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Jelena
Positive Counselling and Systemic Therapy
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SERVICES
ONLINE
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELLING
& SYSTEMIC THERAPY
50 Min / 85 €
*reduced rates for students and unemployed individuals
OFFLINE
FAMILY COUNSELLING
State sponsored service
>> Hilfe zur Erziehung <<,
psycho-social family support in the Berlin area.
Meine Dienstleistungen sind auch auf Deutsch verfügbar 🇩🇪
Moje su usluge također dostupne na hrvatskom/srpskom/bosanskom jeziku 🇭🇷 🇷🇸 🇧🇦
STYLE
compassionate flexible humorous
My work has overwhelmingly been about supporting women throughout a spectrum of predicaments. In our sessions, we investigate the texture, quality and intensity of your suffering and concerns, with the central tool being our therapeutic relationship.
Instances of my clients stories include experiences of isolation within motherhood or childless womanhood; the right decisions which are still heartbreaking; the deep desire to be loyal to oneself while under immense pressure; the tension between guilt and anger ...
I strive to offer a space for you to find resonance and clarity. Being trained in systemic thinking makes me tirelessly inquisitive on your experiences, the places and people you circulate, your strengths and perspectives, while walking toward a path right for you.
The answers are within yourself - it is my job to witness you unfolding and recognising them - and staying for the consecutive clean up.
APPROACH
humanistic systemic emancipatory
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ABOUT JELENA
trilingual
millennial
refugee born
expat grown
loves psychology
loves sociology
loves philosophy
curious person
Since coming of age, I have become intrigued with psychology and therapeutic theory via media like film and music.
Before attaining a German Bachelors Degree in Psychology (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, 2018) I enjoyed a Croatian public school education which I entered as a clueless child of refugees. In my final project I researched specific feedback and the academic self-concept of preschoolers. Consecutively, Berlin called and I got involved in early childhood development work, an art therapy training at IEK (2020) and many of the agonies young women get to experience.
Mid-post Pandemic I relocated to the Netherlands and gained a Master of Science degree in Positive Psychology and well-being (2022) in Tilburg University, graduating with a qualitative thesis on meaningful work contextualised in Buberian philosophy.
I have since returned to Berlin and found psycho-social work to be a fundamental source of professional, life-long learning and an (albeit complex) frame of service. In governmental and private institutions, the individuals I have been supporting are found across the lifespan and in diverse predicaments, from counselling in refugee centres to family mediation and individual integration into the labor market. Parallel to counselling, I taught two modules in social psychology and diagnostics at Macromedia and Fresenius.
In 2024 I completed DEAKADs systemic and family therapy training with a final thesis on the fields ethics in regards to consumerism and its potential to hijack the respective therapeutic frame and culture. Soon, my own therapist-identity began taking shape and I have found myself carving out the concept presented.