About me
Competencies, social and professional functions & activities
I completed a long-term individual training path with the International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP), based in Zurich. I underwent my training supervision and analysis in London, UK. For many years I have been deepening my competences by taking part in courses and seminars organized by various analytical and psychotherapeutic institutes and organizations, run by specialized staff from all over the world. I also provide psychotherapy and analysis in English (TOEIC score 985/990).
My certifications include:
- Certified as Jungian Analyst International Association for Analytical Psychology
- Certificate of psychotherapistPolish Association of Analytical Psychology
- Certificate of psychotherapist of thePolish Federation of Psychotherapy
- Gifts Compass advisor certificate(a tool for working with Jungian psychological types)
Current professional and social roles:
- Psychotherapist, supervisor and Jungian analyst in private practice
- Founding member, President of the Board, co-director of training and teacher in the psychotherapy course of the Association of Jungian Analysts in Poland
- Author of the Republic of Dreams project
- Lecturer at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology of the University of Warsaw – “Anthropology and Psychotherapy” and “Anthropology of Dreams” subjects
- Vice President and Chair of Ethical Committee of the Polish Federation of Psychotherapy
- Second Vice President (former President), member of the Training Committee and Course Director of thePolish Analytical Psychology Association (PTPA)
My education:
- Supervision course accredited by the International Society of Analytical Psychology (Bucharest, 2019)
- Postgraduate course in psychodynamic and analytic supervision – C.G. Jung Institute Copenhagen / Dansk Selskab for Analytisk Psykologi (Copenhagen, 2016)
- Individual training route – Jungian psychoanalysis – International Association for Analytical Psychology based in Zurich (2012-2016)
- Course in Jungian psychotherapy and analytical psychology – Polish Association of Analytical Psychology
- Doctoral School in the Humanities (Cultural and Religious Sciences) – University of Warsaw
- GCI Certification Training – specialized training in Jungian psychological types / GCI – Gifts Compass, Inc.
- Introduction to behavioral-cognitive therapy – European Psychiatric Association
- Volunteer psychotherapist at the Mazovian Specialized Health Center named after prof. Jan Mazurkiewicz (Tworki Hospital)
- Clinical internship in the Mazovian Specialized Health Center named after prof. Jan Mazurkiewicz
My experience as a Jungian psychotherapist and psychoanalyst consists of over 2000 hours of specialized training and over 10 years of experience as a therapist. I am guided in my work by the Codes of Ethics of the Association of Jungian Analysts, PTPA, IAAP and the Polish Federation of Psychotherapy I carry professional liability insurance that covers the practice of psychotherapy.
Outside of the consulting room, I am involved in music, and for health and balance, I practice the Chinese martial art of I Liq Chuan.
Publications:
- The Republic of Dreams: analytical-anthropological research on social dreaming in Poland (2020-2022). In Analytical Psychology Opening to the Changing World: Contemporary Perspectives on Clinical, Scientific, Social, Cultural and Environmental Issues – Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Congress of the International Association for Analytical Psychology in Buenos Aires 2022 (ed. Jacqueline Egli).
- Sny w pandemii (Dreams in the Pandemic) [in Polish]. In To wróci. Przeszłość i przyszłość pandemii (ed. Prof. Przemysław Czapliński), Warsaw: Książka i Prasa.
- Archetyp inicjacji w pandemicznych snach warszawiaków (The Archetype of Initiation in the Pandemic Dreams of Warsaw Inhabitants) [in Polish]. In Konteksty psychoanalizy. Widzieć w ciemności. Poruszanie się po terytorium zmian, Wrocław: University of Wrocław.
- Pacjent Polska. Tysiąc snów Polaków (Patient Poland: A Thousand Dreams of Poles) [in Polish]. Gazeta Wyborcza / Duży Format (27 September 2021), Warsaw: Agora.
- Co na to dusza? (What Does the Soul Say?) [in Polish]. Presto (#37, Spring 2021), Warsaw: Presto Publishing.
- A Jungian Perspective on Cyberpunk, Manga and Geek Culture in Japan. In Vienna 2019 – Encountering the Other: Within us, between us and in the world, Einsiedeln: Daimon Verlag.
- Psychologia greckiej wiedźmy. Czego uczy nas historia antycznej Kirke? (The Psychology of the Greek Witch: What Can We Learn from the Story of the Ancient Circe?) [in Polish]. Sens (No. 2/2019), Warsaw: Zwierciadło Publishing.
- Sny, seks i duchowość (Dreams, Sex, and Spirituality) [in Polish]. Online articles for Przekrój quarterly.
- Samurajski sposób na ból istnienia (The Samurai Way of Coping with Existential Pain) [in Polish]. Przekrój (No. 4 (3559)/17), Warsaw: Przekrój Sp. z o.o.
- Wielkie i małe sny (Big and Small Dreams) [in Polish]. Coaching Extra (No. 3/2016), Warsaw: Burda Publishing.
- W poszukiwaniu powołania (In Search of a Calling) [in Polish]. Coaching Extra (No. 2/2016), Warsaw: Burda Publishing.
- Gnostycy, alchemicy, Jung: Czerwona Księga a hermeneutyka indywiduacji (Gnostics, Alchemists, and Jung: The Red Book and the Hermeneutics of Individuation) [in Polish]. Hermaion (No. 1), Warsaw: OKULTURA Publishing.
- Czerwona księga a inicjacja Junga (The Red Book and Jung’s Initiation) [in Polish]. Albo albo. Problemy psychologii i kultury (No. 3-4/2011), Warsaw: ENETEIA Publishing.