Catrinel Ștefan

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.