Hope is not the belief that everything will turn out well, but that it makes sense no matter how it turns out
Václav Havel
I am not going to tell you what to do or how to live. As a psychologist, I try to be available to people in finding her original way and solving the difficulties that have befallen them. My job is to have more hope than the person who has come for that very reason...
Inquiry is the piety of thought.
Anna Hogenová
One can feel nervous in silence, but I will not tell you how to fill your time. It is important to me that one can express what one has no words for and find ways to give the right shape to one's experiences.
I don't want anyone to talk about anything that hurts them. In my experience, the more they put into therapy, the more there is to gain. But in order to start psychotherapy, one needs to find out that one has the conditions to do it, to be able to rely on it.
The first three sessions are a taster session, where the client finds out how I work and I build up a picture of what the therapy will require so that we both feel confident that we want to enter into it.
I work under constant supervision and continue to educate myself. I am a member of the Daseinsanalytic Society and also a member of CHIPE.
It is important to me to uphold the principles of ethical work with clients including professional competence and its development, confidentiality, maintaining the framework of psychotherapy and adequate information.