Angelina
psychologist · online, and in person in Belgrade
I've been practising for seven years. People usually come to me with anxiety, with difficult experiences from the past, and with relationships that have become hard.
How a session goes
You talk, I listen and ask questions. Sometimes I give back what's visible from the outside, since it usually isn't visible from within.
I don't sit in long silences waiting for you to work it out yourself. If I have something to say, I say it.
You can tell me when something doesn't suit you. Then we change it: the pace, the subject, the way we work.
On the relationship in therapy
What heals most in therapy is the relationship itself. I'm convinced of this from my own practice and from being a client: I always found it easier with people who spoke to me sincerely and didn't stand on their professional status.
When someone comes to a session, they're already showing a lot of vulnerability and trust. It seems right to me to answer in kind.
The questions we discuss almost never have single answers. The most interesting sessions are the ones where we go looking together.
If what you need is guidance and direction, I'll give that too — I have the knowledge. We stay on equal footing: two adults.
Sometimes I'll talk about my own experience or my own feelings, when it helps someone get through a hard state. In therapy this is called self-disclosure, and handled carefully it brings people close.
The first session
In the first session I ask a lot. I need to understand what we'd be working with, and to tell you honestly whether I'm taking it on.
It's for the same purpose on your side — to see how it feels to talk to me. If we're not a fit, that happens.
There's nothing to prepare.
About me
I love people. I'm genuinely interested in how a person is put together inside, and I only take on work when I feel warmth towards whoever is sitting across from me.
I'm a real person in sessions. I laugh, I'm surprised, sometimes I'm moved, sometimes I disagree. All of it carefully, and only as far as it's useful to you.
I want things to get easier for you. Your life is arranged the way you've arranged it, and I respect that. I can show you that it can be otherwise. The deciding is yours.
I know from my own life that it can get very dark. And I know that people come out of it.
I work in Russian and in English (B2, IELTS).
Training
Russian State University for the Humanities, psychology, 2014–2018.
Cognitive behavioural therapy — Association for CBT, 275 hours, 2022. Professional development, Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis, 100 hours, 2020.
Schema therapy — Moscow Institute of Schema Therapy, foundation level, 200 hours, 2025, plus modules with the Association for CBT, 2023.
CBT for couples — 114 hours, 2024, with further programmes on jealousy, infidelity and sex therapy for couples.
Eating disorders — 52 hours, 2022. ACT for eating disorders, 2022.
EMDR — EMD protocol, EMDR Europe, 2024. Flash technique, EMDR Association of Kazakhstan, 2025.
Further programmes with the Association for CBT: anxiety disorders, addictive behaviour, depressive disorders, REBT, the therapeutic relationship.
Feminist trauma therapy, 2024. Emigration and psychotherapy, 2023. Conference on neurodivergence, 2024. Facilitating peer support groups, 2023.
Member of the Association for CBT. I attend a peer supervision group and have been through my own therapy.
What people bring
- Anxiety, panic attacks, fears.
- Difficult and traumatic experiences.
- Relationships — with a partner, with family, with parents.
- Feelings that are hard to recognise and harder to express.
- Exhaustion from taking care of everyone except yourself.
- Questions about meaning and about your own choices.
- Eating disorders, within a CBT framework.
- Depressive episodes and some other conditions, alongside a doctor.
I work with couples. I work with neurodivergent people, including experience at the Zhiznenny Put foundation.
Who finds me
The people who find me tend to be close to me in spirit.
Most often they're women and queer people. For many of them it matters that they can speak openly, without picking their words or explaining the obvious.
I'm LGBTQ+ friendly and I look at things through a feminist lens. My pronouns are she/her.
Therapy is work for two. I bring knowledge and attention; you bring honesty and a willingness to change something.
How the work is structured
Rhythm. We agree on it together and change it when needed.
Formally: N times a week for K minutes, where 0 < N < 6 and 45 ≤ K ≤ 120.
Sometimes one session is enough. More often it's long work that ends with you not needing me.
Between sessions. You can message me. I'll support you and give you what you can use on your own.
Materials. I share everything we work through: diagrams, lists, things to read. If something is easier to show visually, I put it together after the session and send it over.
Homework. By agreement, always manageable. Sometimes it's a week of noticing one feeling.
Fees
- Online, 60 minutes
- €506,000 RSD
- Online, 90 minutes
- €708,000 RSD
- Couples, 90 minutes
- €17020,000 RSD
Payment accepted from Russian and international cards.
What people say
Clients most often write that it's easy to speak openly here, including about the things they usually keep quiet.
That the questions turn out to be precise, and things become clearer after them.
That the clarity holds in ordinary life, between sessions.
EMDR work with difficult memories gets its own mention: it's often the point after which a great deal changes.
People I finished working with sometimes come back after a while.
Getting started
Write a few lines about what brought you here.
It doesn't have to be well phrased. "I feel awful and I don't know why" is a normal way to start.