Gestalt Psychotherapy
and
personal development
My qualifications
I am a certified Gestalt psychotherapist. I completed comprehensive, 4-year psychotherapy training at the Gestalt Psychotherapy School in Warsaw.
I hold a psychotherapist certificate from the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT) and am a member of the Polish Gestalt Psychotherapy Society (PTPG). I regularly submit my work to supervision in Poland and abroad.
In my work, I am supported by diverse experiences and personal interests. These include: my professional path with numerous role changes, extensive relational experiences, close companionship with my three children on their life journeys, long-distance hiking with a tent in nature, running, sailing, yoga, and hobby wood carving.
You can read more about me here.
Therapeutic support
I help my individual clients discover their phenomena, improve their quality of life, and give it deeper meaning.
I’m also passionate about accompanying people in becoming fully themselves, building healthy relationships, and discovering life’s deeper mysteries.
To this end, I encourage my clients to consider their important topics not only on a psychological level, but also on existential and spiritual levels.
How I work
In therapeutic work, I meet with adults who are experiencing various personal challenges. I support my clients in reaching the sources of these challenges, expanding awareness, discovering needs and resources, and finding ways to cope with what is difficult.
The goal of the psychotherapy I conduct is also to unlock natural processes of internal integration, healing, and
development in my clients. In this form of support, I accompany people on the path toward what is alive and healthy – toward life and vitality.
I begin the therapeutic relationship with a non-binding consultation, during which I discuss with the client the reasons for seeking therapy, topics they want to address, and the goals and framework of therapy.
As part of the therapeutic process, I then conduct weekly sessions lasting 50, 60, and 90 minutes, in Polish or English.
Therapeutic relationship
I believe in the healing power of a kind encounter with another person and that everyone has resources for growth and change.
These resources can be activated in the therapeutic relationship to which I invite my clients. I build the therapeutic relationship based on genuine contact that develops through unhurried exchanges of thoughts, feelings, sensations, and observations between me and my clients.
In my therapeutic work, I create a safe, judgment-free relational space. In this space, my clients can be or become themselves and creatively experiment with different attitudes, roles, and behaviors.
I respect my clients’ resistance while being curious about its sources and treating it as a message to be heard, not a problem to be solved.
I place special emphasis on bodily symptoms, movement and body structure, working with embodied aspects of the Self, and where a person’s life energy is at any given moment.
I proceed from the assumption that without working with the body and movement, a person can know everything “in their head” and still remain stuck in patterns that no longer serve them or force themselves into actions they have no heart for.
Most common topics of my clients
CONTACT WITH SELF
- I don’t know who I am, I want to get to know myself better
- I never had time to discover what I like
- I feel very lonely, I have no one to discuss my challenges with
- I suffer from insomnia, I’m awakened by a flood of thoughts and emotions
- I have one intense, recurring dream. I want to understand it.
- I feel like I sabotage my own actions
- I don’t understand my body’s reactions (symptoms, tics, back pain, migraines, stomach pain, bruxism without clear medical cause)
- I feel like my life has no meaning, I’ve lost my sense of purpose
- I constantly judge myself and it blocks me from taking action
- I can’t stop overeating, abusing substances
- I have low self-esteem, I feel worthless
- I feel powerless
- Nothing brings me joy, I can’t appreciate myself or celebrate successes
- I feel unattractive, I’m ashamed of my body
- I can’t cope with my sexuality
- I’m tired of constantly stepping out of my comfort zone
- I’m becoming more and more like my father/mother and it terrifies me
- My life is dominated by the voice of my mind. I want to quiet it somehow
- I want to stop being so harsh toward myself and others
- I want to break out of the rigid life framework I’ve imposed on myself
- I notice how much I fantasize and ruminate. I want to be closer to reality
- I can’t distinguish my beliefs from reality
- I want to develop my healthy masculinity/femininity
- I want to learn to take care of myself
EMOTIONS
- I don’t feel emotions, I can’t recognize or name them
- I don’t know what my emotions mean
- I can’t talk about emotions, but I want to learn
- I’m afraid, fear paralyzes me, I feel anxiety, threat, emptiness
- I’m having increasingly frequent panic attacks
- I’m afraid to speak publicly, perform in groups, speak up
- I don’t control my anger and explode too often
- Nothing brings me joy anymore, I can’t enjoy life
- I can’t get angry, so I stay silent, withdraw, or get offended
- I keep longing for what’s past, I can’t let it go
- I so desperately want to find peace
- In contact with a certain person, I feel unnaturally strong, difficult emotions
- Everyone constantly disappoints me
- I’m ashamed to show myself
- I have an enormous sense of worthlessness and being inadequate
- I very often doubt myself despite positive feedback from my environment
- I feel guilty that I’m a bad mother
- I worry excessively about what others will say about me
AWARENESS
- I want to better understand the story of my life and what comes next
- I want to define the meaning of my life and how to live its second half
- I want to better understand what brings me joy and fulfillment
- I want to better understand what decision I should make
- I want to learn how to better protect my sensitivity
- I want to stop being a “good boy” or “nice girl”
- I feel like I have to choose, but my hands are tied
- I can’t cope with failures
- I want to understand why I act immediately, without thinking
- I can’t stop acting or pause, I’m constantly doing something
- I can’t let go until a task is done perfectly
- I have no idea how to deal with a given situation
- I feel enormous resistance to certain tasks and don’t know what it is
- I keep putting everything off until later
NEEDS
- I don’t know what I need
