Alexandra-Maria Iurian
Specialisations
Stress & Burnout
Anxiety
Self-Esteem
Relationships
Loneliness
Languages
English
Romanian
Methods
Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
Mindfulness
Hypnosis
Nervous System Regulation
Therapy types
Individual
Couples
EAP
Introduction
Hi, I'm Alexandra-Maria.
I've always been a traveler of the outside world, and of the inner one. I love to travel, but what pulls me in isn't the destination itself; it's what I discover along the way, the layer underneath what's visible in everyday life. That same instinct, to look past the surface, is what made me curious about people long before I became a psychologist.
Before I trained as a therapist, I spent years working in multicultural NGO settings across different countries, running individual and group sessions and designing workshops on stress and emotional regulation. That work put me face to face with people from completely different backgrounds, all circling the same thing: a gap between how put-together life looked from the outside, and how unsettled it actually felt on the inside.
What pulled me toward this profession specifically was realising we don't have to just talk about change from a distance, we can understand it, through neuroscience, and we can work with it directly, experientially. That's the part of therapy I find genuinely fascinating: watching insight turn into something a person can actually feel shift.
Today I work as a psychologist with expats and internationals, online and from Maastricht, in English and Romanian. Most of the people I sit with aren't in crisis, they're functioning, often well by outside standards, but they've been carrying something alone for a long time and they're tired of it. My clients often tell me it's the first time they haven't just understood their struggles intellectually, they've started to actually feel different in their day-to-day life.
About my approach
I work integratively, drawing on CBT, Schema Therapy, ACT, DBT, Clinical Hypnosis, and Nervous System Regulation, not applied as a fixed protocol, but chosen and combined based on what's actually going on for you.
When someone comes in overwhelmed, anxious, or stuck in their own head, I usually start with the body before the story. There's little point analysing a pattern while your nervous system is still in overdrive, so early sessions often focus on helping you regulate, so there's actual room to think and feel clearly. From there, we go underneath: with Schema Therapy in particular, we explore where these recurring patterns: over-giving, distrust, conflict avoidance, or repeatedly ending up with the same kind of partner first developed, so we can work at the root instead of managing the same symptoms every few weeks
A session with me isn't just conversation. Expect reflection, but also concrete, practical work you can carry into your week, this is deliberately experiential, not just talk therapy. I also work with couples, since a lot of what brings people to therapy doesn't live inside one person alone; it plays out between two people, in real time.
