Hello, I’m Petra
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 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? 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)