Michal Podraský
Psychologist & Counsellor
Psychologist, online, working in English and Czech. I'm interested in how you experience your own world, not how it looks from outside. You can bring whatever anything, and I'll stay with it.
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About me
People ask me how I work. The answer is that I'm interested in how you experience your own world. Not how it might be explained from outside, but how it makes sense to you. I find it fascinating how each person makes meaning of their own life, and that curiosity is what brought me to psychology. It's still the part of this work I enjoy most.
I studied psychology at the University of New York in Prague and I'm now training in the person-centred approach at the PCA Institut. Before that I spent five years as a social worker here, sitting with people on some of the hardest days of their lives. It taught me that what helps first is rarely a solution. It's someone staying in the room with you.
I'm Czech, I live in Prague, and I work online in English and Czech. You don't need to have a clear idea, or to know why you're coming. It's enough that something doesn't sit right while everything works on the surface. Many of the people I work with feel they've drifted from themselves, that their life has stopped making the sense it used to or simply went trough a hard time and need help standing back up. Everyone is welcomed here.
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Approach
I won't hand you ready answers, and I won't steer the conversation somewhere it isn't going. What I bring is steadiness. You can talk, think out loud, and work things out at your own pace, and I stay with what you bring.
A lot of people start by apologising for taking up space. You don't have to do that here. You can be honest, contradictory, in a bad mood, or not know what you want to talk about. Nothing you bring will be too much for me.
If something I say doesn't land, tell me and we'll look at it together. Most of what matters here builds slowly, through the relationship between us, and I'll be there for all of it.
A first session usually goes like this. You tell me what brought you, in whatever order it comes out. I ask questions, to understand rather than to assess. Near the end we'll talk about how to carry on, and if it feels right, we'll set a regular time.
I won't judge you and I won't push you towards quick answers. I'll stay with you while we find what actually matters. You won't be working it out alone.
Experience
Counselor at Terapie.cz since 2026
5 years of Social Work - Charity Czech Republic
Education
Master’s and Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology
University of New York in Prague
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
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