"Psychotherapy is a path leading to a more free, conscious, and balanced personal life. With deeper, mindful self-understanding, people can navigate themselves to make better, responsible decisions to enjoy quality relationships and happier lives."
I am professionally engaged in online and face-to-face individual psychotherapy and counseling in local and foreign communities in various countries. In my private practice, I provide individual psychotherapy, couples therapy, and counseling in Ghent (Vindeentherapeut) and online throughout Europe and the USA. I have a sex-positive attitude and welcome people identifying with minorities such as LGBTQIA+, non-traditional relationship styles, exploring sexuality questions, and religious or cultural minorities.
I gained wider international therapeutic experience in Colorado and California in the USA and in the Czech Republic. During the last decade, I became properly acquainted with the Flemish cultural context, interpersonal dynamics, and current therapeutic and research standards. Although I understand Dutch, the therapy is provided in English, Czech, or Slovak.
I am a member of the Czech Psychotherapy Association and the European Association for Integrative Psychotherapy, holder of the European Psychotherapy Certificate. My PhD is focused on communication in pair interactions within the field of cultural anthropology and evolutionary psychology.
Methods and Approaches
My role as a psychotherapist is to guide you through challenging times, point out what may be hidden, and help you activate and incorporate desired changes into everyday life in a harmonious manner.
As a researcher, I primarily use evidence-based methods, looking at an individual's experiences in a holistic, systemic way. Using an integrative approach, I select efficient methods from various psychotherapeutic approaches such as CBT, psycho-dynamic, existential psychotherapy, nonverbal drama-therapy, or guided imagery methods.
For every person, I create individualized protocol according to his or her specific needs to achieve the kindest and most effective treatment possible.
Psychotherapy process
Through creating a deeply human bond, experiencing dynamics between us and inside themselves, we will explore the shape of a challenging situation. People develop profound insights into their lives, their “psýché”, the areas that can cause anxiety and worries and limit their potential, but also into spaces that can make them happy and able to enjoy an entirely new sense of well-being and safety.
The psychotherapeutic process in my understanding is a way to give people back to themselves. Together we carefully touch old dysfunctional patterns, and with high respect, we gently release them. Looking further, behind the horizon, mobilizing internal sources, searching, and finding more functional and more beautiful insights. I help my clients enlighten their path and hold their hand while starting their first steps towards a change. Often, also meeting and letting go of scary ghosts along the path.
Even though I do have a wide scientific and professional background, when sitting down and facing a human being, I respect and honor individuality and create space for deeply human conversation, meeting in a phenomenological dialogue.
Specialization
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Relationship issues
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Communications troubles
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Management of traumatic life events, crisis intervention
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Stress-related issues and post-traumatic syndrome
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Fears, anxiety and confidence issues
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Violence and abuse – close relationships, child abuse, violence in classrooms, etc.
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Troubles raising from intercultural contexts or disadvantaged conditions
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Or „just“ wanting a personal growth and tune out or balance some areas of life
Experience
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I have completed various long-term certified training programs in individual psychotherapy, group therapy, couples, and family therapy.
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more than 10 years of experience performing child, adolescent, and adult counseling and psychotherapy
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in the environment of private, clinical, NGO and state-operated settings
I worked with patients and clients presenting a wide range of conditions, including physical and mental abuse, family issues, behavioral disorders, mental illnesses, and substance abuse. This experience goes across different psychotherapy approaches, social work, coaching, and counseling. That allows me to adapt the approach, style, and method to specific needs of each client.
Frequency and number of sessions
The number and frequency of psychotherapy sessions depend on your current needs. The standard duration of a session is 55 minutes. The most effective frequency is once one or two weeks. A counseling session can also be a one-off consultation on a specific issue.
Price list
Price can differ based on individual needs (e.g. longer session)
70 € per 55-minute in-person individual session.
85 € per 75-minute couples session
Reimbursement by insurance companies may be possible depending on your specific insurance.
I understand that sometimes financial difficulties accompany already not easy situations, and therefore, I’m open to discussing an individually tailored plan.
Termination and confidentiality
You can stop or end any therapy process at any time. Keeping absolute confidentiality with regard to all the information you provide is, of course, a basic rule. I´m a member of the Czech Association for Psychotherapy (CAP) and I follow the Code of Ethics of the European Psychotherapy Association (EAP).
Cancellation
Please let me know at least one business day in advance of the cancellation of the deadline. Otherwise, I will kindly ask you to pay half the amount for this unrealized meeting because your term will no longer serve anybody else.
Contact
Address
Belgium
Lieremastraat 45
9000 Gent
