Jola Dzierżyńska

Good day! Dzień dobry! I graduated from SUNY University at Buffalo School of Social Work and since then, I have worked with clients with various mental health conditions in long-term and short-term therapy. I have experience working with clients in group & individual settings. Besides common approaches such as Cognitive & Dialectical Behavioral Therapies, I use Existential & Jungian perspectives to serve my clients. In reprocessing trauma, I use the Moral Injury Model, Schema Therapy approach complemented by Post-Traumatic Growth Model. Let’s not forget that humor, laughter, poetry…and silence could be quite effective therapeutic modalities, too! Oh, and I am not going to ask you the how are you feeling question multiple times in a session. Isn’t that refreshing? Now, it is my observation as your fellow human & a clinician, that there seems to be a wide-spread belief that changing our external conditions only, will result in living-happily-ever-after. Yet often, even when our external circumstances change for the better, the inside remains dissatisfied. Ever been there? Shortly after, we come back to our habitual way of expecting that the future will ‘bend’ to our liking by itself--without us ever making adjustments in selves. In therapy, I focus on facilitating taking an active way of engaging with one’s circumstances no matter what they might be rather than spectating life as it happens and seeking a meaning of it outside of ourselves. The inside handles the outside. Thanks for visiting, JD