Dominika supports clients in their career development at any stage of their professional life. She helps them discover their strengths, values, identify interests, skills and competencies, and accompanies them in the decision-making and career-planning process. She also provides the first contact with clients, crisis intervention on the hotline, and further support for the clients.
"I am pleased to be a part of a dynamic team, where I have the opportunity to grow, develop, and gain new experience and inspiration. My work fulfills me due to its meaningfulness and opportunity to create and cater to clients’ needs. In the counseling process, I like to use innovative and experiential methods that support spontaneity and better self-knowledge for the clients. Accompanying a client on the path of self-knowledge, discovery and potential development is an adventure for me, because each client is unique, and the path is always unpredictable and original.”
Dominika studied occupational psychology at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences of the Comenius University in Bratislava. During her university studies, she completed an internship in the field of occupational psychology, during which she assisted in psychological examination and diagnosis. As part of her doctoral studies, she focused on interventions in secondary schools, especially the use of peer mentoring when choosing a future course of study and work orientation. She also participated in the preparation, implementation and evaluation of an intervention aimed at increasing the scientific literacy of secondary school students within the Slovak Academy of Sciences project. Later, she worked as an external consultant for a non-profit organization, where, as part of education program for high school students, she provided consultancy aimed at acquiring career orientation and improving soft and hard skills.
She completed the Crisis Intervention course, the accredited training program Basics of Crisis Intervention for Helping Professionals, the accredited Lecturer course, in which she had the opportunity to develop her social and didactic competences, and the accredited Career Counseling course aimed at acquiring skills for working with an individual or a group at any stage of working life. She also participated in the course Psychological assessment of credibility and contemporary methods of criminal and investigative psychology. She completed the Accredited Training in Career Counseling of the Association for Career Counseling and Career Development, which combines the theoretical foundations of career counseling with training in innovative methods and approaches in career counseling. She speaks Slovak and English.