From the outside, everything is in place. Decisions are made. Problems are handled. Things move forward.
And yet, inside, it often feels different. A constant sense of pressure. A mind that doesn't really stop. An undercurrent of anxiety, even when there is no clear reason for it.
Over time, this becomes normal. Functioning replaces living. My work sits exactly in that space.
Evidence-based psychotherapy for those whose success relies on chronic anxiety, hyper-vigilance, and an unsustainably harsh inner critic.
For years, your ability to overthink, anticipate every worst-case scenario, and push through exhaustion has been your greatest professional asset. But you are using a survival mechanism to run your daily life — and it is costing you more than you know.
Most people don't realise they are dealing with a real psychological problem because they are still hitting their targets. The suffering is held in place by defence mechanisms — walls you built to succeed, which now keep you trapped.
The voice that turns every mistake into evidence and every setback into a final verdict. It enforces the rule that your value is strictly determined by your output, making guilt the default emotion the moment you try to rest.
You can articulate your childhood trauma, your triggers, and your blind spots with MBA-level precision — but it doesn't change your pain and anxiety. You are thinking about your feelings instead of actually experiencing them.
Work, optimisation, busyness. Action as a shield against what you feel when you finally slow down. The wall that makes stillness feel dangerous. And when you can't be productive, you hide in chores, games, videos, any type of activity.
Your brain treats everyday life as a threat landscape. You are constantly anticipating what will go wrong next, calling it "being prepared." Your mind notices every flaw, every mistake, every risk — and filters out the rest. Life passes while you are scanning for what's wrong with it. The result is a nervous system that never returns to baseline. It's always in high gear.
We cannot solve a thinking problem with more thinking. Standard talk therapy often fails because it just gives you more things to analyse.
My practice integrates Gestalt, ACT, CFT, and trauma-informed approaches — to move you out of your head and into integration.
The 3 a.m. thoughts still come, but they no longer throw you off track for hours.
Instead of automatic self-criticism, a pause appears. A split second where you actually get to decide how to treat yourself right now.
You can legitimately rest or take a break — without the background guilt or the obsessive itch to always "be doing something."
Anxiety stops being paralyzing. It turns into ordinary background noise that you can acknowledge, set aside, and keep moving forward.
Your ambition and intellect stay with you. But they are no longer weapons for self-destruction — now, they are simply your tools.
I've been where you are.
Before finding psychotherapy, I spent years running a production company, producing large-scale projects, and directing documentaries in a high-stakes, deadline-driven industry.
I know what it means to build a career on adrenaline and anxiety. I know the cost of the 200-metre tsunamis your imagination invents at 3 AM.
The shift happened when my company filmed a project featuring some of the leading psychologists in Moscow. Watching them work, I understood that a completely different way of living was possible. Not more successful on the outside — but grounded, alive, and free from chronic internal pressure.
I spent years dismantling my own walls.
What I bring into our work isn't just clinical theory applied from the outside. It's a deep, practical understanding of your world — because I have lived it.
I didn't read about high-functioning anxiety in a textbook. I lived it, dismantled it, and subsequently trained to help others do the same.
My first client came in 2015. Since then I have spent years in formal training across approaches I chose not because they were fashionable, but because they work for exactly this kind of problem.
The work is not quick. It requires honesty and a willingness to stay with things that are uncomfortable — not to endure them, but to transform them.
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A 45-minute structured session — not a sales pitch. We will map the specific patterns driving your internal pressure, identify which walls are holding you in place, and determine what could be done.
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