When Love Feels Too Good to Be True: The Wounded Inner Child’s Search for Safety
Sometimes, even in the healthiest of relationships, people find themselves searching for cracks in the foundation. They pick fights over minor issues, overanalyze their partner’s every word, or doubt the love being offered. To outsiders, it may seem irrational: Why...
How to Change Fear into Motivation?
Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run OR Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours. It’s a given that fear is part of the human experience, but where does it come from and why does it sometimes dominate your life? How do some people navigate through the...
Mindfulness as a way to live your life!
The goal of mindfulness is to wake up to the inner workings of our mental, emotional, and physical processes. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is the human ability to be fully present. To be aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or...
Letting go as a way to improve your life
One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it's guilt, anger, love, loss, or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go. I am sure you have heard many times that you must let go of things, of your past, of your pain, of...
How to become more confident about yourself?
Confidence is a belief in oneself, the conviction that one has the ability to meet life's challenges and to succeed — and the willingness to act accordingly. Being confident requires a realistic sense of one’s capabilities and feeling secure in that knowledge....
Repetitive exposure of the stress response on our body is proven to lead to long-lasting psychological and physical health issues; these include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, anxiety, and depression. What is stress? Stress is the “psychological, physiological, and...
In this article, I will talk about the importance of self-care. The topic of self-care seems very popular these days but what exactly it means? I noticed that many of us will talk about self -care but actually will not be doing it or not really seeing the point of...
I must admit that I wasn't sure if it is a good idea to write about ethics regarding therapeutic work. In general, the topic of ethics is very wide and broad. However, I feel that professional ethics are absolutely crucial, especially in the field of psychotherapy....
WHAT IS SELF-HARM? Self-harm is when someone deliberately hurts, cuts, or injures themselves. For some people, self-harm is a way of coping with difficult or overwhelming feelings. Many people self- harm as a coping mechanism to deal with intense or difficult...
Traumatic events are common, and most people will experience at least once during their lives. WHAT IS TRAUMA? Trauma is the experience of severe psychological distress following any terrible or life-threatening event. Trauma survivors may develop emotional...
There is no right or wrong way to grieve, but there are healthy ways to deal with the grieving process. WHAT IS GRIEF? Grief is a normal response to loss. It’s the emotional distress you feel when something or someone you love is gone. Often, the pain of loss you can...
About Me
My name is Sylwia Kuchenna,
I am a qualified psychotherapist.
Psychotherapy is so much more for me than just work. It is my passion. Every client is special for me and equally important.
I am aware that each client is different, have different needs and their story is unique, this is why I am using an integrated style of therapy, which is a mix of various types of therapy (psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive- behavioural (CBT), family systems and Gestalt).
This approach allows me to match the therapy to an individual client’s needs.