Anna Bruk
Existential Counsellor
Sometimes life changes faster than we can catch up with it - a move, a new role, a loss, a question that won't go away. I offer a space where your experience can be heard, understood, and lived through at its own pace.
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About me
My name is Anna, and I am a certified psychotherapeutic counsellor and clinical psychologist.
I earned my master's degree in psychology from Moscow State University, followed by an internship at a developmental center for children. I later completed a full certification in existential psychotherapy at the Viennese School of Existential Analysis in Austria.
In my therapeutic work, I focus on each person's unique experience and bring awareness to their individual life situation. Every experience of anxiety, trauma, depression, or insecurity carries its own meaning for the person living through it. I offer a respectful and supportive space where that meaning can safely emerge and be explored at its own pace. Through this process, personal strengths and resources come to light and can be built upon - helping you move toward a more authentic, fulfilling life.
Having spent a decade in management and lived abroad for many years, I personally understand the emotional challenges that can arise through relocation, cultural adaptation, and navigating roles as a partner, parent, or professional. I work with adults and adolescents and also provide support to families.
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Location:
Media Gallery
Approach
Existential Analysis is a form of psychotherapy rooted in existential philosophy and decades of clinical practice. We work with what is difficult and no longer functions - anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, loss of direction - and we go further, toward the deeper conditions that allow a person to genuinely inhabit their own life. At the heart of this work is what in existential thought is called Zustimmung - inner consent: the felt sense of a genuine yes to the life I am living.
In addition to Existential Analysis, I may integrate experiential methods such as Mindfulness, EMDR, and Focusing. These approaches help deepen the connection between mind and body, offering access to emotions that may be difficult to reach through words alone. By tuning into bodily sensations and lived experience, you can process emotions more fully and find a deeper sense of grounding.
How we can work together:
Intro Call - Free · 20 min · Online
A short conversation to meet each other, hear what brings you to therapy, and see whether working together feels right.
Individual Session - €80 · 50 min · Online
An ongoing space to explore what you are living through - thoughts, feelings, and situations that ask for attention. We work in dialogue, at your pace, drawing on Existential Analysis and, where helpful, EMDR, mindfulness, and focusing.
Extended Session - €120 · 90 min · Online
A longer session for focused, in-depth work on a specific issue - a difficult decision, an acute situation, or a theme that needs more room than a standard session allows. Also suited for EMDR work.
Experience
Psychotherapist in private practice — online · since 2023
Individual therapy with adults and adolescents in English and Russian - anxiety, burnout, depression, expat life, and life transitions.
Counsellor / Psychotherapist - Thrive Mental Wellbeing (UK) · 2023–2026
Online psychotherapy with a broad range of clients and presenting concerns - from low mood and work-related stress to crisis states and complex life circumstances.
Psychologist - ESTER Center for Child Development · 2021–2022
Psychology Trainee - Psychiatric and Neurological Children's Hospital · 2020–2021
Coordinator - "Today I Help" Charitable Initiative · 2011–2019
Education
Psychotherapy Training
Diploma in Logotherapy and Existential Analysis - The Viennese School of Existential Analysis (method of Alfried Längle) · Austria/UK · 2021-2026
Full certification in existential-analytic psychotherapy, including supervised clinical practice.
Integrating Elements of EMDR into Existential-Analytic Work - training course with accredited GLE International trainers · 2023
Academic Background
MSc in Clinical Psychology - Moscow State University · 2019–2021
MSc in International Management - ESADE Business School, Spain · 2006–2008
BA in International Relations - St. Petersburg State University · 2000–2005
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
Extended Session (90 min)
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