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...
A Simple Guide to Listening to Your Inner Wisdom
In the midst of our fast-paced lives, we often overlook the valuable source of guidance that resides within us - our inner wisdom. This inner wisdom is our intuitive and innate knowledge, often drowned out by the noise of external influences. Listening to your inner...
The Healing Power of Forgiveness: A Path to Freedom and Peace
Introduction Forgiveness is a deeply human and transformative act that holds the power to heal wounds, release burdens, and bring about profound inner peace. It is a complex and multifaceted concept that has been explored by philosophers, religious leaders, and...
How to overcome exercise blockages?
What is stopping people from joining the gym? How to overcome your own blockages? It seems that the majority of people know that exercising is very beneficial to your well-being, as exercising releases the serotonin hormone also called the mood stabilizer, it improves...
Grief as your spiritual teacher
It’s interesting to see that the topic of grief is still in some ways a taboo topic. People hate to talk about grief, emotions, and death. We feel very awkward talking or even thinking about grief because it makes us feel so uncomfortable. So, the ego mind will try to...
The Impact of Unresolved Trauma
Trauma is the most misunderstood, disregarded, ignored, overlooked, and mistreated of all mental suffering. But not only mental but also physical suffering. Unresolved trauma The results of unresolved and unhealed trauma can be very damaging. Trauma can influence your...
Healing your Inner Child
The phrase “inner child” is becoming more common and is being used more often. But what exactly is the Inner Child? The inner child is an archetype. It is a part of our personality that we need to look after in order to discover harmony, peace of mind and wholeness....
Understanding your Inner Child
When your Inner child is healthy The inner child is part of our psyche. We all have it as it is a part of our personality. The concept of the inner child is the core of our being, it influences our adult life, behaviours, beliefs and perceptions of ourselves and the...
How to have peace of mind
We all want to have peace of mind and to have a peaceful life. We look for peace everywhere but where should we actually look? We seek and hope that something external will make us at peace. We hope that some situations will magically make us peaceful. Let me give you...
My own journey with joining the gym.
I have recently shared an article about the benefits of exercising and how to overcome a blockage when thinking about joining the gym. Well, let me share with you my own bumpy road with exercising. Background Firstly, I believe it's important to mention that I...
Horizon – the place that makes the change
Recently I have been asked: “Sylwia, why did you open Horizon Mental Health Clinic?” Well, I said, "I opened Horizon because I wanted to help as many people as possible, I wanted to create a space where people could experience mental health services differently....
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.