Individual psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy offers a space to gain a deeper understanding of yourself, your emotions, and the ways in which you form relationships with others. I work with people experiencing anxiety and depressive symptoms, life crises, and relationship difficulties, as well as those living with personality disorders and other mental health conditions. Together, we seek to understand the underlying sources of current difficulties and identify the mechanisms that shape how you experience yourself, other people, and the world. The therapeutic process helps you gradually recognise these patterns and develop more flexible ways of relating to yourself, managing your emotions, and navigating relationships. The aim of therapy is not only to reduce symptoms but also to foster lasting change and improve your quality of life.
Couples psychotherapy
Couples psychotherapy helps partners better understand the dynamics of their relationship and discover new ways of communicating and managing conflict. I work with couples experiencing crises, loss of intimacy, communication difficulties, infidelity, parenting-related challenges, and other difficulties that may arise at different stages of a relationship. Together, we explore recurring patterns of interaction and the needs, emotions, and fears underlying each partner’s behaviour. Therapy can help interrupt entrenched cycles of conflict, restore the capacity for dialogue, and create space for a closer and more fulfilling relationship.
Family psychotherapy
Family psychotherapy supports families in developing a better understanding of their relationships, improving communication, and resolving conflict. I work with families experiencing parenting difficulties, developmental crises, and changes that affect the functioning of the family as a whole. Together, we explore how each person’s needs, emotions, and behaviours affect other family members. Therapy helps families recognise and change established patterns of interaction, rebuild mutual understanding, and create relationships that foster development and a sense of security.
Perinatal psychotherapy
Pregnancy, childbirth, and the first months of a child’s life involve profound emotional and relational changes. I offer psychotherapeutic support to women and parents experiencing perinatal depression and anxiety, postpartum psychosis, traumatic childbirth, infertility, pregnancy or infant loss, and difficulties adjusting to their new role. Together, we explore the emotions and experiences associated with parenthood and how they affect individual well-being, the couple’s relationship, and the bond with the child. In cases involving severe mental health conditions, including postpartum psychosis, psychotherapy forms part of comprehensive treatment provided in collaboration with a psychiatrist.
Mother – Infant psychotherapy
The first months of a child’s life are particularly important for developing a secure attachment. Parent–infant psychotherapy supports this relationship by helping parents better understand their baby’s needs and their own emotions. I work with families following a difficult or traumatic birth, those experiencing perinatal depression or anxiety, and those facing other circumstances that make it difficult to bond with their baby. Together, we explore the parent’s and infant’s responses to one another and consider what may be disrupting their contact and communication. Therapy helps parents become more attuned to their baby’s cues, strengthen their sense of parental competence, and create conditions that support the development of a secure relationship.
Child and Adolescent psychotherapy
Child and adolescent psychotherapy helps identify the underlying causes of emotional, relational, and developmental difficulties and supports young people in coping with them. I work with children and adolescents experiencing anxiety, low mood, relationship problems, adjustment difficulties, and developmental crises, among other concerns. Therapy is tailored to the young person’s age, individual needs, and way of communicating. Collaboration with parents or caregivers is an important part of the process, helping them better understand the child’s needs and support the changes taking place.
My approach:
Everyone carries their own story - the experiences, relationships, and ways of coping with difficulties that shape how they experience themselves and the world. The symptoms that bring people to therapy, such as anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, recurring crises, or a sense of inner tension, rarely arise by chance. They often represent attempts to adapt to experiences that, for a long time, have remained misunderstood or impossible to express.
In my work, I focus not only on what is happening in a person’s life, but also on why they experience it in this particular way. I am interested in the meaning of symptoms, how they relate to life history and relationships, and the unconscious patterns that shape how a person experiences themselves and others. I also seek to understand how a person’s difficulties emerge in their current relationships, decisions, and ways of responding. Lasting change becomes possible when symptoms are no longer seen solely as problems to be eliminated, but also as a path towards a deeper understanding of one’s inner world.
My work is grounded in psychodynamic psychotherapy, which recognises that past experiences - particularly those involving our most significant relationships - continue to influence how we function in adulthood. Within the therapeutic relationship, it becomes possible to gradually recognise these patterns, understand one’s emotions more fully, and develop greater freedom in experiencing oneself and building fulfilling relationships. This process can not only alleviate current distress but also lead to broader changes in how a person functions across different areas of life.
At the same time, I draw on contemporary knowledge of attachment theory, mentalizing, and research into personality organisation. Depending on each person’s needs, I integrate elements of Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), and Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP). This enables me to adapt my way of working flexibly to individual needs while maintaining a coherent psychodynamic understanding of the therapeutic process.
Working with relationships holds a particularly important place in my practice. This includes couples and family psychotherapy, as well as work with the relationship between parent and child from the earliest months of life through adolescence. I understand psychological development as a process that takes place in relationship with another person. For this reason, I regard attentiveness to emotional bonds and attachment, as well as the capacity to understand one’s own and others’ mental states, as central elements of effective psychotherapy.
I regularly discuss my clinical work in supervision and continually develop my professional competencies through training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, Transference-Focused Psychotherapy (TFP), Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT), Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP), couples psychotherapy, and psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapy. This allows me to practise in accordance with current clinical knowledge and the highest ethical standards.