{"id":39521,"date":"2020-09-08T06:38:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/?p=39521"},"modified":"2020-09-08T07:26:36","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T05:26:36","slug":"veronika-podgorsek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/business\/education\/veronika-podgorsek\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Slovenian interview: dr. Veronika Podgor\u0161ek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Veronika, you are one of those women who wears many different hats in her life. From raising a big family, writing popular columns and books, giving lectures to being one of the most famous Slovenian psychotherapists who specialize in family and marital therapy. How does one juggle all of these roles?<\/strong><\/p>

Well, I have to say that they are all very connected and intertwined with each other. But the most important is that I love all of these rolls. Each hat as you said fulfills me in a different way and makes me a whole me, who I am. <\/p>

Could you tell us how you got into psychotherapy? Have you always wanted to help out couples or was there a different spark of interest? <\/strong><\/p>

Yes, it was actually. It all started with me. When I was young I really wanted to understand myself. Everything that was happening to me, directly or indirectly. I wanted to understand why I feel the way I feel, I wanted to know why I do things the way I do, I wanted to understand or get a dipper meaning of others doing things I could not possibly understand but causing me pain or any other emotion. Therefore everything started at the beginning where it should I know now. When I look back I see that I have always liked to reed mostly psychological type of books. That was really my point of interest. And with growing up I wanted more and more, therefore, I was going to study abroad. During university degree, I went for a year in Leuven, Belgium, and then when I was finishing my master’s degree in family and marital therapy I also entered and finished a two-year course specialization in Object relations theory and practice in Washington d.c., USA and my own therapy as a patient. I finished than also a Ph.D. and many other educational courses. Well, how then all that turned into becoming a writer and a therapist? J you can imagine, people were very much interested in my work, in my gained knowledge, wanted more and more \u2013 wanted to read my masters and Ph.D. theses, so here we come where I know and what I do. But, still, I do not really consider that I really help people… I give them what I know, what I have been taught by others, and all that I have gained through the years from my life and from observing other people in my private practice. At the end, they really need to help themselves and to be willing to be helped.  <\/p>

Like we mentioned earlier you have written 4 books about relationships. Could you walk us through the process of writing books? Where did you draw your inspiration from?<\/strong><\/p>

4 so far. One of them has been translated and will be published in Croatia at the beginning of 2021 as another two \u2013 new ones in Slovenia (one in the beginning of the new year another a few months later). All my inspiration comes from real life. I listen to the people what they are struggling with the most. And with the whole working years, I have had a great opportunity also to meet people and listen to really deep, deep stories \u2013 real relational stories. I use them for a dipper and bigger public understanding. That is what people need the most and they use these texts as a base for helping themselves. The whole process takes me at least a couple of years for one to write. At the end of the day, they are professional, educational books.<\/p>

We can imagine listening to other people\u2019s problems can be quite challenging at times even for a professional and experienced psychotherapist like yourself. How do you unwind after work and keep your professional life separate from your private? <\/strong><\/p>

I actually never do for real. This is my life. This is the way I am \u2013 it\u2019s me. I always think of my patients even when I do sports or anything else. But I do not do the therapy all the time. That\u2019s the most important. But, after all, relationships are so natural to human beings that we are all very much into it all the time.<\/p>

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