Violeta Kasperavičiūtė

Each of us has our own path to walk in life. My journey has not been a straight one—it was full of twists, crossroads, and dead ends. Yet it was precisely through these turns that I learned the most important things about being human: pain, helplessness, and hope. Through personal experience, I came to understand what a real crisis, illness, uncertainty, and inner searching truly mean. Getting lost and finding myself again became not only a challenge, but a spiritual journey—and later, a professional calling.
Since my youth, I dreamed of becoming a psychotherapist—even when I didn't yet fully understand what it meant. That dream led me to begin my studies at the Kaunas University of Medicine. However, after four years of studies, having married and become lost in external circumstances and the onset of illness, I had to leave that path. I enrolled in accounting instead, though I knew it was not my calling. Then came illness. At the age of 30, I began dialysis—a period filled with surgeries, physical and spiritual exhaustion, hopelessness, and depression.
During that time, Richard Bach's book Illusions found its way into my hands. It rekindled in me the long-lost belief that life can be changed if we dare to imagine it differently. I remembered my dream psychology—and at the age of 37, I returned to my studies. I enrolled in the Bachelor's program in Psychology at Mykolas Romeris University while working, undergoing dialysis, and without any days off. It was financially difficult, but I endured thanks to the support of loved ones and an inner faith that if I followed my path, things would unfold as they should.
My final thesis focused on the happiness of older women, based on Carl Gustav Jung's theory. In exploring this topic, I sought to understand how inner transformation and individuation contribute to a deeper sense of fulfillment in later stages of life. At that time, I received my third kidney transplant—this became a personal confirmation that life begins to flow in a new direction when you follow your heart. Jung’s ideas became deeply meaningful to me. I already knew—this was the psychotherapeutic path I wanted to follow. Later, I completed my Master’s degree in Health Psychology at Mykolas Romeris University and entered postgraduate studies with LAPA (Lithuanian Association for Analytical Psychology). That had long been my dream—to delve into Jungian analytical psychology.

Professional Experience
I began my psychological work during my studies. I worked as an administrator and later as a medical psychologist at an addiction treatment facility. I also gained experience in rehabilitation centers and dialysis clinics, where I visited and counseled patients during treatment. In addition, I worked with people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
I have delivered lectures on addiction to teenagers and their parents in schools, as well as public talks on emotions. I also worked in the field of social integration at the State Centre for Addiction Disorders in Panevėžys.
Currently, the majority of my practice consists of remote psychological counseling, with a portion conducted through in-person sessions. I work with adults experiencing anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, health-related crises, or issues related to addiction. Beyond my psychological practice, I have published a collection of poems titled For the Human Being, in which I explore themes of love, pain, life, and death—an attempt to touch, through words, what often lies beyond the limits of language.

What Matters to Me
Psychotherapy, to me, is not a method or a set of protocols. It is a meeting. A living, open, deeply human encounter. It is a journey where a person dares to look within, to face what is difficult, and to discover what heals. I believe that within every person lies a Self that knows the
way, even when the path seems lost. Sometimes, all it takes is another person—to accompany, to stay, and not to run away.