Mgr. Světlana Kozlová

Balanced Lifestyles Counselling in Prague offers professional help with:

• Anxiety, depression, acute stress, trauma and other sources of psychological suffering.
• Relationship problems: loss of an important relationship; consistent pattern of unsuccessful relationships; commitment-related issues; jealousy and trust issues.
• Marital crises: understanding and communication issues; being caught in a cycle of hostility, anger, fighting, verbal, emotional or physical abuse - or an equally traumatic and destructive pattern of conflict avoidance and emotional withdrawal; affairs and infidelity; psychological origin of sexual difficulties; impact of online behaviors.
• Separation and divorce: couples on the brink.
• Parenting challenges and parenting style disagreements, cultural differences in intercultural relationships.
• Unresolved family of origin issues: problems with parents, siblings, other important figures in your life.
• Infertility-related trauma.
• Loss, grief and bereavement.
• Major life-crisis concerns: "midlife crisis", employment-related crises, feeling uprooted, alienated and helpless in a strange culture.
• Identity issues; guilt- and shame-related suffering; reduced self-confidence; inability to be assertive and stand up for oneself; fear of conflict; inability to make decisions; feeling trapped in a particular predicament.
• Special emphasis on the so-called existential concerns: feeling empty; loss of sense of self; loss of hope and meaning, lacking direction in life, acute feelings of loneliness and isolation; death-related anxiety.
• Assistance in mediation and interpersonal-conflict management in situations where communication is essential for resolving vitally important issues, yet - for whatever reasons - the parties are unable to communicate successfully.

Although I was educated/trained primarily in existential-humanistic and psychodynamic  approaches, with additional training in cognitive-behavior and Gestalt techniques, in my practice I do not work strictly within a particular modality, but rather with individual client and his/her specific problem, or range of problems, using what I feel may best suit this particular person and the nature of his/her concern.