The quality of your life grows from the quality of your relationships.
First, the one you have with yourself. From there, the ones that shape your world.
For people who've poured themselves into building a life that works, and are ready to fully live it.
We are shaped by our relationships.
The ones that held us, the ones that didn't, and the ones we're trying to find our way back to.
That shaping lives in the body.
In how you attach, how you withdraw, how you learned to protect yourself before you had words for what was happening.
This is where the work begins.
I will hold what you bring.
I will be honest about what I see, and invite you towards growth.
You might find yourself here if…
You lead with competence as a safety mechanism. "Always on".
Not alone, but not met.
Same recurring argument with your partner. Same tension with people at work. Same tightening in your body. Exhausted by it all.
You're at the edge of a change that's been building for a long time. You feel the excitement and the dread.
You don’t want to do it alone.
People come to you for help in crises of all sizes.
You give freely.
Asking? You’d rather not deal with all that.
Something has gone quiet.
In your partnership, in your body, in your creative expression. You're tired of calling “fine” enough.
This work meets all of it.
We start where you are.
THE WORK
Experiential, somatic, whole-person approach, reaching what conversation alone cannot.
For people ready to change the relational patterns shaping their lives and their professional work.
1:1 COACHINGCome back to yourself.
You can name your patterns. They're still running. Because understanding isn't the same as contact.
We follow the signals; a tightening in the body, a story that keeps repeating. In your closest relationships, in a draining work dynamic, in the career transition that is calling you.
We name what we find and build a way forward you want to lean into.
Ongoing engagement · Somatic & experiential
COUPLES WORKGrowing a relationship that works.
The love is there. But so is the exhaustion. Same fight, different day. Reaching. Retreating. Growing distance.
Or it's past that. Something broke. You're not sure what's left.
But you're here, willing to try.
We go underneath what you argue about, to what's driving it.
We'll meet the pattern, work with what each of you brings to it, and build skills for truth, repair, and closeness with room for both of you.
Intensive & ongoing · Relational & experiential
What led me here
Relating is an intricate dance. We experience it through the body, through language, through everything language can't reach.
I grew up in Croatia, lived across three countries, speak a few languages. From early on, I learned to read a room; how different people form connection, where the alliance lives, what gets left unsaid.
That attunement ran through fifteen years in tech; leading transformation at SAP Concur and Asana, growing startups, designing systems meant to hold the complexity of organizations and the people inside them.
Underneath it, a question I couldn't stop asking:
How do we relate from the core of who we are? Truthfully and compassionately, while living in complexity.
Eventually the question got louder than the work I’ve built around it. I followed it directly.
The way we relate to others is inseparable from the way we relate to ourselves. The blueprint is embedded within. In this work, we follow those signals; a sensation in the body, a story that keeps repeating, a pattern you can name but can't shift.
Something shifts when people feel genuinely met. Not just understood; met.
This is active, somatic, relational work. It asks something of you. And it gives something back.
Together, we keep moving towards the resonance of truth.
We explore what's right in our first conversation.
Training:
- MA, Mindfulness-Based
Transpersonal Counseling
- Institute for Relational Intimacy
- Relational Life Therapy (in progress)
“I cannot recommend Petra enough. She guided me through some of the most difficult moments of my life; processing and coping with the loss of my father, and finding my way back to feeling like myself again.
Petra has an incredible ability to create safety and connection. There were times I felt completely overwhelmed at the beginning of our sessions, and by the end, I could breathe again. She has this way of helping you feel seen, held, and able to move forward.”
— T.F.Have questions?
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