I HAVE WALKED THE TALK AND I AM STILL DOING IT!

Moldova

I was born in Moldova in 1980. After graduating high school I studied law at the Moldova State University. Afterwards I taught Constitutional law as an assistant lecturer for one year at the same university. 

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Italy

At the age of 19 I met my husband and in 2003 we moved to Italy. In Italy I studied science of education. When my son was born in 2010, I became interested in family relationships and how the way I was raised, could influence my parenting skills. I took a course in parenting counseling and became member of Family lab Italy - an organization that is part of Family lab international Association, created by the Danish family psychotherapist Jesper Juul. As a member I have been working with individual-, family and group counseling. I was also organizing theme - workshops and participating in events to spread the work we were doing. 

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Denmark

In 2015 I moved to Denmark together with my family. I started as a volunteer at Nest International, an organization that helps and supports foreign women trafficked into prostitution. After a few months I was employed there as a social worker and worked there for about 3 years. Meanwhile I was getting more and more interested in working with families. I started my education as a psychotherapist and family therapist at the Danish Institute for Family Therapy in 2018.

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In 2019 I started working as a family counselor in Memox, an organization that offers different kinds of family help/counseling packages and collaborates with the communes in the field of Child protection and family counseling. In 2020 I got employed as a family counselor in Høje Taastrup commune, continuing working and helping families and children. 

In the past three years I worked with socio-economical vulnerable families that have complex problematic issues like childhood trauma, physical and psychological abuse, substance abuse, divorce and high conflict collaboration between parents, one or both parents with mental illnesses and multiple diagnoses, children with depression/anxiety/eating disorders/OCD etc. 

From 2023 I became independent and I am mow focusing on my private practice offering psychotherapy for individuals (young and adults), couples and families. 

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As you can see I have traveled and lived in a few countries, I have beed inspired and I have integrated different cultures and have been through different challenges. Related to that I consider myself a citizen of the world and privileged that I had the opportunity to experience life in different ways. 

I am both professionally and personally familier with the challenges of being "an outsider" but feeling "an insider" - an in between systems and cultures, with the need and wish to re-invent myself professionally and grow and develop personally. 

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How I work - my focus

I focus on creating a safe environment where you can feel your emotions and body sensations, become aware of your inner thoughts and voices, give place to all the reactions that come and afterwards welcome new experiences of yourself. We create change together. 

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I don't fix and don't come with quick solutions. I help you to find your own way. I see internal states like depression, anxiety, eating disorders, OCD as symptoms and I am not focusing on making them disappear. Together we will look at the causes, will be curious about what these symptoms want to tell us and will work through it. The focus on the symptom can get a short term relief, but if the cause is not addressed, then the symptom will reappear in the same way or under another symptom. 

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The fundament of my work is - presence and human contact here and now, humbleness and equal dignity in the meeting with you and your family, authentic and curious dialog, because you are your own expert and the expert on your family, you are the expert of your life - I am only a humble witness. 

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High ethics and professionalism is very important to me. I am a member of the Danish Psychotherapeutic Association as a guarantee for the quality of my education and I follow their guidlines for ethical requirements needed for working as a therapist.