Psychotherapist Teo Cristea-Mocian

Hello, I'm Teo and I introduce myself here as a systemic family and couple therapist.

For me, psychotherapy is not a corrective tool nor a process of forced adaptation to norms that were not chosen. The idea that people need to be "healed" or "fixed" doesn't align with my beliefs. I'm more interested in what aspects of how we live, work, and relate to each other end up producing suffering, and what becomes possible when these frameworks can be questioned.

Working with relationships holds an important place in my practice; I didn't make a mistake when I wrote my fees, as a systemic therapist, I genuinely want to work more with families and couples. When the difficulty is relational, I consider individual intervention to be less effective. For this reason, when the topic is related to communication, conflict, emotional withdrawal, or suffering circulating within a relationship, I encourage you to come together with those close to you.

A large portion of my clients are autistic/AuDHD adults, non-normative people or relationships in terms of gender, sexuality, or relational organization. I believe therapy is a space where difference doesn't need to be explained, defended, or translated to be accepted, and I put great emphasis on creating a safe space.

On the other hand, I have experience working with families who have children of different ages, acquired during my residency which I completed in pediatric psychiatry. There I learned about the pressures, dilemmas, and impasses parents face when a child has emotional, behavioral, or developmental difficulties. In therapy, I use this experience to understand the familial and institutional context in which difficulties arise, not to medicalize or simplify situations that are, in fact, relational and deeply contextual.

I work from a systemic and neuroaffirmative perspective. This means I don't treat difficulties as individual properties, but as results of relational, cultural, and institutional contexts that exert pressure. In therapy, I don't aim to adjust the person to the environment at any cost, but to understand where the mismatch occurs, what forms of adaptation have become costly, and what was lost along the way in order to remain functional.

I have an eclectic and flexible approach, seeking to orient myself according to the client's needs rather than any particular theory. However, I refuse directive work and the idea that the therapist's role would be to judge, prescribe, or tell someone what they should do.

I await you with respect and curiosity!

P.S. I am AuDHD and work mostly online.