about me

I trained in Gestalt therapy through a five-and-a-half-year programme at the Riga Gestalt Institute. Alongside my core studies, I sought out the best, both in Latvia and beyond. I have had the privilege of learning from world-renowned figures in psychotherapy, among them Jean-Marie Robine (former head of the Gestalt Institute of France and founder of the Gestalt Association of France), Ruella Frank (New York Gestalt Institute), Sophia Verulashvili (head of the Gestalt Institute of Georgia and president of the European Gestalt Association), Lenny Ravich (former head of the Tel Aviv Gestalt Institute) and Peter Philippson (New York Gestalt Institute). I have also completed a specialization in group leadership at the Riga Gestalt Institute (2023–2024), and I am currently deepening my practice further through a new specialization in couples therapy.

The life I have lived before therapy is something I carry into every session. Nearly a decade in diplomacy, several years representing Latvian business interests in Poland, leading corporate communications for a Fortune 500 technology company, and years in media as a host, creator, and producer across topics as varied as politics, art, culture, psychology, and religion. And throughout all of it, people. 

I have had the rare privilege of meeting and working closely with people across every walk of life, from refugees to presidents.

At some point, looking back at the path I had walked — through music, diplomacy, business, and journalism — I realized I had been engaging with everything possible except myself. That was when I began my own therapy. I now have more than ten years of personal therapy behind me. The deeper I came to understand my own inner world, the more fascinated I became by people as such. And I knew that I did not want to keep this only for myself. I wanted to share it.

How deep, fascinating, and wonderful each a person is as a being! Each of us is like an entire world, where so much happens, where there is so much beauty, fascination, and uniqueness. It only needs to be discovered and appreciated. What I love most about psychotherapy is being present in the moment when another person discovers their own beauty, their value, their uniqueness.

I like the saying – to return to factory settings, to the "manufacturer's settings." I consider this my therapeutic calling – to help a person return to themselves, to their deepest essence. Unfortunately, in our lives, we receive a lot of trauma, experiences, wounds, and develop complexes. Because of this, we put ourselves in a kind of box  – this won't work, this is not allowed, I'm not good enough… All these statements are limiting! And most often, they simply aren't true. My experience shows that therapy is a path to a life whose boundaries are broader than we imagine, where it is easier and freer to breathe.

I would be honored if I may accompany you on this journey.