My story

For as long as I can remember, I've been curious about human nature.

In high school I dreamed of working with people's inner worlds. Somehow, my dream of becoming a psychiatrist turned into a degree in management engineering.

For a long stretch of my life, I did what I was supposed to do and became who I was supposed to be. For years I listened to the voices outside rather than paying attention to my own leanings and the voices within. Management Engineering at İTÜ, nineteen years in business analysis and information systems, getting to know the cultures of nearly twenty companies from the inside, working with teams on four continents, a global management role at Coca-Cola… I can't say I didn't like those years. That's where I learned to read people and systems.

In my mid-thirties, just when everything looked the way it should, I noticed a fierce restlessness inside me. “So this is life? Is this all there is?” Beneath the picture of a good, successful life, my sense of meaning had slipped away before I even noticed. I felt stuck.

I decided to take that question seriously. I trained as a coach, learned from many schools of thought, and worked with my first clients while still in my corporate job. At the start of 2018, I changed direction completely.

Making room for every voice

Since then, I've chosen to listen to all the voices inside me, the ones I like and the ones I don't. After more than fifteen hundred hours of one-to-one coaching and dozens of groups and workshops, I came to a crossroads: a path that would give me a title, or one that would deepen my craft? I chose the second.

Today I'm in the third year of the Macedonian Gestalt Therapy Association's four-year programme, adding psychology and therapy to my coaching. I'm an ICF-accredited coaching supervisor (CSS) and offer individual and group supervision to coaches. With groups, I work with Deep Democracy, a method that lets every voice be heard, including the minority ones, and helps conflict turn into shared wisdom; I'm a Lewis Deep Democracy practitioner and accredited Shift EQ instructor. My favourite moment in a group is when people truly see each other.

What life has taught me

And life kept on teaching. As a working mother, I knew that never-ending guilt, the work of making room for my son's growing world, and the moments when his values collided with mine. In my early forties I came to know the fragility of a menopause that arrived earlier than expected, right alongside the pandemic, and the calm that followed. I love my crow's feet; they're signs that I've lived and laughed a lot.

There has always been a part of me that won't fit in the box. Squeezing into a box on an org chart was always hard for me. My first love was music; I played an instrument. At thirty-five I asked again the question I'd asked at five, “why am I not dancing?”, and then I danced for years. These days it's physical theatre. I practise yoga, and I'm drawn to ancient teachings.

Whatever I've learned about life, I've learned from people's quirks. The more time I spent with what seemed strange to me, the more I noticed a part of it in myself too; and I became more able to accept both myself and others as they are.

Today

My specialities are the Gestalt and Deep Democracy approaches.

With Gestalt, I work with individuals. I accompany people who are getting by in life, more or less, but feel something is missing, or who have got stuck somewhere. Much of what we call “my shortcomings, my mistakes” were once our ways of adapting to life; they're simply waiting to be updated.

With Deep Democracy, I work with groups: teams, families, communities, young people. A group, just like a person, holds many voices, and the trouble is often knotted in the voice that goes unspoken. I work to make the unspoken speakable, to bring the minority voice into the room as well, and to turn tension into a teacher we can grow with. Not running from conflict, but leaning into it and getting creative: that's how I support growth, moment by moment.

I don't offer treatment, and as I don't have a degree in psychology, I don't call myself a therapist. When I think it's needed, I refer clients on.

A life where you feel at ease inside is possible. I know this not only from my training, but from my own life.

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Key training

1. OngoingGestalt Therapy TrainingMacedonian Gestalt Therapy Association, 4-year programme (3rd year)
2. 2026Diploma in Coaching SUPER-VisionThe Sandton Coaching Centre and Coaching Bridge, 150 hours
3. 2025Shift EQ Instructor TrainingLewis Deep Democracy
4. 2024Certificate in Coaching Super-VisionCoaching Supervision Consultancy and Coaching Bridge, 36 hours
5. 2022–2023Life-Oriented Leadership (Y.O.L.) Programme with Nonviolent CommunicationNonviolent Communication Türkiye, 10 days
6. 2022Introduction to Nonviolent CommunicationNonviolent Communication Türkiye, 8 hours
7. 2021–2022Gestalt Personal Development Programmewith Nita Scherler
8. 2020Yoga Teacher TrainingHara Yoga – Balat
9. 2019Art Therapy Certificate ProgrammeHaliç University Continuing Education Centre, 120 hours
10. 2018ORSC: Organization and Relationship Systems CoachingCRR Global, 72 hours
11. 2018Gestalt Coaching ProgramGestalt Center for Coaching
12. 2016Gestalt Groupworks: Working with Groups and TeamsGestalt Center for Coaching, 44 hours
13. 2004Communication and Sales with Transactional Analysis3 days

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