Milena Nenkova / Systemic Family Therapist and Supervisor

Life brought me to Boryana 2.5 years ago in its mysterious ways, when I was looking for a therapist to work with after losing my mother, during a very difficult moment in my personal journey.

In my experience of Boryana as a therapist she is a gentle and delicate person with a warm and natural demeanor. She senses the fine movements of emotions, both visible and invisible, and skillfully reflects and contextualizes them, allowing them to be fully felt, honored, and accepted. I also feel Boryana as a caring and highly responsive person, with a steady pace and a solid connection to reality.

Working with Boryana has been a deeply intensive process of discovering and enhancing my sense of self in my physicality, emotionality, wholeness, and connectedness. Over time, I have come to see my resources and the traps I fall into due to early conditioning from primary relationships through а different angle. The effects of our sessions often resonate in the following days, sparking my creative energy for writing, drawing and composing.
In my meetings with Boryana, by feeling myself more and by allowing to be felt by another being, I touched upon and explored the most important themes in my life in new ways - through the perspective of the nervous system's functioning and the profound bodily intelligence, which I am grateful to have accessed and understood better.

As a result of the process, I managed to navigate the difficult states surrounding my big loss, overcome a persistent addiction, increased my tolerance for various types and intensities of emotions, understood my body's language better, and learned different self-regulation techniques for emotionally intense and challenging moments, which I practice on my own when needed. This significantly developed my capacity to stay present, benefiting me both personally and professionally.

As a colleague, I can also see and appreciate Boryana's sense of structure, timing, and transition in our sessions, as well as her adept handling of transference in the therapeutic process. I feel equally well-guided by her both when experiencing intense emotional states as well as when entering the session without any specific initial topic. This brings me a sense of security and stability in our shared experience, making everything that is present completely welcome.

Starting this therapeutic process was one of the best decisions I've made, and I consider it as a meaningful investment in the most valuable asset in my life – myself.

I highly recommend working with Boryana to those brave enough to deepen their self-awareness and self-experience with the rare gift of a genuine, heartfelt connection that transforms beyond words.

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