I am Elena, and I have packed my bags too

I was born in Ukraine and, like so many of the women I support today, at some point I packed my bags. I know what it is to build a new life far from home: learning another language, reading different cultural codes and, above all, doing it without your usual support network close by. The excitement of the beginning and, underneath, a tiredness that is hard to name.

Over time I understood something that changed the way I see things: very often the problem is not your partner, nor your children, nor you. It is a process of adaptation and sustained stress that no one has been able to put into words. The conflicts at home have an explanation, and what we understand can be transformed.

Why I support women and families

Major life changes —a migration, a move to another country, a change of stage— rarely affect just one person. They show up in the couple, in the children, in the atmosphere at home. That is why I work from a relational and family perspective: I am not looking for someone to blame, I am looking to understand the process you are going through and to help you regain balance, connection and a sense of harmony at home.

I mainly support women between 35 and 50, in a relationship or with a family, who after a major change feel exhausted, disconnected and with tension at home. They do not come for me to tell them what to do; they come to understand what is happening to them and to find a possible way forward.

An intercultural perspective

Having lived migration first-hand gives me a sensitivity that is not learned from books alone. I understand the silent grief of leaving a country behind, the juggling of holding two cultures at once and the loneliness of having no one to call on an ordinary Tuesday. That experience, combined with a strategic, systemic and Ericksonian methodology, is the foundation I work from: structured, goal-oriented and, at the same time, deeply human.