About my approach
Therapy is a space where you can explore, with care and without pressure, what is happening within you. It helps to make visible how earlier experiences, familiar protective mechanisms and unconscious reactions influence what you feel, choose and do today.
The aim of therapy is not to offer quick advice, but to help you understand yourself more deeply — your experiences and the inner patterns that may be shaping your choices, relationships and quality of life.
My approach
In my work, I bring together psychosocial therapy and a Jungian analytical perspective. In our sessions, we explore not only the situation itself, but also the inner response it triggers: fear, shame, guilt, anger, the expectation of rejection, a need for control or the habit of making yourself agreeable to others.
Gradually, you can begin to understand their own reactions more clearly and gains greater freedom in how they respond to what happens around them.
Gradually, you can begin to understand their own reactions more clearly and gains greater freedom in how they respond to what happens around them.
How I work
I do not work with fixed templates. Every person is unique and comes with their own story.
In therapy, we begin with what matters to you right now. That may be a concrete situation, an emotional state, a conflict, fatigue, anxiety, loneliness, difficulties in relationships or the feeling that your usual ways of coping no longer work.
My role is to tailor the support within a framework and pace that suit you and your current situation. In my practice, I combine psychosocial therapy with Jungian analytical psychology, including work with symbols, dreams, images and active imagination.
My role is to tailor the support within a framework and pace that suit you and your current situation. In my practice, I combine psychosocial therapy with Jungian analytical psychology, including work with symbols, dreams, images and active imagination.
methods
What is Psychosocial therapy?
Psychosocial therapy helps people navigate emotional, personal and interpersonal difficulties that arise in daily life: in relationships, family, work, migration, times of crisis, uncertainty or inner tension.
It looks not only at inner experience, but also at the broader life context: environment, personal history, social roles, demands, relationships and the circumstances in which a person finds themselves.
The central question is the central question is not only "What is happening to me?" but also how this connects to one's life, relationships, choices, boundaries and ways of relating to others.
It looks not only at inner experience, but also at the broader life context: environment, personal history, social roles, demands, relationships and the circumstances in which a person finds themselves.
The central question is the central question is not only "What is happening to me?" but also how this connects to one's life, relationships, choices, boundaries and ways of relating to others.
Relationships
Life context
Crises
What is Jungian psychology?
Jungian psychology looks at the human being as more than a collection of symptoms or problems. This approach focuses on unconscious processes, inner conflicts, recurring patterns, dreams, symbols and those parts of the personality that may have been suppressed, unheard or insufficiently developed.
According to Jung, difficult life phases may be not only a disruption of equilibrium, but also a signal of inner transformation. Sometimes a crisis reveals that an earlier way of living, choosing, loving, enduring or adapting no longer works.
Within the Jungian approach, the question is not only: "How can the symptom disappear?" but also: "What is this state trying to communicate?" This way of looking helps not only to reduce tension, but also to understand oneself more deeply and to find a more coherent way of living.
According to Jung, difficult life phases may be not only a disruption of equilibrium, but also a signal of inner transformation. Sometimes a crisis reveals that an earlier way of living, choosing, loving, enduring or adapting no longer works.
Within the Jungian approach, the question is not only: "How can the symptom disappear?" but also: "What is this state trying to communicate?" This way of looking helps not only to reduce tension, but also to understand oneself more deeply and to find a more coherent way of living.
Unconscious
Symbols and dreams
Integrity
Dreams, symbols and active imagination
Dreams, images, and symbols can form an important part of therapeutic work. Sometimes a person may not yet be able to articulate what is happening inwardly, while the psyche is already expressing it through dreams, recurring images, fantasies, strong reactions, or bodily sensations.
Dream work does not follow fixed or universal frameworks. It is neither prediction nor the application of ready-made interpretations. Rather, it is an exploration of images guided by your own associations, feelings, life situation, and the inner process unfolding at that moment.
Active imagination can be used as a form of attentive inner dialogue with the images, feelings, and figures that emerge in the psyche. It is not about fantasising for its own sake, but about carefully exploring unconscious material.
Dream work does not follow fixed or universal frameworks. It is neither prediction nor the application of ready-made interpretations. Rather, it is an exploration of images guided by your own associations, feelings, life situation, and the inner process unfolding at that moment.
Active imagination can be used as a form of attentive inner dialogue with the images, feelings, and figures that emerge in the psyche. It is not about fantasising for its own sake, but about carefully exploring unconscious material.
What can you come to therapy with?
You are welcome to come to therapy if you experience anxiety, emotional tension, fatigue, inner restlessness, or a sense of instability — or if things are becoming increasingly difficult inwardly, even while you continue to manage daily life on the outside.
You may also come with:
Life crises, loss of meaning, migration, or major life changes.
Life crises, loss of meaning, migration, or major life changes.
Recurring life patterns and inner conflicts.
Relationship difficulties, loneliness, or challenges in setting and maintaining boundaries.
Dreams, symbols, and experiences that are difficult to explain rationally.
What happens in the first session?
During the first session, we take time to explore what has brought you to therapy, what is happening in your life right now, and what kind of support may suit you.
You do not need to have your question perfectly formulated in advance. Sometimes, it is enough to begin with what feels difficult, burdensome, or unclear at this moment.
You do not need to have your question perfectly formulated in advance. Sometimes, it is enough to begin with what feels difficult, burdensome, or unclear at this moment.
In person
Sessions take place in a practice space in the centre of Amsterdam. The exact location is confirmed during the initial phone call.
Online
Suitable for people living in another city or country, travelling frequently, or who prefer to work from the familiarity of their own surroundings.
50 minutes
Sessions last 50 minutes and usually take place weekly, or at another frequency agreed together.
Languages
Russian, Dutch and English.
Frequently asked questions
If inner tension, anxiety, relationship difficulties, or recurring patterns are beginning to interfere with your life, that is already a sufficient reason to arrange a first session.
During the initial consultation, you can calmly discuss what has brought you to therapy and explore whether this way of working feels like a good fit for you.
During the initial consultation, you can calmly discuss what has brought you to therapy and explore whether this way of working feels like a good fit for you.
Therapy is a process, and its length cannot be determined precisely in advance. In-depth work takes time and usually benefits from regular sessions.
During the first session, we discuss what brings you to therapy and consider what frequency of sessions may suit you.
During the first session, we discuss what brings you to therapy and consider what frequency of sessions may suit you.
No special preparation is needed. You are welcome to come with whatever is occupying you most right now — whatever feels difficult, unsettling, or creates inner tension.
If there is a dream, image, situation, or recurring theme you would like to explore, you are welcome to bring that too.
If there is a dream, image, situation, or recurring theme you would like to explore, you are welcome to bring that too.
Yes, online consultations are available. This format can be a good option if you are based in another city or country, or if your schedule makes it difficult to meet in person. The main thing is to find a quiet space where you will not be interrupted and where you can speak freely.
"Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full."
— Carl Gustav Jung
"Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full."
— Carl Gustav Jung
Sometimes change begins with a single step.
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Practice space in central Amsterdam
Anvida Therapiepraktijk B.V.
Struisgras 27
1441 WC Purmerend
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 623 000 851
info@anvidatherapie.nl
KvK: 86 621 149
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Anvida Therapiepraktijk B.V.
Struisgras 27
1441 WC Purmerend
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 623 000 851
info@anvidatherapie.nl
KvK: 86 621 149
NL864025476B01
Confidentiality
Privacy Policy
© All Rights Reserved