My Approach

I am a licensed counselling psychologist and an advanced certified schema therapist. My approach is grounded in the belief that deep change happens when we engage with our emotional world, connect to our inner truth, and allow ourselves to be fully seen.

For me, the therapeutic relationship is not just a medium — it is part of the method. Through the bond we build healing becomes possible. I use empathic confrontation and limited reparenting not as techniques, but as ways of being — with presence, trust, and respect.

I have experienced the power of this process in my own journey, and I continue to witness profound shifts in my patients every day. Their stories, their breakthroughs, and their quiet moments of relief remind me why I believe in this work so deeply.

I see psychological growth as both a clinical and spiritual process — a path back to wholeness, clarity, and inner peace. I help people return to themselves — so they can live lives that are not just functional, but meaningful, connected, and true.

Who I can help

I support adults (16+) who are seeking more than surface-level solutions — those who long for genuine, lasting change in how they feel, think, and relate. My clients often come to me when other forms of therapy or medical treatment have not provided the depth of healing they desire.

You may benefit from working with me if you are experiencing:

Persistent feelings of emptiness, anxiety, or low mood.
Difficulties in relationships or a sense of disconnection from others.
Self-sabotaging patterns or recurring life challenges that seem hard to change.
A sense of being “stuck” or unable to move forward in life, studies, or career.

How I can help

Schema therapy offers a structured yet deeply soulful framework. It gives voice to early wounds, unmet needs, and coping modes that often live beneath the surface of our adult lives. What moves me most about this method is how powerfully it works — often in just months — where other approaches may fall short. You can’t hide, and that’s exactly why it heals: it invites you to meet yourself with honesty, compassion, and courage.

The way I work is centered on creating a safe, grounded, and attuned therapeutic space. Safety is not just a condition — it’s the foundation of healing. I pay close attention, I listen deeply, and I stay present with you. Such way of connecting is transformative. It offers a new relational experience, often different from what clients have known before — with respect for your unique story.

Together, we:

Identify and transform recurring unhealthy behavioral patterns (coping modes), limiting self-beliefs (schemas) and critical thoughts (internalized parent modes).
Process and heal emotional wounds in a safe, compassionate space.
Build stronger self-awareness, resilience, and healthy boundaries.
Foster a renewed sense of meaning, purpose, and self-acceptance.

During our sessions you will experience both safety and being emphatically confronted — helping you face what is difficult, while offering the care and understanding that makes real change possible.

My aim is to give you hope by helping you to reconnect to your authentic self and create a life that feels meaningful to you.

On a Personal Note

Psychology and I have a complicated relationship… We met when I was 27 and hospitalized after a nervous breakdown. I was put onto a ward with patients who did not want to live but survived their first few attempts. My `operational system’ needed a complete reset in order to keep my managerial position at an international giga-firm in the finance industry after I failed my marriage and managed to break my heart too.

It took me almost a year to feel brave enough to tell my individual therapist that I don’t trust her and never will, so eventually, it was psychodrama and kinesiology that gave my hope back and helped me to find `lost me’. I can say, I was very well introduced to mental health from the sufferers’ side of things…

Only after a few more broken-relationships, betrayals by ‘friends’, discoveries of my shortfalls and another 10 years of constant travelling around the world for work, had I realized that all I was doing was making rich people richer and that my job was not satisfying me even a bit.

At the same time, I found myself into deep conversations with colleagues and friends who then told me how much better they felt as a result of talking to me. That was when I decided to resign and retrain as a psychologist.

By then I was remarried and a mother of 4, twins of our own and two lovely pre-teens back then from my husbands’ previous relationship. So, the plan was to specialize in children and adolescence mental health. That plan was scrapped by my placement with domestically abused children leaving me in tears after each shift. My heart was unable to handle it; I wanted to give up.

Thank to my beloved husband’s encouragement I swapped out my specialization to adults only which decision kept me on the field. Shortly after I read a geniusly and wittingly written article in my mother tongue about how our “schemas” and “modes” `trick and play us’ and I immediately fell in love with Schema Therapy, seeing myself in his story.

Having gone through all the above as a patient and a searching-soul myself, my main priority as a mental health professional is to create a mutually safe and predictable environment during my sessions where trust can be built.

I also make sure that I am the right therapist for you. Shall your case be outside of my competency, I will actively help you to find someone who could support you better.

If I had free time, I’d be doing scuba diving, sky diving, sailing, skiing, snowboarding, horse-riding, cursing on my Harley, attending sacred tours to ancient civilization sites etc., all those I was able to before we had children… I love a good book in my hands and adore those who have already made peace with themselves and inspiring to be around.