<aside> 🌻 Welcome! My name is Klara and I'm a Level 2 IFS practitioner* and coach, trained by the IFS Institute US and Somatic Experiencing International®(currently completing my certification under supervision).

Are we a good match?

Most of my clients are creatives from all walks of life. A look around my website and my reviews should give you a good feel for who I am, but I will start by sharing that I love what I do.

I'm passionate about supporting people on their personal growth journeys. After more than a decade of doing my own inner work (safely guided in a therapeutical setting), I felt a strong calling to expand my expertise and share with others the transformative gifts I'd received. This led me to embark on a beautiful 6+ year journey of learning and expansion—one for which I feel immensely grateful.

IFS offered me the joy and privilege to discover (or rather remember) that each and every person has the capacity to tap into their own Self, this eternal source of compassion and loving kindness. I work with clients who are also eager to reconnect to the wisdom of their bodies and their innate self-energy and power.

****Throughout my personal journey, I've worked with therapists and coaches trained in diverse modalities that helped me explore and connect with different parts of myself: Psychodynamic therapy, Somatic Experiencing, Hakomi, Internal Family Systems, Feldenkreis, The Wheel of Consent, Nonviolent Communication, Neuro-affective touch, ACT Therapy, Intuitive Drawing Art-therapy, Psychodrama and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

Prior to my professional reconversion, I’ve dedicated myself to creating spaces that sustain harmonious human connections - working as an architect, designer and university teacher. Ever since the early '80s, my favorite activity has been Play. My inner parts make unique connections—I craft silver jewelry from bike hex-key sets and transform shrunken wool sweaters into toys for children who draw for me. I create paper-cut models to teach kids about our architectural heritage. Some might call these "product design."

The journey of being human is so fascinating to me!

FAQ

** Convinced that a practitioner can only take a client as far as they themselves have travelled, I “walk the talk” and will continue to do so: over 250+ hours of my own personal therapy in IFS and 75+ hrs in SE™, with certified trauma-informed professionals.*
For legal reasons, please note, Klara is not a counselor or psychotherapist. </aside>

In all, there were three things: the certainty one is always beginning, the certainty one must go further, and the certainty that one will be interrupted before finishing.

From the interruptions, to make a new path, from falling, a dance step, from fear, a ladder from dream, a bridge, from search...the Encounter.

— Fernando Pessoa (translated by Cecilia Ramon and Sheila Packa)

What motivates me

I am a strong believer in the power of humanistic education and have been an academic teacher for almost a decade, mentoring students in architectural design. Social justice, privilege, integrity are some of the topics that I have been passionately learning about. And I want to contribute to building a world in which every person is truly valued, encouraged and supported to thrive. My approach is informed by somatic parts work, conscious intimacy, authentic relating and inherited trans-generational trauma healing practices.

The following people and their teachings have been significantly influential in my life**:** Betty Martin, Richard Schwartz, Janina Fisher, Ruth Cohn, Peter Levine, Pete Walker, Bessel van der Kolk, Deb Dana, Linda Thai, Emily Nagoski. I’m very grateful for having had the chance to meet and learn directly from most of them.

I live in Cluj, Romania. When I'm not working, I love spending time with my friends - chatting in the sun, taking long forest baths, dancing, swimming or simply purring at life, just like my furry cats🐈‍⬛

RELEVANT QUALIFICATIONS

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Nuance & Attunement in the IFS Model (Stephanie Mitchell
Global IFS Consultation Group (Sue Richmond, LCSW IFSI)
Creating IFS Healing Circles® Intro (Chris Burris, IFSI US)
IFS Level 2 IFIO® Intimacy From the Inside Out (John Palmer, IFSI US)
IFSI Institute - Certification Path (IFSI US)
IFS Skills and Supervision Group (dr. Alexia Rothman, PESI)
IFS Intuitive Drawing Foundations (Ruth Culver, UK)
IFS Level 1 Internal Family Systems® (Einat Bronstein, IFSI US)
SE™ Somatic Experiencing Professional Training, Intermediate level (Liane Pinto)
IFS and Spirituality without Bypassing (Lisa Rankin, R.Schwartz)
IFS Integrative Somatic Parts Work Certification (Fran Booth)
Integrating IFS with NVC (Ruud Banders)
NVC Facilitator training (CNV Romania)
HAKOMI Introductory & Foundations (Halko Weiss)
NVC Foundations training (Henri Wai)
Life coach Certification, Babeș Bolyai University Cluj
University Teacher - Architectural Design, UTCluj
High School Teacher - Interior Design, Art School 2007
Educational Psychology and Sociology, UTCluj
MA Degree in Architecture and Urban Planning, UTCluj 2004
Visual Arts & Graphic Design, Art School 1997 </aside>

TRAININGS, SPECIALISED COURSES, WORKSHOPS

I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.

―Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)