientist and speaker

with over a decade of wet-lab experience resulting in numerous peer-reviewed publications. Read more about how I went rogue as a writer and consultant.