Ana Schmidt

Therapist Directory Listing Category: Psychotherapists and Counsellors

About the Therapist

About the therapist:

I completed my bachelor’s degree in psychology at the Faculty of Arts in Maribor, after which, to further my psychoanalytic and psychotherapeutic knowledge, I decided to study for a Master's degree in psychology with a clinical focus at the International Psychoanalytic University (IPU) in Berlin. Since 2021, I have been in a postgraduate training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy at the Slovenian Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (SDPP) - In 2025, I completed the four-year theoretical component of my professional training and am currently continuing with supervised clinical practice. In parallel, I work as a psychological counsellor at the POSVET Centre for Psychological Counselling. I have a private practice in which I provide psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adults under the supervision of training analysts (International Psychoanalytic Association, IPA).

Sexual identity:

Other

Gender identity: I use another term

Gender history: Prefer not to say

Intersex: No

Neurodivergent: No

Qualifications - Links to websites:

2021 - today - Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, postgraduate training

Slovenian Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (SDPP); European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (EFPP).

2019 - Master of Psychology with a clinical focus (MA)

International Psychoanalytic University Berlin, Germany.

2017 - Bachelor of Psychology (BA)

Faculty of Arts, University of Maribor, Slovenia.

Qualifications - Additional:

Award	Awarding body	Year of award

Experience and approach:

The basis of my approach is exploring different aspects of oneself as a unique individual and one’s life as a whole. This includes your distinct history and development and an attempt to better understand how that might have influenced your present way of being and living.

At times, we may be unaware of the beliefs and fears influencing how we see and live in the world, they may be unconscious and become deeply ingrained and automatic. This can lead to repeating harmful behaviours, feeling trapped in unhappy relationships, and impeding our emotional, creative, and professional growth.

Because many of the symptoms, personality traits and attitudinal patterns have been building for years and persist (are chronic) they can only be changed step by step. Exploring unconscious content and processing it in relationships thus takes time takes time, courage, trust and patience.

I view my work as accompanying individuals on a path of self-exploration, widening and deepening the inner space of feeling and understanding of oneself, others and life in general.

I provide psychotherapy to individuals experiencing a variety of different symptoms or difficulties, including going through major life transitions, existential problems including death anxiety, problems of freedom and search for meaning, relationship issues, the experience of trauma, depression, worrying and anxiety, stress and burnout.

Each psychotherapeutic process differs in content, frequency of sessions, and duration. After a few initial meetings, we decide together whether and how to continue our work together, including the goals of the treatment, the frequency of sessions, and the duration of the process.

Approaches: