The psychologist
Agnes Csaba
My approach is warm, compassionate and accepting. I believe that every person has a unique story, and that a safe, trusting counselling relationship is the ground for meaningful change.
In our work together I help you understand yourself, your emotions and your relationships more clearly, and find new ways of meeting the difficulties you are carrying. I do not promise a cure, or a result in a set number of sessions.
I have worked with expats and international communities for more than fifteen years, and I have lived abroad for long stretches in several countries. I know the excitement of building a life in a new culture — and the uncertainty, loneliness and search for belonging that can come with it.
Whether you are going through a difficult period, trying to understand yourself better, or standing in a major life change: counselling can be a place to pause, and to find a way forward.
Working with children and parents
I lived abroad as a child in two countries, so I know first-hand what it is to be a foreigner. As an adult I have accompanied international families in Hungary for fifteen years. As a mother of three, I also know how joyful — and how heavy — parenting can feel.
Parents know their children best. Still, there are seasons when another professional view helps. I love the honest, playful world of children, and I especially enjoy adolescents — their thinking, their resistance, their push for a self. I look for tools that fit this child, not a method in the abstract. When I see a child, I also work with the parents, so that as the child’s situation eases, the relationship at home can feel lighter too.
Professional path
I first trained in Business Management at the International Business School in Budapest, then worked as a Relocation Specialist with families arriving from all over the world. That work is why I later became a psychologist: I had already sat with the practical and emotional weight of starting again in a new country.
I obtained my diploma in Psychology — Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology — at Károli Gáspár University. At the Pedagogical Advisory Service I offered counselling and expert examinations for children with behavioural, emotional and learning difficulties. I am a qualified Complex Integrative Child Therapist, and I am currently training as a Schema Consultant. I volunteered in the Yelon programme of the Hintalovon Children’s Rights Foundation with young people aged 10–18, and I completed the Foundation’s training in children’s rights and child protection. I work under professional supervision.
How I name this work
I use the title psychologist. I do not use the protected titles psychotherapist or clinical specialist psychologist. This practice offers private psychological counselling — not emergency care, and not a medical service. If you are in crisis, call 116-123 or 112.
Qualifications
- Psychology (Developmental and Clinical Child Psychology), Károli Gáspár University
- Qualified Complex Integrative Child Therapist
- Schema Consultant — in training
- Business Management, International Business School Budapest
- Children’s Rights and Child Protection, Hintalovon Foundation
- Work under professional supervision
