MY PATH TO YOU

I worked with teenagers and young adults – drug users, sex workers – together with community member including social workers, psychologists, police and even priests. I loved this work, and it prompted me to get a MSc degree in Global Health Science. For several years, I worked with the best activists and advisors – people who shared the same passion as me.

We worked in diverse communities but we shared common desire to be heard, to be seen, to feel cared for, and to have freedom of choice for every person who needed help. Relationship became my primary interests.

Working with drug using couples highlighted the missing components in personality development process that caused suffering: not enough love, care, and freedom of choice. I wondered: were we missing something? Could social support programme ever address these important aspects of human life?’

I wanted to understand the intangible and expansive aspects like happiness, love and support, specifically for woman and so studied psychotherapy, which lead me in a completely new direction. I was amazed with how often I was trapped inside my mind to follow steps indicated to me by the others, all those do’s, dont’s and how-to’s. I became aware that playing by those rules was depleting my  life force.

Culture of achievements brings successful careers but takes away freedom of actually experiencing life, feeling pleasure and love. I started my practice to help people strip down those rules from them, and see what leverage it gives to their lives. I was fascinated how this could be seen through the body in a posture and gesture. I started learning meaning of the body in psychotherapy. I realized that some of the answer you can get only through the body, your home for this life.

I enjoy working with people through words and bodies. I enjoy explaining the mysteries of the human condition in simple words. I like to help as much people as I can feel understood, confront their joys and pains, and be motivated to change. This is what inspires me and gives me a purpose to live and create.

In 2016, I moved to South Africa and continued my work here. Going back to the multicultural and multi-language society reminded me again to stay curious and discover new ways of life, joy, happiness and freedom.

When working with individuals or groups all I want is for them to do the same: start paying attention to their interests, things that make them happy, support the idea that desiring for simple things is enough. In my work as a therapist, I often see despair and loneliness and lack of belief in a possible change. Many people come to me way beyond their due date.

I learn, daily, how to master the art of talk and body therapy. I continually study gestalt theory that help us pay attention and satisfy our needs. I learn how our bodies work in conjunction with our emotions, I study connection between our emotional wellbeing and development of diseases to redirect ourselves to a constructive way of life, to become happier and healthier version of self.

The wonderful thing about being a therapist is seeing that the answers lie within the individual. By giving you all of my focus in can listen, respond and show my true emotions to help you release yours. This is my purpose, and as long as I can work I will devote myself to helping others break their chains, gain back their health and become free to be happy.