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Katarzyna Wach, a psychotherapist, Jungian analyst and founder of Trust Your Center (www.trustyourcenter.ch) a revelatory journey for women, inspired by her professional and personal working experiences. The Trust Your Center is a space for women to explore and discover what this journey, odyssey, or individuation process reveals uniquely for them. Also, how these journeys differ from those of other genders and people who do not identify with any gender.

While maintaining her private practice in Zurich, Katarzyna teaches and learns from students across Western and non-Western cultures. Her lectures and seminars designed for psychotherapists and analytical psychologists are interactive dialogues that integrate myths and bodywork. She focuses on helping women find pathways toward wholeness and restoration, not only on a personal level but also within the cultural collective. Her work challenges the dominant narrative in which the feminine body and psyche are defined by wounding. Instead, she emphasizes resilience, creativity, and regeneration. Katarzyna also looks at the politics of the body through the lens of gender, sexuality and race – determining factors for mental, physical and spiritual health. She explores what complexes are constellated around these themes, offering the opportunity for psychotherapists and analytical psychologists to honor together the feminine voice, foster healing, and create a more balanced, inclusive, and regenerative cultural narrative within analytical work.

She offers workshops for individuals, couples, and parents who want to grow individually, as a couple or as a family. Her couple therapy is open to all couples of every orientation. It is designed for those who wish to connect authentically, to understand the unconscious arrangement of their relationship. And, discover the beauty and possibility of growing thanks to the presence of the significant other, who often holds the most intimate heartfelt mirror to our psychological landscape.

Katarzyna is also a mother, and for her Tami Lynn Kent's words beautifully capture this experience by stating, "Mothering is a true spiritual path in that it will expand your spirit, make painfully visible your personal limitations, and bring some of the greatest heart-opening moments of bliss."

Katarzyna comes from a Slavic culture rich with archetypal images, including the Polish version of Baba Yaga, the Slavic witch whose energy carried Poland through historical upheavals, traumas, transformations, and healing processes. She grew up at a time when the memories of the World Wars, as well as the Holocaust, were still very present in the society and strongly impacted all generations. She also witnessed the transformation of society from communism to a democratic capitalism. This journey led her to study social psychology, seeking to understand the individual within a broader context. Expanding her studies further, she became a Jungian psychoanalyst, delving into the depths of the human psyche and body.

Her special interests lie mainly in the following fields:

• Feminine spirituality and feminist spiritual consciousness.
• Patriarchy and its influence on our feminine and masculine identities.
• Couple’s relationship dynamics.
• Awareness of the body and its non-verbal language in the psychotherapeutic setting, especially in our logos-centric culture.
• Various forms of expression (movement, painting, and writing) needed to engage the emotional life of a person.

Her therapeutic work interweaves expressive bodywork elements, particularly influenced by authentic movement, originally known as movement in depth or active imagination in movement. It allows our psyche to express itself in a beautiful way other than through words, which are often unable to utter all the truth that lies within us. It is based on the wisdom of our body. The moving person has her eyes closed and observes the sensations inside, she also gets to know herself through the non-judgmental witnessing of the other. Mary Starkes Whitehouse, creator of Authentic Movement used to say, that although we don't remember it, there was a time when our main language was movement. As adults, we often live in our heads, and the way back to the body can become so blurry that our bodies find creative, though often painful ways to call us home, sometimes through illness.

"The root of this work can be traced to the earliest human history when disease was seen as a loss of soul and dance was an integral part of the healing process." — Joan Chodorow

Education

Diploma in Analytical Psychology, 2017.
International School of Analytical Psychology Zurich — ISAP Zurich.

Diploma in Psychology, Social Psychology, 2007.
SWPS University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw.

Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration Management, 2002.
Jagiellonian University in Cracow.

Professional Experience

Private practice since 2014.

Psychiatric University Hospital Zurich PUK (“Burghölzli“), 2016.

Swiss Red Cross, Villa Vita, Outpatient Psychosocial Care in Zürich, 2014 - 2016.

Psychosomatic Rehabilitation Clinic Sonneneck in Badenweiler, 2013.

Other Professional Experience

Jungian Odyssey, an Annual Conference and Retreat in Analytical Psychology, 2012 & 2016-2022.

Katarzyna warmly invites you to visit her website for more information about her offerings and upcoming events:

www.katarzynawach.ch