Adults
For anxiety, depression, crises of meaning, loss, toxic relationships, life transitions, identity questions and concerns that cannot be solved through advice alone.
Ask about availabilityAnalytical psychotherapy, symbols and creativity – Online sessions or in person in Bucharest
Oana Dorneanu
I accompany you in a process of reconnecting with yourself through Jungian psychotherapy, dream work and creative forms of expression.
Where psychology meets imagination
We begin with what brings you to therapy and explore together what lies behind the difficulty.
In therapy, difficulties are not treated as defects that must be removed quickly. I see them as signals of a complex inner life: dreams, images, relationships, conflicts, the body, creativity and personal history.
Therapy room and creative materials
Psychotherapy, Jungian analysis, art therapy
Therapeutic work can begin in conversation, play, drawing or in contact with an image. Creative materials support a setting where what does not yet have enough words can begin to take form.
About me
I am Oana Dorneanu, a Jungian analytical psychotherapist and art therapist. I am an IAAP Router in the Router Training programme of the International Association for Analytical Psychology, a member of the Romanian College of Psychologists and a member of the Romanian Association for Analytical Psychology.
My training brings together analytical psychology, contemporary psychoanalytic thinking, art therapy, developmental psychology and work with adults, children and teenagers. I completed a master’s degree in Psychoanalysis, and before my clinical training I had a professional path in the corporate environment.
I co-founded the NGO EntuziArt with my colleagues. Through it, we develop projects dedicated to mental health and to people from disadvantaged communities. For me, creativity is not an ornament of therapy, but a language through which the unconscious can become visible. You can find more about the creative projects on arterapie.com.
Approach
For adults, children and teenagers
Each age has its own language. Sometimes it is conversation; sometimes it is play, drawing, the body, opposition, silence, a dream or a story.
Children and teenagers
For emotional difficulties, anxiety, adaptation to new life situations, school difficulties, parental separation, the loss of a family member, attachment and expression through play or drawing.
Request a first conversationDreams and active imagination
For people who want to understand dreams, recurring images, fantasy and symbolic life without mechanical interpretations.
See how we can workCreativity can speak when words are not enough
- drawing, painting, clay and spontaneous forms of expression
- work with images, fairy tales, myths and personal narratives
- exploring the body and emotions through symbol
- a frame suitable for children, teenagers and adults
Art therapy and expression
Creativity is a language of the psyche.
For some experiences, explanations arrive too soon or too late. An image, a drawing, a story, a form made of clay or symbolic play can set in motion something that the rational mind keeps blocked.
Creative work is not about artistic performance. It is a way to give form to an experience, to look at it and to discover what kind of relationship we can build with it.
Frequent themes
What we can work with together
Anxiety as a message
Not only reducing the symptom, but understanding what it is trying to protect or communicate.
Depression, loss and transformation
Exploring emptiness, withdrawal, grief and questions about meaning.
Toxic relationships
Projections, idealization, unavailable partners and conflicts that seem to return in different forms.
Identity and transitions
Moments when life asks for a more authentic inner position.
Articles
Texts that show the way I think and work
Essays on Jungian psychotherapy, dreams, the Shadow, projections, anxiety, development and healing through creativity. The articles are available in English and Romanian.
Family relationships
When Mother Looks in the Mirror
Read articleDreams
Why dreams matter in psychotherapy
Read articleShadow
What the Shadow really means in Jungian psychology
Read articleAnxiety
The messenger we try to silence
Read articleRelationships
Why we repeat relationships that hurt
Read articleEmigration
When a new culture touches old wounds
Read articleCreativity
How art expresses what words cannot say
Read articleDevelopment
What children’s drawings can reveal about their inner world
Read articleApproach
A way of looking more closely at what is happening inside
In therapy, we begin with what repeats, weighs on you or cannot yet be named clearly. We try to understand together the meaning of symptoms, relationships, images and the way the psyche seeks a form of balance.
Jungian approach
I look for the emotional logic beneath behaviour
Instead of forcing a diagnosis or a single explanation, we explore the function of the symptom, unconscious conflict, relational patterns and what is trying to emerge in your life.
Symbols and images
Dreams, drawings, fantasies and spontaneous images can show what is not yet available in words.
The Shadow
Rejected or shamed parts of the self can become a source of energy and truth when they are met carefully.
The therapeutic relationship
Transference, countertransference and the way relationships repeat help us understand how the past remains alive in the present.
Individuation
Therapy supports becoming: not a perfect version of the self, but one that is more whole, more conscious and more true.
Projects and collaborations
Experience in art therapy, community work and mental health
An important part of my practice has also grown through EntuziArt projects: expressive-creative interventions, exhibitions, programmes for children and collaborations with schools, NGOs, psychiatric hospitals and cultural institutions.
Emotion through Colour and Music
A psychotherapy, art therapy and music programme for pupils with special educational needs at the Sf. Nicolae Professional School in Bucharest.
Through the Mind’s Eye
Art therapy and dance therapy for blind and visually impaired people, with tactile works and the exhibition „A (Un)seen World”.
Mind Moving
A programme of art therapy, dance therapy and photo therapy in psychiatric hospitals, working in clinical and performative contexts.
OKAPI / Outsider Amnio Art
A project and exhibition about neurodiversity and art therapy, presented at Mobius Gallery and later in the ART IN/SANE context.
Expressive-creative practices for neurodiversity
A programme co-financed by ARCUB, dedicated to neurodivergent people and to those who support them.
Cognitive stimulation through creative methods
A contribution, together with a team of authors, to a programme and guide for cognitive stimulation for people with neurodegenerative disorders, through painting, drawing, collage, music, dance and virtual reality.
Frequently asked questions
A clear frame before depth
Sessions can take place in person, in the therapy room, or online, and last 50 minutes. Publicly verifiable professional details: autonomous psychologist, Jungian analytical psychotherapist and art therapist, IAAP Router, member of the Romanian College of Psychologists and of the Romanian Association for Analytical Psychology.
Do you work online or in person?
Yes. I work both online and in person, in the Calea Călărașilor – Piața Muncii area of Bucharest.
Do I need to know how to draw for art therapy?
No. The focus is on expression and exploration, not on artistic result or performance.
How do we begin?
You can contact me by phone, WhatsApp or email, and then we can schedule a first clarifying conversation.
Contact
Write when you feel it is time to begin.
For appointments or questions, send a short message. You can include a few words about what brings you to therapy, whether it is for you or for your child, and what format you prefer.
oana.dorneanu.mail@gmail.com
0720 326 925
Write directly
Calea Călărașilor, metrou Piața Muncii, București