Mihai Diaconescu

Feeling stuck in repeating relationship patterns, struggling with intimacy, or carrying anxiety or emotional pain that insight alone hasn’t resolved? Many people come to therapy after years of reflection, effort, or even previous therapy, yet something deeper still feels unresolved.

My work offers an existential, embodied, and relational space where we slow down and explore what lives beneath those patterns, so change can emerge not only in thought, but in how you experience yourself, your relationships, and your life.

My work is grounded in the understanding that our difficulties are not only cognitive, but are shaped by emotional and embodied lived experiences, attachment history, the relational and cultural contexts we inhabit, and how those experiences are held and expressed in the brain, the nervous system and the body. Early or overwhelming experiences can leave lasting imprints that influence how we feel, relate, and choose in the present. At the same time, therapy takes place firmly in the here and now, where new ways of perceiving reality, taking responsibility, and meeting ourselves and others can gradually emerge.

Alongside this work, I bring an engagement with spiritual inquiry, transpersonal psychology, and the integration of non-ordinary states of consciousness, including psychedelic-assisted therapy and integration contexts. My understanding is informed by contemplative traditions such as Buddhism and Tantric Kashmir Shaivism, as well as Abrahamic spiritual frameworks and shamanic traditions. I support clients in making sense of powerful or destabilising experiences without reducing them to pathology or inflating them with fixed meaning, focusing instead on careful integration into embodied, relational, and everyday life, with clarity, responsibility, and depth.

I work integratively, drawing on existential and humanistic psychology, somatic approaches, interpersonal neurobiology, internal family systems (IFS), and logotherapy. I have clinical experience working with anxiety, depression, trauma including PTSD and CPTSD, attachment and relationship difficulties, issues around intimacy, sexuality, and desire, as well as experiences of existential vacuum and meaninglessness.

My practice is inclusive of diverse identities across the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and a range of relationship structures, including polyamory and consensual ethical non-monogamy, as well as non-normative expressions of desire such as Kink and BDSM.

Therapy with me is collaborative and reflective. I aim to offer a grounded, non-judgemental space where complexity is welcomed rather than reduced, and where we can explore what is happening beneath habitual reactions. The focus is not on fixing or directing you, but on supporting greater inner safety, self-trust, authenticity, and freedom in how you live and relate.