About me
My path into this work has not been a straight one.
Born and raised in Romania, I left in my early twenties. Life took me through Germany, the United States, back to Germany, South Africa, and now India.
For years, I lived in a very different world, studying and working in the corporate sphere. Yet personal loss and grief gradually changed the questions that mattered to me. The life I had built no longer seemed able to answer them.
Those questions led me away from my former professional path and toward psychology. But before it became a profession, it was a deeply personal search: an attempt to understand what remains when familiar identities fall away, and how we find our way toward a life that feels more deeply our own.
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A journey inward
Living in South Africa marked a turning point. Experiences that brought me into direct contact with the body, trauma, and non-ordinary states of consciousness awakened a desire to understand the healing process more deeply.
A journey to Peru brought me closer to traditions in which healing includes the body, nature, ritual, ancestry, and the sacred. Later, living in India opened another dimension of this exploration through contemplative traditions and a pilgrimage to Mount Kailash in Tibet.
These encounters broadened my understanding of human experience and invited me to remain curious about ways of knowing that do not always fit neatly into psychological explanations.
Over time, I became less interested in finding definitive answers and more interested in what our experiences might reveal about our inner lives.
Having lived in many places, I have also come to understand home less as a geographical place and more as a relationship with oneself.
This ongoing exploration continues to inform my work today: a respect for the complexity of human experience, an openness to different ways of understanding it, and an appreciation for the different ways we can come into a deeper relationship with ourselves and our lives.
How I work
My work brings together Somatic Experiencing®, IFS-informed work, Jungian and depth-oriented psychology, dreamwork, and psychedelic preparation and integration. I draw on these and other approaches according to what feels relevant to the person and the process, rather than following a single framework.
I see therapy as creating the conditions in which what has become difficult to access, feel, or express can gradually find its way into awareness. This may involve bodily sensations, emotions, memories, dreams, imagination, or ways of relating to ourselves and others. Rather than rushing toward explanations or solutions, I am interested in what becomes possible when we give these experiences time and space to unfold.
I am interested in the meeting place between the body, psychological experience, and the spiritual dimensions of being human, without reducing one to the other. I value psychological understanding while remaining open to those aspects of experience that may evoke a sense of the sacred or the ineffable.
This calls for curiosity, discernment, and a willingness to stay with uncertainty rather than impose a single interpretation.
Ultimately, I see psychological growth as a movement toward greater wholeness: not becoming someone else, but developing a deeper relationship with ourselves, with others, and with life.