The Impact of People-Pleasing on Mental Health, Relationships, and Personal Fulfillment
People-pleasing refers to the tendency to prioritize others' needs, desires, and approval over one's own well-being and authenticity. While a natural inclination to be kind and helpful is often celebrated, people-pleasing goes beyond healthy boundaries, often leading...
How to stop seeking external validations
External validations Many of us are seeking external validations. We think we need it in order to feel better about ourselves or to be happy in our lives. But is it really true? Do you really need someone approving you as a person so you could be happier? When...
How to deal with guilt feeling?
WHAT IS GUILT? It isn’t always easy to understand what guilt is. In fact, guilt and shame are often confused with each other, though they’re distinct emotions. Guilt describes a sense of regret or responsibility that relates to actions taken. People may feel...
Therapy and alternative to antidepressants
This short article will be a bit different from the rest of my articles. I want to introduce you to something different…to an alternative... but before we get there, I will tell you a few things about myself and about the process of psychotherapy and mental health. As...
Learn how to understand and manage anger
Anger is very often perceived as something bad, but really whether the anger is ‘bad’ or ‘good’ depends on how we react and how we express this emotion throughout our behavior. Moreover, anger just like any other emotion is information. Anger in this manner informs us...
How to Change Fear into Motivation?
Fear has two meanings: Forget Everything And Run OR Face Everything And Rise. The choice is yours. It’s a given that fear is part of the human experience, but where does it come from and why does it sometimes dominate your life? How do some people navigate through the...
Mindfulness as a way to live your life!
The goal of mindfulness is to wake up to the inner workings of our mental, emotional, and physical processes. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness is the human ability to be fully present. To be aware of where we are and what we’re doing, and not overly reactive or...
Letting go as a way to improve your life
One of the hardest lessons in life is letting go. Whether it's guilt, anger, love, loss, or betrayal. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go. I am sure you have heard many times that you must let go of things, of your past, of your pain, of...
How to become more confident about yourself?
Confidence is a belief in oneself, the conviction that one has the ability to meet life's challenges and to succeed — and the willingness to act accordingly. Being confident requires a realistic sense of one’s capabilities and feeling secure in that knowledge....
Repetitive exposure of the stress response on our body is proven to lead to long-lasting psychological and physical health issues; these include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, anxiety, and depression. What is stress? Stress is the “psychological, physiological, and...
In this article, I will talk about the importance of self-care. The topic of self-care seems very popular these days but what exactly it means? I noticed that many of us will talk about self -care but actually will not be doing it or not really seeing the point of...
About Me
My name is Sylwia Kuchenna,
I am a qualified psychotherapist.
Psychotherapy is so much more for me than just work. It is my passion. Every client is special for me and equally important.
I am aware that each client is different, have different needs and their story is unique, this is why I am using an integrated style of therapy, which is a mix of various types of therapy (psychodynamic, humanistic, cognitive- behavioural (CBT), family systems and Gestalt).
This approach allows me to match the therapy to an individual client’s needs.