Grzegorz Zielinski

PSYCHOTHERAPY

Grzegorz has been in private practice as a psychotherapist since 2003, offering individual, relationship and couples psychotherapy. He works with people of all ages (from mid-teens), sexual orientation, cultural and ethnic backgrounds and religions. He works in both English or Polish, face-to-face and via Skype. Grzegorz also offers a specialised Short-Term Therapy for Motivation Issues program.

I perceive psychotherapy as an opportunity to discover that what happens to us has meaning. And that this discovery, assisted with skills, curiosity and support from a therapist, can show us how to express and live this meaning. Throughout my psychotherapy practice I have found the discovery of meaning and having a safe and supportive space to experience one’s own self, a big part of what makes psychotherapy so useful for many.

From 2003 to 2015 Grzegorz was working at the Poza Centrum – Psychotherapy and Coaching Centre in Warsaw, Poland. In October 2015 he moved to Melbourne and joined the Melbourne Processwork Centre. 

TRAINING

Grzegorz is a faculty member of  ANZPOP – Australia and New Zealand Process Oriented Psychology. He is also a faculty member and supervisor at the Institute for Process Oriented Psychology Poland, and a faculty member of the Process Work Institute of India.

Grzegorz also teaches Processwork and runs a variety of personal growth workshops. Prior to moving to Australia, he was a teacher of the two-year Certificate in Processwork Psychotherapy in Wrocław, Poland.

Grzegorz developed a series of workshops entitled the Psychology of Career and a short-term therapy model for people working on issues of motivation. He was also the co-developer of a specialised program about feedback, delivered in the organisational context (companies including Colliers, Saint-Gobain, and Motul), and as workshops and lectures open to the general public.

COACHING

Since 2012 Grzegorz has also been working as a coach using the unique Processwork Coaching model developed by Joanna Dulinska and Michał Duda from the Institute for Process Oriented Psychology in Poland. He achieved a Certificate in Process Oriented Coaching. Grzegorz also supervises students in the Polish coaching program.

I found coaching very exciting in the ways it differs from psychotherapy. In psychotherapy I am focused with my client on the here-and-now, exploring mainly difficulties and marginalisation. In coaching, the here-and-now and coachee’s experience is just one factor serving the main goal – to achieve the coachee’s project – to make actual, concrete change in the world. So we are constantly working between future and now, and between depth and surface behaviours, where the coachee-coach relationship is based on cooperation and teamwork.

Grzegorz also trains people in the Process-Oriented Coaching Program through MPWC, in conjunction with ANZPOP.