What's behind grandeur — and how to navigate a relationship marked by it elenapap.com | Psychology Office, Constanța "I simply thought he was confident in himself. It was only years later that I understood that every conversation somehow came back to him — and that when I did something wrong, he was never forgiven, but...
When letters dance on the page — and what you, as a parent, can do elenapap.com | Psychology Office, Constanța "He has been struggling to read for three years, even though he knows the alphabet perfectly. Everyone told me he wasn't trying hard enough. But at home I would see him struggling for hours on a page that other children...
What's really behind the glass elenapap.com | Psychology Office, Constanța "Everyone was telling me to stop, as if it were simple. No one asked why I needed to stop something — they just asked why I wasn't stopping." Alcohol addiction is perhaps one of the most frequently judged...
When control over food becomes a struggle for emotional survival elenapap.com | Psychology Office, Constanța "Everyone only saw my changing body. No one asked what was going on in my mind, why I felt that if I gave up control there, everything would collapse." Anorexia nervosa is one of the most serious mental disorders…
Comfort, presence and dignity where words never reach elenapap.com | Psychology Office, Constanța "Many have asked me why I keep talking to him, why I play music for him, why I tell him about my day. 'He doesn't understand,' they told me. Maybe. But his breathing changes when my voice is warm. That's enough for…
Communication beyond words, dignity beyond diagnosis elenapap.com | Psychology Cabinet, Constanța „She doesn't talk. She'll probably never go to the bathroom alone. But she smiles when she hears my voice from the other room, before she sees me. That tells me everything I need to know — that she recognizes me, that she's waiting for me.” Severe intellectual disability…
Sustained support, small steps and a life built to suit the child "I knew from the early years that something was different about my son. He spoke less, he had a harder time learning the things that his brothers had picked up on the fly. The diagnosis didn't surprise me — but the question that followed scared me: and now, how do I…
The child who just needs a little more time and the right support "No one had noticed anything in kindergarten. In first grade, the teacher told me that my daughter was lagging behind in almost all subjects. I didn't understand why — at home she talked, played, seemed like a normal child. It wasn't until the psychological evaluation that I understood what...
Intellectual disability (known in the past under stigmatizing names that we have now eliminated from clinical language) is one of the most misunderstood diagnoses. There is a tendency to view it as a final sentence, a wall that the child will not be able to overcome.
When the mind forgets that the night is for rest elenapap.com | Psychology Cabinet, Constanța "I lie down in bed and my brain starts up. Thoughts, worries, scenarios. I stare at the ceiling for hours. And in the morning I wake up more tired than when I went to bed. For years." Insomnia is one of the most common complaints that people end up with...
Sexuality is one of the most deeply human dimensions of life—and, precisely because of that, one of the most vulnerable to everything we carry inside. Sexual dysfunction is not a failure, and it is not a sign that the relationship or person is „broken.”.
It is, most often, a message. A message about unprocessed stress, old wounds, unexpressed needs, or a relationship that needs attention. Therapy helps decode this message and build the conditions in which intimacy can once again become what it should be: a source of connection, pleasure, and safety.
Dyslalia is a disorder of articulation of speech sounds: the child omits, substitutes, distorts or inverts certain sounds, although hearing and intelligence are normal. It is not a disease. It is not mental retardation. It is not laziness. It is a specific difficulty in the coordination and control of the phonoarticulatory apparatus — that is, the lips, tongue, teeth, palate and the entire speech mechanism.