Welcome / Introduction
Personal insight and self-awareness are the greatest assets anyone can have in order to achieve a fulfilling and balanced life. Learning these tools in therapy will help you break maladaptive coping styles as well as toxic patterns that might be holding you back. Through gaining this insight with the help of a professional, you can keep such issues from causing you and/or your enviroment psychological distress, and prevent them from possibly snowballing into a mental health disorder. Evidence-based therapy methods aim at helping you improve your psychological well-being.
I am an expat myself, and have been working as a certified Psychologist providing Psychological Counselling and/or therapy to those members of the English-speaking community, living in Hungary or abroad, who feel they might benefit from it. Furthermore, 15 years of living and working abroad as a therapist in many different countries has given me an international cultural fluency and a deep-rooted understanding into the types of difficulties strangers face in a foreign country. In well over a decade of running my own private practice I’ve learnt the vocabularies of all my world-citizen clients and therefore I’ll understand you 100% if you say to me, in therapy, words and phrases such as: feeling eachother; autosteam; ankshetty; Mehican girl; emfatty; I’m consequent; thaired; kinotherapy; bo; che; cleangie; jurley; unger; an estimable person; cementery; idear; happned; smashed potato and many more similar endearing internationalisms. Hungarians are of course also welcome, as I am a native speaker of both English and Hungarian.
I attend all required supervision and undertake Continued Professional Development. However, most importantly, I do this because I love my work, find it deeply rewarding and want to ensure my clients get the best help possible.
Worldwide client base so far
(marked in blue)Any country, any timezone
Education / Qualifications
- 2009-2013: Hungarian Association for Integrative Psychotherapy; course: Integrative Psychotherapy; qualification: Integrative Therapist
- 2007-2009: Pázmány Péter Catholic University - Piliscsaba, Hungary; course: Psychology; specialization: Clinical Psychology, Family Therapy and Psychology of Religion; qualification: Psychologist, M.A.
- 2005-2006: Liverpool Community College - Liverpool , United Kingdom; course: Person-Centred Psychotherapy; qualification: Level 2 Certificate in Counselling Concepts
- 2004-2007: Liverpool John Moores University - Liverpool, United Kingdom; course: Applied Psychology; qualification: Psychologist, BSc
Professional experience
| 2009 - Present | Fully licenced, running my own private practice in person in Budapest and internationally via videocall |
| 2009 - 2014 | Psychologist at FirstMed international medical centre; Kindergarten Psychologist at Under the Rainbow International Pre-school and Kindergarten; School Psychologist at a number of international schools; Co-author of research article on Art Therapy and Edvard Munch, for major American journal |
| 2009 | Under the supervision of Dr. József Gerevich, took part in the Hungarian validation and evaluation of the American DSM-IV Diagnostic Manual's assessment system: the SCID |
| 2009 | Vadaskert Children's Psychiatric Hospital, took part in the conducting of group therapy by guiding the personal development of 8 adolescent inpatients |
| 2008 - 2009 | Zöld Ág Nursery School, internship, worked as a Kindergarten Psychologist together with a Clinical Psychologist supervisor |
| 2008 | Nyírő Gyula Hospital - II. Psychiatric Unit, internship, carried out a case study |
| 2007 - 2008 | Szent János Hospital, Psychiatric Unit, internship, carried out a case study |
| 2005 | Carried out 3 case studies at Supported Housing Homeless Centre in Liverpool |
Professional interests
- Family and Couples Therapy
- Psychosomatics
- Health Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Psychology of Religion
Is it for me?
There can be many reasons which bring a person to Counselling or Psychotherapy.Anxiety
Difficulties with mood
Irrational fears
Bereavement and loss
Work related issues
Mental, physical and sexual abuse
Family problems
Relationship issues
Parenting issues
Life coaching
Communication problems
Body image problems
Learning problems
Post-traumatic stress
Life threatening illnessesv Lack of self-esteem and self-confidence
Agitated emotions
Traumas
Career coaching
Any other mental health challenges
About counselling and psychotherapy
Counselling psychologists help people recognise their strengths and resources to cope with their problems. They help people understand and take action on career and work problems and pay attention to how problems and people differ across life stages.
