Elisa E. Meyer is a cuddle therapist from Leipzig, Germany. She was born in Luxembourg in 1986. She studied German language and literature and philosophy in Freiburg, after which she completed her doctorate in Vienna on the work of Robert Musil and the topic of corporeal identity. As the child of two therapists, she began exploring her own therapeutic path at an early age. She works with Reiki, family constellation, bodywork and recently with biodynamic body therapy after Boyesen. Since 2015 she has been exploring cuddle therapy in theory and practice. In 2018 she founded the company Die Kuschel Kiste or Cuddle Chest in English.