Vladimir Zujovic

I was born in Belgrade in 1980. My life has taken me through many worlds — sport, ambition, success, loss, fatherhood, rupture, and deep transformation. I grew up in an environment that taught strength early. When my parents divorced, something in me broke open very young, and from then on I learned how to survive by becoming capable, functional, and outwardly composed. Basketball became my first great love. It gave me direction and discipline — and it became tied to something deeper: the need to prove my worth, to be seen, to feel that I mattered. At eighteen, I moved to the United States on a full basketball scholarship. I went on to build a professional career in Europe, while completing studies in business and management. From the outside, life looked successful. But inside, there was pain I had not yet met, and a profound disconnection from myself. After twelve years of professional basketball, I retired and returned to Belgrade. It was then I could no longer ignore the distance between how life looked and how it actually felt. That was the beginning of a different path. I began studying psychology and training in Gestalt psychotherapy. I entered marriage, became a father, and eventually went through a painful divorce — a chapter that brought my deepest wounds fully into view. What followed was one of the hardest periods of my life: a fight for my daughter, a fight for truth, and a fight not to disappear inside suffering. That journey changed me — not through ideas, but through grief, responsibility, courage, and years of inner work. I completed my degree in psychology at the University of Singidunum, Belgrade, and qualified as a Gestalt psychotherapist through EAPTI-SEB — a European Accredited Psychotherapy Training Institute accredited by EAP and EAGT — completing 2050 hours of training across nine semesters. I have since worked over a decade in private practice with more than 1000 individuals, in English, with clients across Europe, the UK, the US, the Middle East and beyond. Today I am a father of two daughters and live in a grounded, honest relationship that continues to teach me about presence and genuine care. I know what it is to lose yourself in performance, pressure, and pain — and I know that it is possible to come back. That is the foundation of the work I do.