I work with people who are navigating life in between.
Not between countries exactly, though often that too, but between the person they were before they moved and whoever they're becoming now. Between a life that looks reasonable from the outside and an internal experience that doesn't quite match it.
That in-between place doesn't always have a name since it's not always a crisis. But it tends to get heavier the longer it goes unexamined. I find the questions it raises genuinely important — what does it mean to feel at home? What happens to identity when the context you built it in disappears? For most of the people I work with, these aren't abstract but the texture of daily life.
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On meaning, and why it matters in therapy
My approach is grounded in logotherapy, developed by Viktor Frankl, which proceeds from the premise that the search for meaning is a fundamental human orientation, not a luxury. When that search stalls, it tends to produce a specific kind of distress: not always dramatic, often subtle. It is felt as a flatness or a sense that something essential is missing even when everything is technically fine.
Relocation has a particular way of disrupting the structures through which people make sense of themselves, which is why this framework suits expat experience so well. The work is less about managing symptoms and more about understanding what's underneath them and finding a more honest relationship with all of it.
Training and experience
I hold a BA and MA in Philosophy and am currently a PhD candidate researching the phenomenology of therapeutic practice. My clinical training was completed at Sigmund Freud University Ljubljana, and my logotherapy training is accredited by the Viktor Frankl Institute. I have approximately 800 hours of supervised practice, including experience in psychiatric settings. I work online, in English and Slovene, with clients across Europe.
Why I work with expats specifically
Expat experience involves a particular constellation of difficulties that general training in this field doesn't always prepare practitioners to engage with well. Many people I work with arrived in the Netherlands with reasonable expectations and found the emotional reality of relocation more complicated than anticipated. They got surprised by the loneliness or the way old patterns resurfaced, without the familiar people and places that usually kept them in check, surprised them.
These aren't signs of fragility but rather ordinary consequences of a genuinely difficult kind of change. And they respond well to support that takes the expat context seriously.
If you're considering whether this might be useful
The first step is a single session at half price, with no obligation to continue. If it becomes clear that a different kind of support would serve you better, I'll say so honestly.
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