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 relationships.
The ones that held us, the ones that didn't, and the ones we're still finding our way through.
That shaping lives in how you connect, how you withdraw, and how you learned to
keep yourself safe before you had words for what was happening.
You might have been in therapy.
Read the books. Done the workshops.
You know your patterns intellectually, and find yourself still inside them.
And you are still longing for a different way.
Your work begins where your capacity has reached its current limit.
I will hold what you bring.
I will be honest about what I see.
We'll move at your pace, toward the change you are longing for.
You might find yourself here if…
You can't quite let your success in.
Excellence has become your baseline.
There is always more to do, and a next thing to get to.
You're the one others come to.
You're the one you turn to.
Letting yourself fully know, let alone ask for what you need, is beyond your reach.
You're at the edge of a change that's been building.
You don't fully know toward what.
You can feel the dread underneath the excitement.
You move between worlds; cultures, identities, languages, contexts. The navigating is exhausting and mostly invisible. You've gotten good at translating yourself. You are tired of it.
This is where we begin.
THE WORK
Experiential, somatic, relational.
For people navigating the patterns that shape how they connect, lead, grieve, and grow.
However complex, however layered.
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, a pattern playing out in every relationship.
We meet them where they live.
We name what we find clearly, carefully, and build a way forward you want to lean into.
Ongoing engagement · Somatic & experiential
Sessions are 60 minutes. Fee: $275 per session.
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RELATIONAL WORKGrowing a relationship that works.
The commitment is there. But so is the exhaustion. Same block, 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.
Together, we'll go underneath the disconnect, to what's driving it. We'll meet the pattern, and work with what each of you brings to it. We'll build a way forward that honors your shared reality, tends to the relationship between you, and creates new ground to grow from.
Intensive & ongoing · Relational & experiential
Sessions are 75 or 90 minutes. Fee varies by format.
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Couples, co-founders, and adult family members
Free 30 minute consultation call.
What led me here
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.
We are shaped by relationship and change inside it.
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 connect with what is most true for you.
We explore what's right in our first conversation.
I grew up in Croatia, lived across three countries, speak a few languages.
From early on, I learned to feel for what's happening between people; how they form connection, where the alliance lives, and what hasn't been named yet.
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?
How do we honor the truth of who we're becoming, and the truth of what's leaving, from the inside out?
Eventually the question got louder than the work I’ve built around it. I followed it directly.
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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