When Therapy Hasn’t Quite Worked Before
Many of the people who contact me have already been in therapy before.
They are intelligent, reflective, and capable. They understand their patterns. They can explain their history. And yet something still feels unresolved.
Often the issue is not insight. It is capacity.
Insight can help us understand why we feel the way we do. Capacity determines whether we can stay with those feelings without becoming overwhelmed, detached, or shut down.
In longer-term trauma or early relational wounds, the nervous system often learned to survive by managing intensity rather than processing it. This can mean therapy becomes a place of discussion rather than integration.
Depth work requires pacing. It requires attention not only to what is said, but to what happens in the body, in silence, and in moments of discomfort. It also requires a steady therapeutic relationship that does not rush towards catharsis or quick solutions.
For some people, previous therapy was helpful but stayed at the level of coping. For others, it moved too quickly into material that the system was not yet ready to process.
Therapy does not need to be dramatic to be effective. Often, the most meaningful shifts occur gradually, as regulation increases and the system learns that difficult emotions can be experienced without collapse.
If you have tried therapy before and feel that something important remains unfinished, it may not be that therapy “failed”. It may be that the approach or pacing did not match what you needed at the time.
I offer depth-oriented, trauma-informed psychotherapy for adults seeking steady, contained work. Sessions are available online and in London.
Why do we worry?
Why do we worry?
Certainly for me, my mind likes to indulge in worrying, I am natural born worrier! But is there another way of living and thinking?
What about faith, trusting Universe that it will be ok?
Can I trust and surrender my mind and let it rest?
Yes, I can!
Very simple but not easy!
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What you are looking for is where you are looking from…
I have been searching for answers throughout most of my life. Over nearly two decades of working with clients, I have come to realize that all the answers are within us. The illusion that something or somebody can provide meaning, purpose, and answers to our existential questions keeps us chasing our 'tails.' Until I was able to accept myself just as I am and welcome anything that comes up, such as feelings, thoughts, and my circumstances, I believed that the solutions were outside of me. However, I eventually realized that my true self was always with me. Once I let go of my ego and the constant searching, I discovered that I am one with everything and everybody. Therefore, what I was looking for outside was actually always where I was looking from, within me!
Importance of Boundaries
I heard once someone saying: “if you don’t have a healthy boundaries you are like a house without doors and windows, anyone can come in and out as they please…”
Growing up in disfunctional families where boundaries where crossed many times, it is very difficult to put them up in social settings, especially in intimate relationships as they touch our deepest wounds. So in order to grow and heal, it is of utmost importance to learn a healthy boundaries and practice them, maybe first wit a trusted friend or therapist/support group and then integrate them in our daily life… With boundaries, healthy relationships!
Am I good enough?
Do you ask yourself a question: am I good enough?
Our lives may be going well or not but at the core of ourselves is a belief: I am not good enough, which may prevent us from living fulfilling joyful life!
It is important to examine our core beliefs as they are shaping our lives and future.
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Petar
What is True Self
What is True Self, have you met your True Self?
One of the lines I use in my work is asking a client: 'have you met your True Self?' Normally the answer is no, what is it?
Well, I think that we owe it to ourselves. Life without meeting who we truly are is, to put it mildly 'unfulfilled life'.
There is also a False Self that we may be familiar with and that we created in order to survive and cover what we really think and feel. We may be doing it long enough that we 'forgot' who we are.
This may lead to all sorts of mental health problems (anxiety, depression, relationship issues, etc...).
If you would like to meet your True Self and start an amazing journey of discovery, I welcome you!
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Petar
Authentic Empowerment Psychotherapy
Body-Psychotherapy
Core Energetics Model
Have you heard of Body-Psychotherapy, a unique form of therapy that gives clients results in a short period of time?
The key strength of this kind of therapy is that it bypasses the 'story' of traditional 'Talking therapies' and works somatically by discharging blocked energy (consciousness) that client hold in the body!
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Petar