Adam Zubricky is a psychodynamic psychotherapist. Adam was a competitive Ballroom and Latin-American dancer for over 15 years, competing internationally. After an active dancing career, he transitioned into coaching and mentoring high-level dancers, which gave him significant insight into the pressures, expectations, and challenges faced by performers. This personal experience has greatly informed his work as a therapist, allowing Adam to connect deeply with clients from similar backgrounds.
Adam specialises in supporting dancers and other performing artists. He has also worked with actors, comedians, and visual performance artists, applying trauma-informed, relational, and psychodynamic approaches to help them navigate identity, stress, and performance-related issues. Adam can help with a range of issues, particularly: trauma (including sexual violence and complex trauma); gender, sex/sexual, and relationship diversity (GSRD) issues; identity and self-esteem difficulties; eating disorders and body image concerns (particularly for dancers); relationship and attachment difficulties; stress, anxiety, and depression; loss and bereavement; performance pressure and burnout, especially for high-level performers.
Adam offers Psychodynamic Therapy, Trauma-Informed Therapy, GSRD/LGBTQ+ Informed Therapy also using the Relational Approach and Supportive Interventions. Adam is currently in the process of applying for Advanced GSRD accreditation.
"A large part of my experience is within Gender, Sex/Sexual and Relationship Diversity, including issues around LGBTQ+ identity. I am a founder of a psychotherapy service offering long-term support to LGBTQ+ clients in Central/Eastern Europe. In collaboration with leading LGBTQ+ organisations in multiple European countries, I also develop and co-author international projects on queer mental health. In my international work, I deliver workshops, consultations and trainings to healthcare and mental health professionals on queer mental health as well working with GSRD/LGBTQ+ clients.
I am committed to helping you explore what makes you you without telling you what to do or making you feel like you ought to be different. In relation to what makes us who we are, I have experience working with people whose difficulties are around their identities as well as with people whose identities are unrelated to what they come to therapy for. I also believe that who we are and how we are seen by those around us has a direct impact on how we move through the world and feel about ourselves, and I am thus deeply committed to anti-oppressive practices, inviting all aspects of self to the therapy room.
Other areas I have a special interest in include sexual violence, carers, loss and bereavement, migration, culture shock, relationship struggles and the impact of Covid-19.
I frequently work with expats as well as people for whom English is a second language and am comfortable supporting clients who frequently travel, do not have a fixed residence, or call several places home. My particular interest in this area is therapeutic work with people whose primary language (“mother tongue”) is not the language we are working in. In addition to the UK, I have an understanding of the cultural contexts of Scandinavia (primarily Denmark), and Central and Eastern Europe (primarily Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Ukraine). While I have personal experience of living, belonging and moving between multiple countries, I try to avoid assuming that I know what these experiences might mean for you.
I offer sessions in English, Slovak, Czech (and, if combined with English, also Danish).
I've worked extensively with artists and athletes at all levels, but in particular high-level competitive dancers. I have a thorough understanding of the unique pressures and challenges this involves, and I am comfortable supporting individuals functioning in high pressure environments.
I also have experiences working with spirituality, particularly the ways in which that might affect one’s sense of self, including spiritual abuse and trauma and experiences of growing up queer within a spiritual or religious context."