I offer individual consultations, during which you can share your story with me.
I cannot offer you quick solutions. Loss and grief are not problems to be solved. They are deep human experiences that can be carried and embraced. I can support you on your way to meet these experiences with tenderness and acceptance, maybe even with love.
What I can do for you is this: Give you my full attention and listen to you without judgement. As a fellow human being, I am truly and sincerely interested in what you are going through. Only if you want, I will share with you my knowledge, experience and personal point of view.
We can meet personally in Warsaw, Wrocław or online. My regular fee is 250 zł / 60 Euro per hour. However, acknowledging different situations of financial access, I use a sliding scale between 250 and 180 zł per hour. You choose which amount is adequate for you and your current possibilities.
It is important to me that nobody is excluded because of financial reasons. If money is an issue, please don’t hesitate to contact me and we will try to find a good solution.
For individual sessions please contact me by EMAIL.
You can contact me if:
- You have been diagnosed with a terminal illness or have become conscious of your mortality in another way. You might be looking for ways to consciously experience and shape the rest of your life, take care of your legacy, say goodbye to loved ones or plan your funeral.
- Your friend or family member is dying. You might be looking for information about the dying process in order to be able to take good care of them and also of yourself in this intense time.
- Your friend or family member has died. You might be looking for companionship, guidance and information about the grieving process to better understand what you are going through and to find a good place for the deceased person in your life.
- You have experienced loss many years ago and are now ready to face it. You might be looking for ways to honor the deceased person and consciously integrate them into the story of your life.
- Your loss is not acknowledged by others. You might be mourning the death of a pet, a child during pregnancy or a loss that is not related to physical death.
- You simply want or need to share your feelings and thoughts about death but don’t have anybody to talk to.
OPINIONS
“After my Dad’s tragic death, when I was struggling with both grief and overwhelming guilt, a few conversations with Anja brought me relief. She created a space where I could grieve without judgment, at my own pace. The personal farewell ritual we developed together helped me begin to come to terms with the loss. Her profound insights into how we take on the suffering of loved ones and carry it forward are still an anchor for me when waves of sadness and longing return. Anja accompanies suffering with a rare mindfulness – not trying to fix, but being present with the other person’s pain.”
Katarzyna Leville
“After my mother died, I felt as if everything had fallen apart inside me. I was among my loved ones, surrounded by care, loved – and yet inside I felt lost. I had the support of my friends, I was in a happy relationship. But the grief that was inside me was unbearable. It was something very deep, penetrating me through and through. It could not be silenced or expressed in ordinary words. I thought I would go mad, that I would lose my mind and would never be able to return to normal life.
That was when someone recommended Anja to me. That meeting really changed my path through grief. Anja was not a therapist or a friend. She was someone else – someone who understood grief as a phenomenon, knew it closely, had been observing it for years. She knew what everyday life looked like after a loss – on holidays, on birthdays, on an ordinary Monday. She could talk about rituals, about remembering, about how to create your own way of being with the one who had passed away.
Thanks to her, I found ways to keep my mother in my life – not only in pain, but also in the rhythm of everyday life. In conversations, symbols, small gestures. Grief became a path – full of pain, yes, but also meaning. Anja was an additional support for me. A presence that did not force anything, but understood everything.
If you are going through a loss – you do not have to be alone. Even if you have close ones around you, sometimes it is good to have someone who simply knows this path. For me, this person was Anja.”
Marek Rżewski
“In a terribly difficult time of grief, Anja was my rock. Even today, I find it hard to describe how much talking to her kept me alive. When I needed support – she supported me, when I needed silence – we were silent, when I needed solutions – she suggested them, gently. Tact, tenderness, warmth, wisdom and kind words – that’s Anja. Thank you.”
L.
“I came to Anja after my mother died, at a time when my body was clearly giving me signals demanding my attention, but it was difficult for me to connect with what I was really feeling. Thanks to meetings with Anja and the supportive rituals, I was able to take a fresh look at issues and emotions that seemed closed – open them up, touch them more deeply and arrange them in a greater order. A few years later, I returned for a session, because my body was calling again – quietly but clearly – that I had missed something. Thanks to conversations with Anja, I was able to take another step. Deepen my way of experiencing grief and understand myself better. I highly recommend meetings with Anja. She is an extremely empathetic person, deeply attentive to other people, open and present. You can talk about anything with her – without fear of judgement.”
Lesia Natalia Jaworowska
Anja was and is my grief counsellor and thanks to her I survived the first, worst and most intense period immediately after the loss. I feel that whenever it starts to hurt more or when new thoughts appear, I can come back and be heard, understood, soothed. An individual meeting is my safe place to feel the suffering after the loss, to remember the deceased loved one, without judgment or pretension, that it is enough that it was and is gone, without that characteristic holding of breath when you mention the deceased person in everyday conversation.
“Discovering the Institute of Good Death was groundbreaking for me. I had no idea that someone could think about death, dying, and the taboos associated with it in a similar way to me, that you can talk so normally about what is terrifying and what is inevitable, that you can tame death by changing the narrative around it.
I learned how I can maintain a bond with a beloved deceased and that it is not strange at all, but completely normal. That they have the right to hurt and that when it hurts too much, Anja will find time for me, and with her soothing voice she will tell me that it is normal that I feel this way, and together we will look for meaning in the senselessness of loss.”
Sylwana Dimtchev
“The meetings with Anja showed me that I can allow myself to grieve. They were a tender, empathetic support in struggling with suffering. Anja was not afraid to talk about difficult dreams, strange imaginations, painful experiences that came to me at that time. Her caring commitment, open imagination and gentleness made it easier for me to accept it all. Today, several years after my loss, I smile with serenity when I see the colorful tulips that I planted in the garden at Anja’s idea, in memory of my Beloved Person.”
Magda
“I worked with Anja, participating in individual sessions, after my adult son committed suicide. I am incredibly grateful for this care – full of empathy, compassion, and even, I would like to say, love – both for me and my son. During the sessions, Anja did not avoid difficult topics: despair, pain, complications of grief. She was present, attentive and acknowledged my grief in its full dimension.
She offered kind words of support, shared important stories and asked questions that opened me to new ways of experiencing grief. I understood that each of us needs a different, individual approach to experiencing grief. Thanks to this, we were able to design our own mourning rituals with family and friends.
Working with Anja had a domino effect: what I experienced in the sessions resonated with others who also lost a grandchild, a friend, an employee. I talked to Anja, shared memories, I could feel so much in her caring hands. Thanks to this, we could open up even more with our loved ones, talk, remember and support each other, acknowledge our suffering. I felt that this work benefited many. We learned not only how to grieve individually, but also how to support each other during difficult times.
Grief work is very intimate, in a close therapeutic relationship – which is why it is so important to whom we entrust our wounded hearts. Thank you, Anja.”
Agnieszka