Background & training
About me
Therapy asks for trust, and trust should have something solid under it. My practice is grounded in psychological education, long-term psychotherapeutic training, supervised psychotherapeutic experience, and ongoing professional learning
Education
Master's degree in Psychology
Comenius University, Bratislava.
Psychodynamic psychotherapy training
Long-term 1700+ hour training at the Slovak Institute of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, including theory, self-experience, supervision, supervised practice, and clinical placement.
Training in psychotraumatology and EMDR
EMDR Level I & II training at the Czech Institute for Psychotraumatology and EMDR (ČIPE).
European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP)
European Association for Psychotherapy.
Experience
Private practice
Individual psychotherapy with adults and older adolescents, focused on trauma, attachment, emotional regulation, relational patterns, identity, and the ways earlier experiences can shape present life.
Community counsellor / school psychologist
Psychological support for an international high-school community, including counselling, psychotherapy, assessment, crisis response, parent and teacher consultation, and wellbeing education.
Workplace mental health support
Short-term psychological support, crisis intervention, stress and burnout support, and consultation around workplace mental health through an Employee Assistance Programme.
Professional memberships
- Registered psychotherapist, Slovak Psychotherapeutic Society (SPS)
- Member, Slovak Institute for Psychotraumatology and EMDR (SIPE)
- Member, Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA)
- Member, Professional Association for Transgender Health South Africa (PATHSA)