Sergei Malkin clinical psychologist
Sergei Malkin clinical psychologist

Barcelona Therapist

Your English, Dutch and Russian Speaking

Therapist in Barcelona

and Amsterdam

Welcome. You are here for a reason. You may feel lost, stuck, and frustrated in a personal struggle. Perhaps you in your relationship and you think about couples counselling. Maybe someone dear to you is in distress, or you are just curious. Perhaps you’re hesitating, while thinking to yourself : “Is therapy or counseling something for me?” Come meet me. As a psychologist I will help you though this to become more resilient, more strong, more fulfilled and help you learn to build and maintain healthy relationships.  

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Sergei Malkin Psychologist

I will help you learn to build and sustain authentically connected, resilient and fulfilling meaningful relationships.
Come to unlock your full potential and love wholeheartedly.
Rediscover joy and experience fulfilment in love and friendship.

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“All life is in an encounter. Everything in life starts, unfolds and ends in relationships…” — Martin Buber, I and Thou (1923)

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Welcome!

Welcome my name is Sergei Malkin. I am a licensed psychosocial therapist and psychologist, trainer and supervisor.

  • I have my private practice in Amsterdam and Barcelona for around 15 years
  • I have clinical experience working with dependency issues in Dutch rehab facility
  • I was schooled in psychology and therapy in Netherlands
  • I was registered and licensed by two Dutch professional associations RBCZ & NVPA
  • I was trained and specialized to provide couples counselling and group trainings
  • I built experience in working with addiction, depression, co-dependency, attachment issues, intimacy and sexuality, loss and grief
  • I was trained to work with CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy), NLP, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Senso-motoric therapy, Systemic Therapy and Systemic Constellations, Bioenergetics and Psychodrama
  • I was trained to help you achieve sustainable change on the deepest level – identity level

If you are here, you are here for a reason. Maybe you feel lost, stuck, and frustrated in a personal struggle. Perhaps you struggle in your relationship and you need couples counselling. Maybe someone dear to you is in distress, or you are just curious. Perhaps you’re hesitating, while thinking to yourself  “Is therapy or counseling something for me? What can it do for me?” You are looking for help and guidance. I will help you discover that all you need is already inside of you. You can grow to use your full potential and live life to the fullest. You are welcome to meet and look around. My road to this profession was a bumpy one. I myself faced various personal challenges. But the day I discovered how I could learn and truly grow, it changed my life. In fact it proved so rewarding and satisfying, I reschooled to do this professionally. There is a big chance I know what you are going through. I am here to help you become more resilient, more confident and more connected.

“Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey.” Rumi, Mathnavi.

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Barcelona Therapist

Sergei Malkin Therapist

I am a psychologist and psychosocial therapist providing therapy in English. In my office in the city of Barcelona, I guide adults and couples in their difficulties around the following areas:

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Individual therapy

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Couples therapy

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Workplace challenges

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Trauma recovery

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Groups and workshops

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Online therapy

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Barcelona Therapist

Are you considering to start therapy in Barcelona? Your Barcelona therapist, I will help you to learn and grow to resolve your difficulties in relationships and address your life concerns more effectively and find a way forward to build and maintain more healthy relationships to yourself and others. Please reach out by email, contact form or telephone call.

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"Going in to therapy is a very personal journey. It's hard at times and requires quite a lot of introspection, but it also let's you discover how much strength you have as a person. Choosing the right therapist for this journey is a big advantage. Sergei offers a wide range of tools to guide you to discovery and growth. He also knows when it's time push you a little, and when it's time to be more careful."
Henrik
"I went to a psychologist for the first time in my life and I am very happy that I ended up with Sergei.
I was looking for someone who had experience in dealing with grief.
Sergei, thank you for your sessions! What a wonderful man you are.
I definitely recommend him."
Erica
"Sergei is great, a warm person that makes you feel safe and heard. Very observant and empathic. Also I love the fact I can speak to him in my native Dutch language. Highly recommended"
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Therapy Barcelona

Therapy and couple counseling

As a counselling psychologist, I offer individual therapy, counseling and coaching to help you navigate your own healing journey and grow personally to ease your life transitions.

