Andrei-Raul Cojocaru
Specialisations
Anxiety
Relationships
Stress & Burnout
Depression
ADHD
Languages
English
Romanian
Methods
Cognitive Behavioural (CBT)
Acceptance and Commitment (ACT)
Mindfulness
Schema Therapy
Therapy types
Individual
Couples
EAP
Introduction
Hi, I’m Andrei-Raul.
I found it hard to stay connected to people I cared about, to build a healthy relationship, to socialize, and to let myself be seen, especially in an academic environment where I sometimes felt I had to tightly control how I was perceived. There were also periods when anxiety and overthinking made it very hard for me to make decisions. I could analyze the same situation from dozens of angles and keep circling back to it without ever feeling like I'd reached a point where it was enough.
That's how I started looking for answers.
At first, I looked where a lot of people probably do: online, at self-proclaimed saviors, gurus, and solutions promising fast change. I fell into a few of those traps too. But eventually, fortunately, I found my way to evidence-based psychology, to the idea that before trying to change something, it's worth understanding what's actually happening.
That's where my professional path began. I wanted to understand not just my own experience, but what we actually know scientifically. I trained in several evidence-based therapeutic approaches: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Schema Therapy, because each offers a different lens on the mechanisms that keep our difficulties in place, and on how we can build change.
Therapy isn't about becoming a perfect version of yourself, and it isn't about eliminating every difficult emotion. It's about getting to know yourself well enough that you can start choosing differently, instead of reacting on autopilot. And sometimes, changing a single scene can change the whole story.
About my approach
I work by integrating Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), and Schema Therapy, not as separate labels, but as different tools for different parts of the same scene.
CBT helps us understand the pattern as it shows up right now: which thoughts, emotions, and behaviors keep repeating, and what keeps them in place, here and today. ACT helps us make room for what's difficult, without getting stuck fighting our own emotions, and to move, step by step, toward what actually matters to you. Schema Therapy takes us deeper, to where the first "lines" of the script were written, early experiences and relationships that still shape how you react today.
A session with me usually looks like a conversation, not an interrogation, and not a lecture. I listen closely, ask questions, and we notice patterns together as they come up. Sometimes I'll ask you things that might push you slightly out of your comfort zone, because that's often where clarity shows up. There's room for hard conversations, but also for lighter moments, therapy doesn't have to feel heavy to be meaningful.
I don't see my role as telling you how to live your life, or as "fixing" you. I see it more as getting alongside you for a while, so you can understand more clearly what's happening in the scene, where certain lines you keep repeating came from, and what you might change, gradually, at your own pace.
This way of working might be a good fit for you if you want more than "quick advice", if you want to understand why you do what you do, not just stop a symptom, and if you're willing to look, with curiosity and without judgment, at patterns you may have been carrying for a long time.