- It seems to me that I don’t need anything
- I want to learn to talk about my needs and fulfill them
- I want to learn to set clear boundaries with other people
- Other people’s needs are more important to me than my own
- I feel like I’m always missing something for happiness
- I’m tired of constantly needing something new
- My achievements don’t bring me pleasure
- I have high expectations that are never met
- Work has dominated my entire life and I’m fed up with it
- I have no interests outside of work
- I want to learn to rest and regenerate
- I want to develop spontaneity and freedom
- I want to learn to enjoy life
RELATIONSHIPS
- I crave closeness while simultaneously running away from it
- I want to cope in my relationship with my father, mother, partner
- I want to set boundaries and defend myself in this relationship, take care of myself
- I want to escape from a relationship of psychological or physical violence
- I would like to better support and understand my children
- I would like to establish contact with my child
- I want to better cope with my child’s rebellion
- I want to better support my child with a specific disorder diagnosis
- I want to leave my husband while not hurting our children
- I would like to be a better father/mother to my children
- I want to develop my sensitivity in order to have closer relationships
- I want to improve my relationships with my father/mother
- I can’t choose between my wife and the woman who fascinates me
- I’m exhausted from rescuing
- I’m tired of feeling responsible for everyone
- I’m fed up with discovering the same role in my relationships over and over
- I’m fed up with submitting to others
- I keep having new partners, but I can’t commit to a relationship
- A year ago my girlfriend left me, and I’m still jealous about her
- I can’t let go of control, I’m overprotective
- I can’t cope with my loneliness, I’m afraid of loneliness
- I keep meeting disappointing partners
- I want to find true love in life
- I feel like I don’t deserve love
- I constantly help people, and they turn away from me
- A person close to me died or left, I’m grieving
- I can’t get along with another person
- I’m suffering because of separation from someone close to me
- I can’t leave a person who makes me feel bad
- I’m considering divorce
- I’m going through a divorce and need support
- I’m after a divorce and want to rebuild my life
- I’m fed up with making the same mistakes in relationships over and over
CRISIS OR IMPASSE
- I’m experiencing chronic stress
- I can’t get out of bed in the morning
- I can’t pull myself together to act, take the first step
- I put everything off until later and then I’m late
- I’m completely exhausted, I have no energy for life
- I have no life outside of work, I have a disturbed work-life balance
- I can’t go on like this anymore, I’m at the end of my strength
- I’m overworked, I can’t cope anymore
- I work so much that I practically don’t see my family anymore
- This problem has been going on for years, I can’t solve it
- I’m torn between different choices, I want to understand them better
- A person close to me left, I lost my footing
OTHER
- I feel bad, but I don’t know what I want to achieve
- I suffer from a specific illness and want to cope with it better
- I have a diagnosis of a specific disorder and want to work with it
- I want to better cope with my narcissism, borderline, ADHD, compulsiveness, anxiety and panic attacks, loss of life energy, depression
- I want to come to terms with aging/passing
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My clients' opinions
Our sessions created a space where I could feel free and safe. The most valuable for me were the exercises that helped me cope with my inner critic and other traumas. Thanks to them, I understood my emotions and needs as well as the emotions of others.
Your approach, full of mindfulness and empathy, allowed me to look at myself from a new perspective. Thanks to this, I became more aware of my reactions, and my relationships with others gained authenticity. I wholeheartedly recommend your services to anyone seeking effective help in personal development.
Working with Maciek was an extremely valuable journey that brought visible changes to my life. Above all, I feel peace in what I do – I have a sense that I act in harmony with myself. I learned to notice my emotions in relationships and cope with what I feel, which makes me less frustrated. I freed myself from constant thinking and analyzing situations, which brought me peace. I gained self-confidence and learned to set boundaries, which I now feel really good about.
Maciek is a warm, attentive, smiling, positive, very supportive person. I had the pleasure of working with him for about a year. A lot happened during this time. Thanks to his help:
• I made and executed one of the most difficult decisions in my life
• I found my criteria for success and good life, learned to be guided by them.
• I allowed the voice of my heart, not just my head, to reach me.
• I believed in myself and felt more confident.
• I felt agency, and that I have control over my life.
• I felt less anxiety and fear of making a mistake - instead I started exploring, checking.
Maciek accompanied me through difficulties and successes. He's a warm guy with whom I could discover myself in a safe and relaxed atmosphere.
Our sessions created a space where I could feel free and safe. The most valuable for me were the exercises that helped me cope with my inner critic and other traumas. Thanks to them, I understood my emotions and needs as well as the emotions of others.
Your approach, full of mindfulness and empathy, allowed me to look at myself from a new perspective. Thanks to this, I became more aware of my reactions, and my relationships with others gained authenticity. I wholeheartedly recommend your services to anyone seeking effective help in personal development.
Working with Maciek was an extremely valuable journey that brought visible changes to my life. Above all, I feel peace in what I do – I have a sense that I act in harmony with myself. I learned to notice my emotions in relationships and cope with what I feel, which makes me less frustrated. I freed myself from constant thinking and analyzing situations, which brought me peace. I gained self-confidence and learned to set boundaries, which I now feel really good about.
Maciek is a warm, attentive, smiling, positive, very supportive person. I had the pleasure of working with him for about a year. A lot happened during this time. Thanks to his help: