Meet the people who are the heart of the foundation
Mindset Institute foundation for emotional education and mental health promotion
Magdalena Kowalska
CEO & Founder
Her mission is to support families experiencing a mental health crisis. She co-creates programs in the areas of empowering parents, increasing self-awareness and strengthening parenting skills. She believes in the health-promoting power of art and literature. She designs and conducts art therapy workshops for children and adolescents, focusing on bibliotherapy and art therapy using visual arts. Previously, she worked in communication and relationship building for more than a dozen years, working on the business side. Humanist. Volunteer. Member of the Polish Bibliotherapy Association. Graduate of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw. She has completed numerous postgraduate studies, including Art Therapy. She is currently finishing MA studies program in Clinical and Health Psychology at SWPS University in Warsaw. Artistic soul, passionate about literature and art, and long forest walks.
As a mom of two teenagers, I understand the challenges parents face. I know that in building a child’s mental resilience, the support of the family and the immediate environment is essential. I also believe that a crisis can be a new beginning and an opportunity for a better future.
Project Manager
Magdalena is an interior designer with a primary education (WSSiP in Łódź and the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw). In her previous career, she designed interiors, co-organized cultural and artistic events, and managed projects in the creative industry. She spent the pandemic in Warmia, where she decided to change her career path.
She is currently in the final year of a long-cycle master’s degree program in Clinical and Health Psychology at SWPS University in Warsaw. Her greatest passion and source of fulfillment is working with children and adolescents affected by mental health crises. She has gained experience in psychology at the Dr. Barbara Borzym Independent Voivodeship Public Psychiatric Healthcare Complex in Radom, at the Blue Line Association in Warsaw, and at the OPTA Specialized Psychological and Pedagogical Counseling Center in Warsaw. She still has many internships, placements, and training courses ahead of her, but she already knows that in her psychological and psychotherapeutic work, she wants to focus on adolescents affected by mental health crisis, as well as their parents and siblings.
At the Mindset Institute, she coordinated projects, runs creative workshops in psychiatric wards for children and adolescents, and is also responsible for ongoing collaboration with the volunteer team.
m.mazurkiewicz.skuza@mindset.org.pl
Art therapist, visual artist
Joanna Wróblewska is a visual artist and expressive arts therapist currently based in Belgium. She holds an MA degree in intermedia graphic design, a PhD degree in visual arts, and an MA degree in Expressive Arts Therapy with a Minor in Psychology. Joanna works mainly with people who have experienced migration in any form and those who search for a place of belonging. She specializes in gentle trauma-informed, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary therapeutic work using various art-based tools, somatic practices, guided imagery, and deep relaxation techniques like Yoga Nidra. Joanna draws inspiration from the natural world, especially from greenery and forests. A deep connection with nature helps her to express as an artist as well as to hold restorative therapeutic spaces for people who deal with cultural shock, loneliness, sense of guilt, doubts, sadness, and anything else that accompanies major changes and marks points of transition in their lives.
Monika Lipmann
Psychologist
Psychologist with teaching credentials. She works at the Center for Community Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Care for Children and Adolescents (reference level I). She also runs her own psychological office. She gained professional experience through numerous internships, working in a behavioral early intervention center and a therapeutic kindergarten. For many years she provided individual therapy for children with special needs, as well as training for parents.
She is a graduate of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, as well as postgraduate studies in Applied Behavior Analysis at SWPS in Warsaw. She is currently participating in the TPB cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy course with DM motivational dialogue, conducted by the Academy of Motivation and Education in Warsaw. She has completed a number of trainings in cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, Applied Behavior Analysis, social skills training and working with individual patients.
Programs
Get support
Parents with children suffering from mental health crisis can register for a free counselling session at the Mindset Foundation. The counselling session can take form of a face to face meeting in Lesznowola near Warsaw or an online meeting.
To make an appointment, fill in the form below.
Schedule a consultation
Looking for support – call!
Helpline for Children and Adolescents run by the Foundation We Give Children Strength
Tel. 116 111 (open 24 hours a day)
Phone call for parents and professionals on child safety run by the We Give Children Strength Foundation
Tel.800 100 100 (open Monday through Friday from 12:00 pm to 3:00 pm)
Children’s Helpline Child Advocate:
Tel. 800 121 212 (open 24 hours a day)
National Emergency Service for Victims of Family Violence „Blue Line”:
Consultation on domestic violence (for victims and witnesses)
Tel. 800 120 002
National Drug Helpline:
Helpline for addicts run by the National Bureau for Drug Prevention
Tel. 800 199 990 (open daily from 16:00-21:00)
Behavioral Addictions Helpline:
Helpline for people with behavioral addictions at the Institute of Health Psychology PTP
Tel. 801 889 880 (open daily from 17:00-22:00)
Tel. 801 108 108 or (22) 211 80 15 (open Monday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.)
Crisis Support Phone of Health Assistants:
For people in mental health crisis, their Families and Friends
Tel. 698 761 774 (open on Mondays from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.)