Aleksandra

Welcome!

A little something about me that might help you decide whether we are a good fit. A good fit matters quite a lot in psychotherapy. So trust your gut, mind and heart when you are choosing a therapist.

HORÓ Counselling comes from [horó], a Bulgarian word that means dance, that I use to represent “a metaphoric open women circle” for genuine connection, energy, support and healing.

HORÓ Counselling offers a unique blend of healing modalities which sit at the intersection of Science (I am a Researcher and a Seeker), Psychotherapy (I am trained in therapeutic approaches and counselling), and Spirituality (I dig into ancient healing practices).

Although I am very grateful for my traditional education in Psychology, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and Research (I hold a Doctorate in Perinatal Mental Health) I am aware of their limitations when it comes to discovering the deep connection between body, mind as soul.

As Psychology quite often fails to understand the uniqueness of the individual in its attempt for scientific rigor and legitimacy, other frameworks that are both ancient and currently gaining popularity, offer equally unique therapeutic benefits.

HORÓ Counselling is grounded in therapeutic approaches that are both solid and effective (masculine principle) as well as fluid, spontaneous and deep (feminine) in re-membering our true SELF.

HORÓ is a dance between these principles.

The yin and yang, the story and the background, the spiritual and the material, the feminine and the masculine, light and dark, pain and love, intuition and logic. Holding these oppositions within is central to healing.

I opened my own little nest of magic over 6 years ago, in Brisbane (Annerley), Australia where I provide support to:

• Mothers •  though the “Motherhood out loud” sessions • support from pre-conception, fertility, through pregnancy, birth, motherhood, postnatal depression/anxiety/distress, and beyond. Please check out the “NO TRAUMA MAMA” Bundle for a wrap around service from pregnancy through birth and beyond

• Women • through IFS individual sessions • for those of us who feel like they would like to live a more integrated, whole, and soulful life, and Self-lead life.

 

• I lead Women’s groups that explore various concepts around human connection, what it means to be a 21 century woman, a mother through Jungian informed practices, Art, Storytelling, and Archetypal work, and Internal Family Systems.

My work approach is informed by:

• Internal Family Systems (IFS); I am level 3 IFS trained)

• Psychoanalytic, Depth and Jungian Psychology

• Archetypal work

• Dream work
• Storytelling
• Compassionate approaches
• Mindbody connection
• Relational/attachment trauma

I am continually training and in supervision with Jungian Analyst and Depth Psychology keeper of the old ways, cantadora Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estès Rèyes, who has deeply influenced and transformed the lives of women across the world with her approaches to storytelling, archetypal work, myths and embodied connection.

Main areas of psychotherapy I work with:

• Mothering and Parenting
• Couple’s relationships
• Addictive Processes
• Sexuality and Identity
• Grief and Loss
• Life transitions
• Depression
• Anxiety

To book a session with me (via Zoom or in my practice) please contact me at:

horoforwomen@gmail.com

Aleksandra

p.s. I also manage a Facebook Page (link below), you can follow it for my latest events.

HORÓ Counselling