Vladimir Zujovic
Counsellor
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About me
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 — 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 built 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 — 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.
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Approach
I work as a Private Therapeutic Mentor — not a neutral presence, and not a standard therapist. I do not sit back and reflect your experience back to you. I enter the work as a full person, and I expect the same from you.
My work is depth-oriented, relational, and precise. I work at the level of structure — the deeper patterns that shape how a person relates to themselves, to others, and to the pressure they carry. I work primarily with high-performing individuals: people who appear capable and composed on the outside, yet carry a quiet inner exhaustion, disconnection, or a persistent sense that something important is missing.
I am especially attuned to shame — not the obvious kind, but the subtle, subterranean variety that organises a person's inner life without their awareness. Shame is usually the deepest structure of a false self. It shows up as the relentless drive to prove oneself, the inability to rest, the gap between who one appears to be and who one actually feels like. My work is designed to make it visible — and to change it at the root.
Grounded in Gestalt psychotherapy, my approach is experiential and present-centred. Rather than only analysing the past, we pay close attention to what is alive right now — in your body, your emotions, your relational patterns — so that old structures can be encountered and genuinely transformed.
My style is direct and precise. I will meet you with full attention — but I will also be honest when honesty is what is needed. The goal is not relief from discomfort alone, but a real encounter with what is false — so that what is true can finally have space to exist.
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