As an Essential Psychotherapy Institute trainee I bring together psychological assessment with body – oriented therapy and existential dimension. You can learn more about the methodologies here.
Essential psychotherapy uses self-awareness as a transformative tool, guiding the discovery of one’s True Self beyond conditioned patterns. It is not about “fixing” or changing beliefs, but about reconnecting with the innate qualities that may, for various reasons, be blocked or unconscious.
I work under supervision and continue to deepen my own process through ongoing training.
Therapy
Therapy can take the form of an open session and/or an Inner Child session. Regardless of the format, the focus is on exploring how early relationships shaped the foundations of a person’s inner world. Many of the challenges that appear in adult life are echoes of these early patterns. By looking at where these struggles began, therapy supports deeper, more lasting change rather than simply managing symptoms on the surface.
What is Inner Child?
The inner child is the place inside of us where we have been wounded from very early on in our lives and we have remained childlike and regressed. These wounded areas correspond to the periods in our childhood in which we experienced trauma, leaving us with issues such as blockages, shock, phobias, fixations, depression and obsessions/compulsions. The presence of the unhealed hurt makes it impossible for us to access the necessary Essential structures that would enable us to blossom and grow.
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More details on therapeutic roots of the approach
This integrative approach is grounded in Alexander Lowen’s body-oriented psychotherapy and psychodynamic theory, drawing from Object Relations (Fairbairn, Celani) and Self Psychology (Kohut). It also incorporates Inner Child work inspired by John Bradshaw.
The approach is further informed by Attachment Theory of relating (Bowlby), developmental psychology (Mahler), and systemic perspectives on family dynamics (Satir).
More on working methods
Within the therapeutic process, awareness work plays central role, supported by psychoeducation and the facilitation of emotional expression. These elements are complemented by methods such as visualization, Voice Dialogue (H. and S. Stone), and approaches drawn from Gestalt therapy and psychodrama.
Body-oriented techniques—including bioenergetic exercises inspired by Alexander Lowen, TRE (Tension and Trauma Release Exercises), and specific breathing practices—help activate and integrate physical experience.
Active meditations also form an integral part of the therapeutic process.
Specialisation
Support for challenges such as burn out, stress related symptoms, work – life imbalance, anxiety, loss of meaning in life and resignation (depression).
Also addressing relational difficulties, psychosomatic symptoms and the wish for authentic and integrated life.