About me: Renata

About me

I know what it feels like to carry something heavy while appearing fine on the outside. That experience, and years of my own therapy, is part of what brought me to this work and part of what I bring into the room with you.

I’m Renata. I’m Hungarian-Indonesian, a mother of two, and I’ve lived between cultures and languages my whole life. I understand what it means to feel like you don’t quite fit the expected shape in relationships, in family, in life. That complexity informs how I work.

I trained in existential psychotherapy and counselling psychology and I’m genuinely interested in the whole of your life. Not just your symptoms, but how you make meaning, how you relate to others, and what you want your life to actually feel like. I’m influenced by psychoanalytic thinking, particularly Winnicott’s idea that some things need a safe enough space before they can begin to form into words. That’s what I try to offer.

I work with adults and couples. People come to me feeling stuck, anxious, unheard, or quietly overwhelmed. Over time they tend to get clearer about what they want, find their voice in relationships where they’d gone quiet, and start reaching toward things they’d stopped believing were possible.

I’m not here to fix you or hand you a toolkit. I’m here to think alongside you, carefully, honestly, and without judgment.

Training & credentials

I hold a BSc in Psychology from the University of Pécs, Hungary, and am in the final year of my doctoral training in Counselling Psychology and Existential Psychotherapy at the New School of Psychotherapy and Counselling and Middlesex University, London. I am a registered member of BACP and work within their ethical framework. My clinical experience spans frontline crisis support through to long-term individual and couples therapy.