About me

People often tell me that, with me, they feel they can bring everything. That nothing they carry will be judged, dismissed, or treated as too much. There is space for confusion, ambivalence, anger, tenderness, and things that may feel difficult to name. I am able to stay present with what is heavy, without rushing to fix it or make it disappear. At the same time, I am not distant or passive. I am involved, responsive, and willing to speak directly when something matters for the process.

CARE DOES NOT MEAN AVOIDING WHAT MATTERS.

Understanding what is happening is often an important part of the work, especially at the beginning. Making sense of patterns, histories, and meanings can bring relief and orientation. We use that understanding as support, not as a way to stay at a distance from experience.

Alongside this, we slow things down enough to notice how these patterns live in the body and in relationship — in moments of closeness, hesitation, tension, or withdrawal as they appear between us. An important part of my work is inviting people to take responsibility for what they do, how they protect themselves, and how they participate in relationships. This is done without blame or moralizing, and with respect for the strategies that once helped them survive.

My background is interdisciplinary, shaped by psychotherapy, linguistics, and long-term clinical training. I am trained in Gestalt therapy and work from an integrative, relational framework informed by attachment-based, emotion-focused, and schema-oriented perspectives.

My education involved extensive personal and group therapy, which I consider essential rather than optional in this field. It shaped not only how I work, but how I relate to responsibility, power, and presence in therapeutic relationships.

I work with ongoing supervision and intervision. This is not a formality, but a way of staying accountable, reflective, and open to learning — in relation to my clients and to my own processes. As a queer person and an immigrant, my work is also informed by lived experience of navigating systems that present themselves as neutral while reproducing hierarchy and exclusion. This shapes how I attend to language, power, and the subtle dynamics that affect queer lives.

My work is situated within established professional contexts through affiliation with relevant organizations in the field of psychotherapy and counseling.

These affiliations provide a shared ethical framework, professional accountability, and an ongoing reference point for reflective practice.

Professional affiliations include:

European Association for Psychotherapy (EAP) https://www.europsyche.org/

European Association for Gestalt Psychotherapy (EAGT) https://eagt.org/home/

Nederlandse Associatie voor Psychotherapie (NAP) https://www.nap-psychotherapie.nl/home

International Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy (IAAGT) https://iaagt.org/

I practice in English and Serbian (BCMS).

My work is informed by direct experience with queer and trans people, as well as engagement with queer and trans activism. Through this, I have seen how oppression operates both visibly and invisibly. In openly oppressive contexts, harm is often clear and undeniable. In seemingly liberal contexts, harm can become harder to name — quieter, more internalized, and easier to dismiss, even when it continues to shape people’s lives. Even those who are relatively privileged within queer communities can carry a sense of unease, disconnection, or missing support that is rarely recognized or addressed. This invisible gap is something I take seriously in my work.

Queer clients do not need to educate me about who they are.

They also do not need to downplay or justify the impact of minority stress. I am also aware that I work from specific social and personal positions, and that these come with privileges as well as limits. Because of this, there are experiences I cannot fully see or feel from the inside. I remain open to hearing when this becomes relevant in our work, and I take that seriously.

THIS IS WHY IT MATTERS TO ME TO MEET EACH PERSON WITH DEEP RESPECT FOR THE EXPERIENCE THEY BRING.

It matters to be clear about what this work is, and what it is not. I am not a psychiatrist, and I am not a clinical psychologist. I do not work from a psychiatric or clinical treatment perspective. If someone requires medical, psychiatric, or acute clinical care, it is important that they receive support that matches those needs. My work is relational, non-pathologizing, and context-aware. It is not crisis intervention, and it is not focused on symptom control alone.

Clear boundaries are part of what makes the work safe and trustworthy, so that the focus can stay on you.