Catrinel Ștefan
Psychologist & Psychotherapist
I am a psychotherapist, trained in Transactional Analysis, with 8 years of practice, working in English and Romanian with adults navigating identity shifts, life transitions, inherited family patterns, or trauma.
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About me
I specialise in identity, attachment, transgenerational patterns, complex PTSD, shame, and anxiety. Many of the people I work with carry things they did not choose: inherited responses to family silences, repeated ruptures, or emotional strategies that once kept them safe but now limit their sense of self. Others come to therapy in the middle of a relocation, a role change, or a cultural shift that has quietly destabilised who they thought they were.
Clients often arrive feeling stuck in relational patterns they cannot explain, ashamed of responses that once protected them, or uncertain who they are outside the roles they have carried for family, work, or migration. Some have done therapy before and want work that goes deeper. Others are beginning for the first time and want to be taken seriously, at a pace that respects what they have already survived.
You have carried what you carried for a reason. I take that seriously.
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Media Gallery
Approach
My work is grounded in Transactional Analysis, which gives me a precise relational framework for the Parent-Adult-Child patterns that shape how we think, feel, and relate. I pace the work carefully, particularly around trauma, so therapy feels containing rather than overwhelming. You are never pushed further or faster than feels right.
I work online in English and Romanian with clients across Europe and worldwide. I have worked with expats and cross-cultural clients, and I am particularly at home with adults rethinking inherited identities. Sessions are 50 minutes. I offer a free 20 minute introductory call so you can decide whether we are the right fit before committing.
Therapy with me is a space to understand what shaped you, develop self-compassion, and create room to choose differently.
Experience
Work Experience
Psychotherapist Private Practice — Catrinel Stefan (Nov 2018 – present)
Child Psychotherapist Seeding Knowledge (Mar 2018 – Jul 2019)
Psychotherapist Filia Center (Aug 2020)
Education
Education & Training
Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology Universitatea Ecologică din București (2022 – 2024)
Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology Faculty of Psychology and Educational Studies, University of Bucharest (2006 – 2009)
Certificate of Practice Under Supervision ARAT — Romanian Association of Transactional Analysis (2015 – 2019)
Certificate of Free Practice College of Psychologists of Romania (2018 – present)
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
Individual Session
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