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“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
- John Lennon -

It definitely took me over 30 years to come to what I call "being happy" today. In the meantime, I moved several times, lived in 6 countries, raised one child, graduated from two universities, and radically changed my professional path.

From that experience, I know that happiness is not sought, but built. It's rather a hard work, like building a house and in the beginning, you don't even know the material it should be built from.

Come and tell me about your life and how you build your happiness up.

I studied Clinical Psychology at the University of New York in Prague, Social Work at the Prague College of Psychosocial Studies, and Cultural anthropology at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich/Germany. I work in psychodynamic modality.

Education

Mgr. Clinical Psychology (University of New York in Prague/Czech Republic)
Bc. Social work with communication and applied psychotherapy (PVŠPS Praha/Czech Republic)
M.A. Ethnologie und Interkulturelle Komunikation (LMU Muenchen/Germany)

Certifications & Courses

Crises Intervention course (Remedium Prague)
Working with traumatic memory (NICABM/Peter Levine)
Focusing course
Rorschach methodology (Hogrefe Institut Praha)
Working with Men in Therapy: basic course of couple therapy, Terrence Real: Relational Life Therapy
Basic course of couple therapy, Terrence Real: Relational Life Therapy
Positive Psychology: Applications and Interventions (University of Pennsylvania)
Psychological First Aid (John Hopkins University)
Improvisation methods - course
Training in psychodynamic psychotherapy (PVŠPS/Czech Republic)
Practitioner Neuro-linguistic programing (Momentum Strategies/Belgium)
Gestalt in work and personal life (Gestalt Praha/Czech Republic)
Transaction analyses - course (PVŠPS/Czech Republic)