Thus, my services include:

  • Individual counseling:
  • Difficulties in adaptation in immigration or expat experience while living abroad
  • Dealing with loss
  • Burnout and stress
  • Dealing with illness
  • Individual problems in relationships (issues with boundaries, self-doubt, extreme perfectionism, impostor-syndrome, inhibition in intimacy and sexuality, anger, rage, anxiety, …)
  • Unhealthy attachment patterns (harmful interactions with partners, emotional unavailability, addictive patterns, violence)
  • Dealing with aftermath of early trauma (self-doubt, toxic shame, low self-esteem, attention seeking or avoiding, ...)
  • Couples counseling, for relationship issues whatever your gender in all types of couples: straight, gay, lesbian, married, living together or dating
  • Executive coaching: individual learning space for developing personal and professional leadership
  • Group learning spaces: occasionally seminars, workshops and trainings
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My approach

Therapy is a learning space. It provides a safe and healing space to support, guide and challenge you. You will learn to resolve your attachment issues, clear up confusion and restore healthy boundaries, to disentangle yourself from dysfunctional patterns, lift blocks, shed ineffective defense mechanisms and develop new productive patterns to interact with your partner or family.  

Here is what makes my therapy provide effective and sustainable results:

  • I work at an identity level: I help you to become aware of your dysfunctional patterns, which are learned early in life and often stored in your body and deeply engraved in your identity and belief systems.
  • I use the therapeutic relationship as a learning space to examine yourself deeply and learn to develop new beliefs, new tools and new resources to face life challenges.
  • I offer experiential learning: I work with the totality of your learning experience (thinking, feeling, action, interactions and body) to achieve sustainable changes and results.

As a result you will develop skills and competences to relate to yourself and others in a more healthy way, to learn to maintain healthy autonomy, boundaries and self-esteem and to learn achieve more intimacy, connectedness, freedom and fulfilment in your bonds and life. 

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Do you have any question about therapy?

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You may have heard about psychotherapy. Therapy offers a learning space where your development is much deeper and more comprehensive. As a clinical psychologist, I help you address your whole personal identity (including body, mind and soul) and facilitates deep changes in beliefs, moods, feelings and thoughts thanks to a greater self-awareness. With therapy, your personal growth as a whole is the goal. Seeking help from mental health professionals wether to cope with mental health issues or support personal development is common, do not hesitate to take the first step and to contact me if you need an english speaking therapist.

As a clinical psychologist, my role is to provide a healthy and safe space where you can learn, experiment, and grow. Depending on the goals and nature of your request for help, a therapist can function as an expert, a mentor, an educator on mental health issues to offer effective and evidence-based treatments. However, a therapist is first and foremost a guide with first-hand experience in many issues – to an extent an equal partner who recognizes your experience and discovers with you a path to healing and growth.

With 15 years of experience working as an english speaking therapist, I was trained to work with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming Therapy, Gestalt therapy, Transactional Analysis, Senso-motoric therapy, Systemic Therapy and Systemic Constellations, Bioenergetic therapy and Psychodrama. All those tools help in achieving a successful therapy. The therapy can take place in person or with online sessions.

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Sergei Malkin is a licensed psychosocial therapist and psychologist in Barcelona, trainer and supervisor, registered member of the Dutch Professional Psychological Associations NVPA & RBCZ.

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Individual Therapy

Hacking Living abroad

When you emigrate, you undergo a lot of changes. It is natural to feel disoriented, lonely, overwhelmed, or anxious. You might even feel like you are on a constant rollercoaster. Or you might feel lost… Come and find out what to do.

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Navigating grief and loss

Sometimes you do not know you are grieving unless someone close passes away. You might feel nothing in life makes sense anymore. You feel like you lost yourself. Come to heal.

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Persevering through illness and malaise

We all take our physical health for granted… until we get ill. A diagnosis or unexplained symptoms suddenly make you feel damaged. It is overwhelming. It dominates your life. Come to learn to grow free and live a full life.

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Soothing burnout and managing stress

You previously led a vibrant lifestyle with lots going on. But suddenly, you feel drained, physically exhausted, and with feelings of confusion, frustration, or dissatisfaction. Come and find out what it means, how to learn from it, and how to recharge?

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Reconstructing self-worth after trauma

You might feel it’s difficult to talk about money. Or you work so hard, yet feel underpaid or dissatisfied. Or maybe you overspend/struggle to save, and make ends meet. Money is a mirror. It might reveal that our self-worth once got compromised… Come to reconstruct your self worth and learn to empower yourself.

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Addiction - Creating freedom from addictive behavior

Addiction can take many forms (food, smoking, alcohol, gambling, gaming, computer, drugs, sex, etc.). You find yourself in its grip. It seems to take over your life. It feels bigger than you. Come to find out how to let go.

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Intimacy and Boundaries

You struggle in friendships and romance. Something goes wrong, but you can’t put your finger on it. Sometimes you feel that people constantly let you down. You end up fighting, resenting or just giving up. … Come to understand your patterns and learn to strengthen your boundaries and cultivate healthy intimate connections.

