Denisa Corbu

I am a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, a graduate of 2 master's programs at the Babeș-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca – Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, as well as Public and Clinical Health Psychology.

I currently work as a psychotherapist at the Romanian Foundation for Children, Community and Family, with teenagers and parents from disadvantaged backgrounds, as a counselor at the Student Expert Counseling Center Cluj-Napoca, as coordinator of the Scientific Department at the Choice Association and as a psychologist at the Straja Camps. I have always wanted to reach out to people with emotional suffering, who are sometimes unable to find solutions on their own to the problems they face. I believe my role as a therapist is, first of all, to give them the tools they need to better understand themselves and others, so that they can then make the changes they want.

Given my specialization in Health Psychology, my interest also turns to a healthy and balanced lifestyle. Emotional factors make an important contribution to physical problems, including obesity, so young people need the support of a psychologist who can help them understand what triggers their unhealthy eating, what they can do to stop it and how they can have a better relationship with their own body. It is essential to intervene early in these problems, which can be overcome by acquiring and learning certain skills – healthy emotional regulation, effective communication, optimal nutrition and regular physical exercise. The chances of putting these skills into practice and maintaining them are all the greater the earlier they are learned.