About
I am a psychologist, therapist, suicidologist and Contextual Behavioral Science (CBS) supervisor.
My work focuses primarily on grief, traumatic and sudden loss, trauma, suicidal crises and suicide bereavement.
Alongside clinical practice, I supervise psychologists and therapists, teach and develop professional training, and collaborate with organisations working in mental health, bereavement, crisis intervention and trauma-informed care.
My primary clinical framework is Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), grounded in Contextual Behavioral Science and functional contextualism.
My Approach
Understanding behaviour in context
I am less interested in asking whether a thought, feeling or behaviour is simply ‘healthy’ or ‘unhealthy’ than in understanding what it is doing in a particular person's life, in a particular context.
This is especially important in grief, trauma and crisis.
Guilt may be painful, but it may also be an attempt to restore a sense of control after something irreversible has happened.
Rumination may keep a person trapped, but it may also organise contact with grief that otherwise feels impossible to approach.
Avoidance may narrow someone's life while, at the same time, making complete sense in the context in which it developed.
For me, understanding this function comes before trying to change the behaviour.
This functional and contextual perspective means that therapy is not primarily about removing difficult internal experiences.
It is about helping people develop greater psychological flexibility: the capacity to remain in contact with what is happening while gradually creating more room for actions that matter.
Therapy as a relational process
I understand psychological flexibility as something that develops not only within an individual, but also in relationship.
The therapeutic relationship is therefore not simply the setting in which therapy happens. It is part of the intervention itself.
I pay attention to what happens between therapist and client: moments of withdrawal, uncertainty, pressure, closeness, avoidance, protection and change.
I am interested in how both the client's and the therapist's behaviour may become organised around difficult experiences.
This perspective also informs the way I supervise clinicians.
The whole person, not only thoughts and words
People do not enter the therapy room as collections of thoughts and verbal narratives. They arrive as whole organisms.
For this reason, my work includes attention to embodied experience: changes in posture, breath, tension, movement, distance, orientation and the ways the body responds before an experience can necessarily be explained in words.
I use experiential work, perspective-taking and relational processes alongside functional analysis and case formulation.
Where useful, my practice also draws from Functional Analytic Psychotherapy (FAP), trauma-informed approaches and narrative and existential perspectives, while remaining grounded in Contextual Behavioral Science.
Working with complexity and uncertainty
Much of my clinical work takes place in contexts in which there is no simple intervention or clear answer: traumatic bereavement, suicide loss, crisis, family systems, multidisciplinary services and situations involving significant clinical responsibility.
I do not see formulation as a definitive explanation of a person.
I see it as an evolving hypothesis.
We ask what may be happening, intervene on that basis, observe what changes, and allow the person's response to refine our understanding.
Curiosity before certainty, function before form, and context before judgement are central to both my clinical work and my supervision practice.
Professional Practice
My work combines clinical practice, supervision, professional education and collaboration with organisations.
eMOCja – Centre for Holistic Support After Loss
Psychologist · Bereavement support
I provide psychological support to people experiencing bereavement, including sudden, traumatic and suicide loss, and work therapeutically with bereaved individuals and families.
Pomorze Dzieciom Children's Hospice
Psychologist · Family support
I collaborate with the hospice in supporting children and families experiencing serious illness, loss and complex psychosocial circumstances, often within wider multidisciplinary and institutional systems.
Centre for Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies
Psychologist · ACT therapist
I provide individual psychological therapy grounded primarily in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Contextual Behavioral Science.
Akademia ACT
Trainer · CBS Supervisor
I teach and supervise psychologists and therapists developing their clinical practice in ACT and Contextual Behavioral Science.
Supervision of my own practice
My clinical and supervisory work is regularly supervised.
I consider ongoing supervision an essential part of responsible psychological practice — not only when difficulties arise, but as a continuing process of examining clinical decisions, therapeutic relationships, my own responses as a clinician, and the contexts in which I work.
This is particularly important in work involving trauma, suicide, bereavement and complex systems, where uncertainty and clinical responsibility are often inherent to the work.
Professional Memberships & Affiliations
- Association for Contextual Behavioral Science (ACBS)Member
- ACBS Polska — Polish Chapter of the Association for Contextual Behavioral ScienceMember