Monika Sommerfeld-Matula – trainer:
In her breaks from therapeutic work, she sometimes translates Italian. Lately, she has been translating exclusively psychotherapeutic workshops, allowing her to be in live contact with Italian Gestalt masters (including Giovanni Salonia, Valeria Conte, Simona Landi). She learns from them not only theory, but also a specific approach to work – this has expanded her workshop enormously.
For her, the most important thing in her work is an authentic encounter with another human being, accompanying them in expanding their awareness of their needs, resources, deficits, unhealed wounds – so that they can go through life with a sense of security, fulfillment and access to their vitality.
In addition to her work, fulfillment comes from her relationships with relatives and friends, as well as contact with nature, art and literature. She relaxes by hiking in the mountains, lounging on a sea beach, soaking her feet in the current of a river, singing with a group of musical friends, cultivating her home garden, dancing, and practicing yoga.
She has a husband, Peter, and a son, Adam, whom she lists at the end, although they are at the center of her universe.
Monika Sommerfeld-Matula – Experience:
She is a certified Gestalt psychotherapist ( EAGT certified) and art therapist. She completed the holistic psychotherapy course at the School of Group Psychotherapists and Trainers at the Institute of Integral Gestalt Psychotherapy in Krakow, Poland, and the Postgraduate Course in Art Therapy at the Polish Erickson Institute in Lodz, Poland.
From 2017 to 2019, she worked as a group and individual psychotherapist at the General Psychiatric Day Care Unit and the Mental Health and Psychological Clinic of MKK Trimed in Lodz.
Since 2018. Monika Sommerfeld-Matula runs a psychotherapy practice in a private office in Lodz and online (in Polish and Italian). She works with adults in individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, couples therapy, provides parenting consultations, organizes developmental and art therapy workshops.