I provide counseling services and gestalt psychotherapy (under supervision) in Croatian, English and Macedonian language via my private business.
Counselling and psychotherapy are best described by the question that is asked by the counselor on the first session:
“What would change/ who would you become – if this counseling – by your expectations – succeeded?”
The aim is to enable the client to define and achieve their goals as successfully as possible, to better understand themselves and their relationship with other people, and to help the client to successfully master the skill of holding his life’s course in his own hands – but also to stop negative beliefs and patterns in thinking and doing that are no longer serving the client (higher self awareness and mentalization).
Counselor or therapist is here to primarily hear you, understand you, direct you, and provide you with a safe place where you can fully express yourself and provide you with mental and emotional support.
Together, through conversation, and the exchange of ideas, thoughts and experiences – the client and the life counselor come to the solution to problems and challenges that the client faces and work to improve the quality of their life.
This process teaches, refines, and gives a new experience to both the client and the counselor / therapist .
The client thus gets to know themselves better, gets the perspective of a “third person” who supports them, and uses all of their knowledge and experience in achieving the client’s life goals.
Therapist is being enriched with another valuable experience and perspective with each new client and thus further learns about the human experience and different life paths through cooperation towards achieving a shared goal.
Clients always know what is best for them – and they make all the decisions. Therapist is there to help the client understand and form their life path, gather their thoughts, better understand themselves and others, define goals and plans how to achieve these goals, and generally help the client to increase the quality of their life.