Psychotherapists

We are two certified psychotherapists with diplomas from the Polish Association of Psychotherapists and Process Psychology Practitioners (a member of the Polish Psychotherapy Council) and from the International Association of Process Oriented Psychology. We founded Couples Center in 2012. We both work in Polish and English. How we work with couples is described under What does couples therapy involve?

We work with couples of different orientations, identities, nationalities, ages, and religions.

I perceive couples therapy as a space where partners can meet and explore what binds them together and what they value. I try to create conditions in which both people can feel comfortable speaking about themselves and their difficulties. I firmly believe that relationships deserve special attention due to their profound impact on our lives. In them we can develop our greatest strengths and attend to the most painful problems. Often it is not an easy process, but a deep and meaningful one.

The issues I often address with couples include deepening intimacy and trust, overcoming feelings of loneliness and communication barriers, navigating the challenges of parenthood, addressing sexual concerns and coping with fertility struggles. I also have experience working with couples from diverse cultural backgrounds.

I am a certified psychotherapist, psychologist, and sociologist, a graduate of the College of Interdisciplinary Individual Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Warsaw. Since 2007, I have been providing individual and couples therapy.

I have completed internships at the Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology in Warsaw, the Center for Neuropsychiatry and Rehabilitation in Zagórze, the Women's Rights Center, and the Princess Anna Mazowiecka Hospital in the Departments of Pregnancy Pathology and Gynecology.

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Therapy makes it possible to pause over the situation partners have found themselves in — often against their own intentions — and to follow what is alive in the relationship, what is painful, what is blocked, and what is still possible. It's a space for reflection on the needs, hopes, and daily realities of the relationship.

I work mainly long-term, although sometimes, even after a few consultations, partners experience relief or gain clarity on the future direction of their relationship. What matters to me are conditions in which it becomes possible to speak, in the presence of the other person, about what is difficult, unclear, or has so far been avoided.

I understand a relationship as a process with its own history, tensions, resources, and movement — not a simple sum of two people. A crisis rarely comes down to one person's behavior; more often it reveals a pattern in which both begin to act against their own intentions. Following that process closely shows where change is possible, and where the limits, fears, or loyalties present in the relationship need to be acknowledged more carefully.

I am interested in how this process shows itself in the desires, difficulties, and even the unintentional events that build a couple.

I have been practicing as a psychotherapist since 2007. My clinical experience includes work at the Oncology Department of the Military Institute of Medicine, as well as at facilities providing assistance to autistic adolescents and individuals with psychiatric diagnoses. I have a keen interest in creativity and art.

I am a certified psychotherapist and a graduate of the Faculty of Management at the University of Warsaw.

For more information, please visit mikolajczyz.com.