Your head knows it. Your nervous system won't follow.
Psychological counselling for people who function on the outside and can no longer switch off inside.
My focus is nervous-system regulation, at the intersection of neuroscience and embodied practice. I work above all with self-employed people, founders and those in creative and academic fields.
Founder of Metanovia
You have understood it long ago. But understanding and changing happen on different levels: the mind grasps it, your nervous system speaks another language.
Online counselling
Individual psychological counselling online, grounded in established models, confidential. I work with people who understand a great deal about themselves and still don't get into action, because their nervous system won't come to rest.
Methods
Counselling approaches
Person-centred (Rogers) · Trauma-sensitive · Body-oriented · Mindfulness-based · Meaning-oriented
Informed by
IFS · Somatic Experiencing · Polyvagal theory · ACT · Schema therapy
Format
50 minutes over an encrypted video connection. We start with what is moving you right now, work with what shows up, and look at the end at what you take with you. Clear, calm, precise.
Fee
- 119 € · Standard
- 99 € · Reduced (for irregular income)
- 79 € · Solidarity (for a tight budget)
Per 50-minute session, including VAT. Free 30-minute intro call to find the fitting tier.
If this feels familiar
If one of these descriptions speaks to you, my work probably fits you.
You already understand a lot about yourself. But in daily life it doesn't land.
You have read the books, listened to the podcasts, maybe reflected with a chatbot. You understand how your nervous system works. And still you notice that your knowledge doesn't translate into your experience.
Together we take the step from understanding into experiencing.
You function. But you no longer really live.
On the outside everything runs. Inside, for months: a mind that won't switch off in the evening, an exhaustion that sleep doesn't quite reach, a diffuse tension. You function through your days and know something has to change, but not what exactly.
Together we understand what is happening in your nervous system, and find a way back to yourself that doesn't ask you to be strong in order to arrive.
You don't just want fewer symptoms. You want to come back to yourself.
You are reflective, professionally successful or on an ambitious path, and still a quiet restlessness remains, right in the middle of functioning, that asks: is this really mine?
Together we go to the substance: what are your real values? Where are you still adapting yourself away? And what does a life look like that actually sounds like you?
Change doesn't begin in the head.
I'm Ruslan. A psychologist (M.Sc.) with a specialisation in neuroscience and nervous-system regulation. I translate what you experience into the neurobiological mechanisms running underneath, because that is where lasting change begins. I work above all with self-employed people, founders and high-functioning people who function on the outside and struggle to switch off inside. I know this world not only from research, but from my own experience with pressure, uncertainty and the pulse of self-employment. Alongside this I am building Metanovia, with which I make psychological support more accessible.
For me, change is not an act of willpower but a question of context. Your nervous system doesn't change because you want it to. It changes when you repeatedly offer it a different state in which it feels safe enough to learn something new. My job is to build that context together with you.
Calisthenics has been a central part of my training for over ten years, I completed a yoga teacher training in Rishikesh, and breathwork and meditation are a firm part of my daily life. These are not hobbies next to my work as a psychologist, they are its foundation. I know in my own body how nervous-system regulation feels and what it takes for it to succeed.
What you experience in counselling
I listen and translate at the same time: what you experience, I map onto the neurobiological mechanisms behind it. That de-pathologises and takes out shame. You don't see yourself as a problem, but as a system that does what it does for good reasons. From there we take the step from understanding into experiencing, through body, breath and movement. Because change starts there, in the body, not only in understanding.
What you won't expect from me
I don't promise quick fixes. If you're looking for a new life in two sessions, I'm the wrong person. Nervous-system work takes time, not just technique.
I don't pathologise. You are not broken, not too sensitive, you have no deficit to be repaired. We work with the system you have, not against it.
I don't offer medical treatment. If you need a diagnosis, a prescription or the treatment of a clinical condition, I'm not the right contact. What I offer is psychological counselling and support on a neuroscientific basis.
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Membership in the BDP as a commitment to professional and ethical standards.
Performance and inner stability are not a contradiction.
Many high-functioning people believe they have to choose: success or inner calm. I'm convinced of the opposite. Those who understand and regulate their nervous system don't perform less, but more sustainably, more freely and with more meaning. This conviction carries everything I do, in my counselling and with Metanovia, with which I make psychological support more accessible.
Let's talk
Write to me for a free intro call or a counselling enquiry. I reply within 48 hours.