Life Transitions

Life is full of transitions - some chosen, some unexpected. Moving to a new country, ending a relationship, changing careers, becoming a parent, retiring, losing someone you love. Each of these passages reshapes who you are, and that process can be both liberating and deeply unsettling.

Why transitions are hard

Even positive changes involve loss. When you move to Prague, you gain a new life but lose the familiarity of home. When you change careers, you gain possibility but lose a part of your identity. When someone dies, the loss is obvious - but even then, the full impact often reveals itself slowly, in unexpected ways.

Transitions challenge us because they disrupt our sense of self. The person you were before no longer quite fits, and the person you are becoming hasn't fully arrived. In that in-between space, anxiety, sadness, confusion, and self-doubt can flourish.

Finding yourself in the passage

In person-centred therapy, we honour the fact that transitions are not problems to be solved but experiences to be lived through - with awareness, with support, and at your own pace. Carl Rogers understood that people grow most when they feel safe enough to explore what is actually happening inside them, rather than what they think should be happening.

A steady presence in uncertain times

What I offer is simple but not easy to find: a relationship where you can be honest about how lost, scared, or overwhelmed you feel - without anyone trying to rush you toward resolution. Sometimes the most powerful thing is to have a witness to your process, someone who trusts that you will find your way, even when you can't see it yet.

I work in English, German, and French at my practice in Prague, as well as online. If you are navigating a life transition and would value a space to make sense of it, please reach out. The first step is often the hardest.