Maria Fedotova

My own history made me realize and feel how important it is to include the whole spectrum of feelings and your body into the healing process, to respect your own pace and treat yourself with empathy and love. I grew up in a country and family with highly hierarchical structures and a lot of trauma, came into a new country as a teenager and experienced massive changes later in my life due to external and internal reasons. So understanding my own patterns and encountering them with curiousity and love was my starting point. I later studied Business Education/Business Psychology, experienced different therapy approaches, learned a lot of approaches myself till my main focus became gestalt therapy and relationships.

Relationship quality sets the quality of our life, private as well as at work.

When we are born, we are wired to build a secure attachment. When our parents cannot offer us this experience – maybe because of their disease, the political or social situation in the country or their own experiences with their caregivers we learn some strategies which can sometimes have destructive impact later and separate ourselves from others.

The good news is that as grown-ups we are able to re-shape our relationship patterns when we feel that some of them do not work out well. My role is to support you in this process with empathy, deep listening and creative input when helpful.