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Sexuality and Intimacy issues

Sexuality and intimacy enhance our relationships, yet they are often covered in shade, hidden, uneasy. This can be confusing.  Sometimes you realize you have too many ‘intimate’ relations. Or you have a long-term bond, but passion all but disappeared…  Sexuality has a powerful pull. It can fulfil but can lead us astray – to secret affair or an addiction. Sexuality defines who we are.  Or you might realize that you have always felt different. Come to unpack and explore how to grow and build healthier, more authentic and fulfilling bonds.

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Couples Therapy

Forging mutual understanding and commitment

Is there constant bickering or misunderstanding in your relationship? You might be tired of it. You long for ease, intimacy and connection between the two of you. Come to explore how you can find each other again and restore your loving bond. Come to reconnect.

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Intimacy and connection

Have you been drifting apart from your partner recently? Maybe you feel it’s difficult to reach him/her and you feel completely closed off from each other. Or maybe you feel anxious, uneasy, suffocated, frustrated, or confused when together. What can you  do to restore intimate connection and to make your bond more satisfying and meaningful? Come to explore.

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Sexuality and Fulfillment

You might be in a long-term relationship, but you’re missing the passion and romance you once had. Or you may currently have a vibrant sex life with your partner, yet you feel like you are disconnected. It is confusing. What can you do? Come to rekindle fire and affection.

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Workplace challenges

Personal growth

Struggles are a part of life – annoying, unnerving, and frustrating. Yet they also provide opportunities for us to grow if you focus on the right target, you can learn and thrive. Come to explore your challenge.

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Leadership development

You might have a higher position in management, manage teams, oversee big budgets, and are vested with power and responsibilities. Yet you might need guidance and support more than those who work under you. Why? Come to expand your leaderships skills.

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Trauma recovery

Trauma and its effects

Maybe you thought you were over your traumatic experiences, but now, all of a sudden, it’s dominating your life again. Maybe you feel it catches up with you in your relationships. Or memories, you wish you’d have forgotten, start to flash back into your mind. Come to heal.

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Trauma – Addictive behavior

Every time you try to stop, you fail. This makes you feel even worse. You feel like a failure. Like you are a mess… and then relapse again. Why not take another path. Come to understand your addiction and discover its hidden story. You need to understand yourself and maybe discover parts of yourself, forgotten or suppressed…

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Intimacy and boundaries

Sometimes you realize that you get involved easily in others’ lives. Sometimes you grapple with feelings of guilt, uncertainty, embarrassment, or anxiety, which you can’t explain. Sometimes you don’t know what you feel or want. … The patterns might have developed as a response to the earliest pain in our lives.

When it comes to relationships, everybody longs for a deep connection. We long for intimacy with somebody. But often some of us avoid these relationships or connections altogether or sabotage them. We may well long for intimacy, yet we may find it difficult to connect and commit. Why?

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Trauma, self-worth and empowerment

Perhaps you struggle with your self-worth and self-confidence because you suffered from a traumatic experience in the past. Now you want to feel empowered. How?

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Trauma, burnout and stress

Traumatic experiences in the past can compromise our boundaries and make us vulnerable… Our previously vibrant lifestyle or professional career can suddenly be disrupted. You feel drained, physically exhausted, and frustrated.  How can you recover and become more resilient?

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Trauma, illness and malaise

Traumatic experiences in the past can compromise our boundaries…  it may make us more prone to react to changes in our body with anxiety, distress, and fear. This makes us more susceptible to illness. What can you do?

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Groups and workshops

Group work

Do you sometimes notice yourself changing when in groups, meetings, big companies? What effect does a group have on you? What place and what role do you tend to take? Groups are a place for an experiment. A place to learn and understand your patterns of insecurities, compulsion, resistance, and blocks. Come to learn.

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Thematic seminars

Workshops and seminars offer similar learning spaces, but they’re bigger, more intense, and more focused. Come to participate in workshops and seminars.

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Systemic Constellation

Some of our hang-ups we can easily understand, but we still get stuck there. They resist our willful change. It might seem that these have nothing to do with our past or our origins. Well, do they? Come and explore how Systemic constellation can enhance your learning and therapeutic progress.

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Online Therapy

Online Therapy

Are you shy? Do you feel safer and more comfortable in your own space? Do you suffer from panic attacks or social phobia? Or do you just simply not have enough time? Maybe Online Therapy/Online Counseling is an option for you to start getting help.

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