My path to Psychotherapeutic work
I chose to become an Existential Analyst because I have always believed that human suffering is not a design flaw, but a deeply profound part of being alive. On my way of becoming a psychotherapist I realized that people don’t just want their symptoms managed, even though that is what they usually ask for, and I get it, we all dream of that magic pill. But what’s a dream stays a dream. In reality we all want to feel seen, understood, and at home in our own skin. Dreams can only take us away from reality. Takes us away from ourselves. Takes us away from living the only life we have. And EA teaches us to first see what is there, ask ourselves is it really like this? Can I accept it as it is? To understand and see the reality for what it is. It is hard and requires a lot of endurance and readiness from us but it also gives us strength to find our ground and make meaningful uniquely for us decisions in our life. To experience it as a personal life, the one that has joy and sadness, challenges and resolutions, loss and gain – these are essential ingredients of a fulfilled life, but what makes it good is how we relate to it and how we handle the easy and difficult parts of it.
Throughout my studies and years of clinical work, I have been absolutely captivated by this combination in EA: its humanistic warmth, balanced with a deep strive for the hard truth. This is exactly the approach I bring into our practice.
Existential Analysis stole my heart because it takes you and your experiences seriously with empathy and attention. It doesn’t look at you through a lens of “what is wrong with you?” but rather asks, “how can we help you to live the life that feels like yours?”
Education & Professional Training
Psychotherapy grounded in Existential Analysis
Registered psychotherapist under supervision listed by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health since 2024
Existential Analysis & Logotherapy at Gesellschaft für Logotherapie und Existenzanalyse (GLE), Vienna since 2023
BA.pth & MA.pth in Psychotherapy Science at Sigmund Freud University, Vienna since 2020
Training & prior education
Clinical and Practical Training
Therapist under supervision (Status)
SFU Clinic for Adults, Vienna (since 2024)
Clinical training – Fachspezifikum
SFU Clinic for Adults, Vienna (2023–2024)
Clinical training – Propädeutikum
SFU Clinic for Adults, Vienna (2021–2023)
Continuing Education
International GLE Congress 2024, Berlin
Shaping one’s life story. Biography and freedom in the existential-analytic understanding
International GLE Congress 2023, Vienna
Anxiety as an existential challenge: Phenomena – Understanding – Treatment
Prior Academic Education
MA in Digital Communication
Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), Milan, 2017
BA in International Relations
Lazarski University, Warsaw, 2014
A part of BA: Social Pedagogical Art Programme
KATHO, Belgium, 2013
What does “under supervision” means?
In psychotherapy (often phrased as in Ausbildung unter Supervision in Austria), this means that the therapist has completed their extensive university or institutional training and is fully authorized to conduct independent therapy sessions, but their clinical work is regularly supervised by a senior expert.