Laurentiu Nicolae Costrut

I work with adults who experience persistent anxiety, relational difficulties, emotional dysregulation, chronic self-criticism, perfectionism, burnout, or enduring feelings of emptiness, disconnection, or internal pressure that often persist despite high levels of insight and functioning. In many cases, these difficulties are rooted not only in current stressors, but in longstanding patterns of adaptation shaped by early attachment experiences, chronic emotional invalidation, relational trauma, or environments in which emotional needs, dependency, vulnerability, or self-expression could not be safely integrated.

Psychological symptoms are understood not simply as isolated problems to eliminate, but as organized responses that once served important protective functions. Clinical work therefore involves identifying the underlying emotional conflicts, defensive patterns, attachment dynamics, and physiological states that maintain suffering in the present.

Treatment draws from evidence-informed and depth-oriented modalities including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Compassion-Focused Therapy, attachment-based frameworks, and Polyvagal-informed interventions, with attention to the interaction between affect regulation, interpersonal functioning, cognition, and autonomic nervous system processes.

The therapeutic relationship itself is considered central to treatment, providing a structured and psychologically attuned space in which previously defended or disavowed aspects of experience can gradually be explored, regulated, and integrated.

The aim of therapy is not only symptom reduction, but the development of greater emotional coherence, reflective functioning, psychological flexibility, and more adaptive ways of relating to oneself and others.

It´s complicated
IFS & Compassion focused therapist

CEO, Mind Renew
Revolutionizing mental and relational health through empowering individuals and groups to reclaim well-being with groundbreaking digital tools and transformative therapies.

Internal Family Systems Therapist
Providing integrative therapeutic interventions to adults using approaches such as IFS, CFT, CBT and contemplative practices.

Guest Teacher, IPW Hochschule Nordhausen University of Applied Sciences, DE
Leading experiential compassion-based training sessions on psychological well-being and equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I).
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Clinical Internships:

Clinical and Research Internship, Orange Medical Center, PT

Psychologist Intern FEDASIL WSP, Brussels, BE

Psychiatric Emergency Unit Internship , University Hospital of Neuropsychiatry, Brasov, RO

MSc Neuropsychology, Universidade Europeia, Portugal

MSc Clinical & Health Psychology, Utrecht University, Netherlands

MSc Social & Intercultural Psychology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

BSc in Psychology, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

BSc in Psychology, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
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Psychotherapy Training

Compassion Cultivation Training, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education, Stanford University, USA

Internal Family Systems (IFS ) Therapy, The Center for Self-Leadership, USA

CBT for Anxiety, The Beck Institute, USA
Essentials of CBT: The Beck Approach, The Beck Institute, USA

Understanding Anxiety, Depression, and CBT, University of Reading, UK

Cultural Diversity: Communication and Cooperation, I.C.S. Brussels, Belgium

Listening for crisis Training, CEFEC, Brussels, Belgium