Dima is a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist with a psychoanalytic orientation who works primarily with adults and adolescents. She provides individual psychotherapy and psychological counseling, as well as crisis intervention. In her practice she helps her clients with anxiety and depressive symptoms, including panic attacks, sleep disturbances, intrusive or obsessive thoughts, fears, and emotional distress. She supports people who face difficulties in personal or professional relationships, communication challenges, and various life crises. In addition, she works with individuals seeking greater self-understanding, emotional balance, and personal development. She also has a professional experience with victims of violence and human trafficking, supporting them in coping with trauma and emotional distress.
Dima’s practice is grounded in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, which focuses on exploring unconscious processes, emotional patterns, and relational dynamics that shape a person’s inner life. She aims to create a safe, confidential, and supportive therapeutic environment where clients can freely explore their thoughts, emotions, and experiences through dialogue and reflection. This process helps clients develop greater self-awareness, emotional resilience, and more meaningful ways of relating to themselves and others. In her work, Dima is inspired by the possibility of being part of a client’s growth and inner development. She believes that small but meaningful psychological changes can gradually influence not only the individual’s life, but also the way people relate to others and to the world. She consults in Bulgarian.
Dima has been providing psychological counseling and psychotherapy services since 2011. Since 2020, she has been part of the team at the Center for Counseling, Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis Atelier Affect in Sofia. She has a Master’s Degree in Clinical Psychology – Psychoanalytic Perspective at New Bulgarian University in Sofia and Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv. She has also completed the first module of EMDR Therapy Training certified by the EMDR Europe Association. Her continuous professional development includes regular participation in certified seminars, trainings, and workshops related to psychoanalytic psychotherapy theories and techniques, psychological suffering and emotional difficulties, psychosomatic manifestations of illness, trauma-informed therapeutic approaches and EMDR therapy. She is certified to conduct crisis interventions and psychological group debriefings, particularly in situations involving traumatic or critical incidents. To maintain high professional standards, she regularly participates in individual and group supervision in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, as well as supervision related to her EMDR clinical work. She is a member of the Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy and the Bulgarian Psychological Society (Society of Psychologists in the Republic of Bulgaria).