Awareness in itself is healing. (F.Perls)

Can you imagine a space that gives the answers you are longing for? A place with so much hidden knowledge yet full of meaning? What if that place is within yourself?

Own Path

I am Adina (she/her) and since September 2021 I’m following the Gestalt Counsellor/Therapist training with the Gestalt Therapy Institute in The Netherlands. My first professional specialisation is in the area of digital cultural heritage. This path was guided by my love for words, books and inclusive educational spaces – in particular libraries. With the current learning experience I am expanding my focus and area of experitise to the actual relational aspect of human interactions. I am fascinated by the capacity of the human body to express and metabolise the daily life experiences and I am always in awe of young children’s curiosity and their contact with adults, their caregivers and the world around them. This has led me to follow trainings on yoga philosophy, adjusting and applying its teachings to children or to those that have suffered traumatic brain injury.

What I learned so far is that the same as libraries hold valuable resources when properly accessed add value to specific research, the human mind holds opportunities to unlock new perspectives and empower new approaches in life.

Currently, guided by the Gestalt counselling/therapy principles and practices of embodied relational awareness and inclusive dialogue in the present moment, I am offering counselling support to those looking to overcome challenging emotional experiences. To me change happens when there is space for committed presence that allows new layers of awareness to emerge, in the here and now.

Contact is made in any actual present situation, the only moment in which experience and change are possible.

Whenever we think and talk of the past, our memories, regrets, resentments, grief, or nostalgia occur and are relevant right here and now, in the present. Whenever we talk about the future, we are fantasizing, planning, hoping, expecting, conspiring, looking forward to or dreading from where we are here and now, in the present situation.

Gestalt therapy is an existential, experiential and experimental approach which takes bearings from what is, not from what has been or what should be. No interpretation is necessary as we work with what is available in the actual present awarenss [..] and what becomes possible to experiment with through this ever-increasing awarenss.

(Laura Perls, co-founder of the Gestalt school of psychotherapy)

Gestalt Counselling

As of October 2023 I am providing Gestalt counselling/coaching sessions for adults that are looking to overcome challenging emotional experiences.

Through my training and lived experience I would best support you in struggles related to personal/ work relationships (such as burnout, anxiety, depression), exploring your relationship with yourself as well as navigating an expat/immigrant life or understanding the emotional aspects of chronic pain or medical trauma.

I’m fluent in 3 languages from native Romanian, professional English to intermediate Dutch and I understand several others – Spanish, French, Italian.

For the coming period the sessions:

  • are part of the Gestalt Counselling/ Therapy training I am following and are grounded on formal agreement between me, Gestalt Counsellor in training and you, client
  • charged with a reduced fee until July 2024 of €25,- (VAT extempt-KOR) per 1h session; starting September 2024 until June 2025, Gestalt counselling/therapy sessions will be offered at a new reduced fee of €45,- (VAT extempt-KOR) per 1h session
  • are to start with a bundle of 10 encounters (potential days Fridays and/or Saturdays, timeslots between 13-17pm or 18-20pm; I’m open to other days/times upon request
  • will be held in person at The Hague Natural Health Centre located on Badhuisstraat 224, 2584HN, The Hague, The Netherlands or online via a secure connection.

Interested to know more about how I can support you via my Gestalt counselling approach? You can reach out to me by email to: adina@thelibrarywithin.com or via the form below to plan a free of charge, 30 minutes introductory conversation. I aim to reply to messages within 48h.

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Lastly, I am registered associate student member of European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT membership number: C3633-23), I adhere to their code of ethics and I am committed to support you in your inner explorations and in the discovery of new horizons of your own life journey.

Concept and text by Adina Ciocoiu. Portrait by Wouter le Duc.

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