The psychological effects of experiences such as loss, war trauma, accidents, physical attacks, work stress, relationship difficulties, sexual abuse, family problems, emotional neglect during childhood and so on can be profound and will be affected not only by the severity of the experience itself but also by such things as a person's history of distressing events, learned ways of coping, differences in personality and temperament etc. Nonetheless, it is often very important to understand an individual person's distress in the context of his or her own history and experience, personal coping strategies and personality.
The benefits of psychotherapy besides the relief of symptoms are that patients report experiencing more satisfaction in their lives.
Availability on Skype
Reviews and feedback from past skype clients
CLIENT #1: I've followed my therapy sessions with Veronica via skype, which for me was a very convenient way of having these conversations. From the comfort of my own home, or any other peaceful place I preferred, I could have my sessions at any time. Through the webcam we still had the opportunity to see each other. For me I didn't feel that my sessions were missing the personal meetings. The skype conversations definitely brought me the therapy sessions I was looking for and it was easy to build up a connection with Veronica like this. For me being able to do these sessions from anywhere at any time, gave me a great flexibility and also the comfort I needed to speak openly from whatever place suited me best.
CLIENT #2: All my sessions with Veronica were done via Skype as I am living in Australia! At first I didn't know whether such an arrangement would work but before I decided to undertake therapy from her I checked whether it was normal practice to have sessions conducted remotely via apps like Skype. It is in fact not such an unusual practice to have sessions conducted via the web and one that can in many ways be better than a face to face meeting. For one I conducted the sessions with Veronica in various places. At home, at work, in the car, even outside on my patio. Being mobile meant that our sessions could be scheduled much more readily. At home I am very comfortable and was able to relax and focus well during each session. Also one see's each others faces clearly. My eyesight isn't the best but I felt very much connected to Veronica throughout our sessions because of the quality of the image and because the image filled my entire devices screen. One can have headphones on too and so Veronica's voice easily becomes the guiding focus. As such do the Skype sessions! They're awesome as well as Veronica! Just remember to have a fast connection.
CLIENT #3: I actually chose you because of the skype sessions. I was travelling a lot at the time, and it was so convinient that i could just "take you with me" everywhere i went. I didnt have to start over every time meeting a new psycologist, we could just continue where we left off. And i also liked that i didnt have to get out of the house. I could be in my safe surroundings and i didnt have to go anywhere after the sessions. It made the whole thing really safe - also the days that you dont want to leave the house.
CLIENT #4: I had only positive experiences on Skype sessions with Veronica. It was really convenient to have a session over Skype because it saved me the time and effort of travelling to meet her and also I could do the sessions in the comfort of my own home, while having a coffee or even a late night session, which was way easier to do from home than travel to meet Veronica in person. The Skype connection was good every time we talked, I felt like the therapy plan was staying on course and we were both focused and I have nothing negative to say about having the sessions via Skype.
CLIENT #5: The online sessions via Skype provided me with some flexibility in relation to timing and location. The sessions could be held in an familiar and comfortable environment at an convenient time. This made it easier for me to relax and to focus on the session. For me it did not make a difference to have a Skype session to a regular sessions. In the Skype session the therapist was able to address the important issues in the same way as in the regular session. Discussion took place as usual and progress was made.
CLIENT #6: I worked with Veronica having regular sessions in her office for a while and then switched to having our sessions on Skype. For me it felt more comfortable to be in my own environment, it helped me feel more free to express myself and to get into the topics easily. I felt no difference in the quality of the sessions, as Veronica is always professional and she didn't allow any interruptions or distractions to interfere.
CLIENT #7: I initially started having sessions with Veronica in Budapest in person. After moving away from Budapest, I took skype sessions with Veronica for a while and I didn't notice a very big difference from seeing her in person. She was still just as available, attentive and effective over skype as she was in her office in Budapest. I don't feel that our sessions were hindered in any way because I wasn't seeing her in person. Seeing Veronica in person was better, purely because she was physically present, but in terms of psychological development, I got exactly what I needed out of the skype sessions.