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Agnieszka Bojanowska, PhD
Psychologist. Consultant. Specialist in high-performance.
I work at the intersection of personal psychology and organisational performance. With a PhD in the psychology of thriving and advanced training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Schema Therapy, and EMDR, I support professionals navigating the pressures of high-stakes environments—whether they come with visible challenges or a quiet sense that something could be different.
My individual clients are often high achievers. Some arrive in a state of imbalance, others are functioning well but are drawn to deeper work: to understand what drives them, to loosen what holds them back, and to grow in ways that feel not only effective, but human.
Alongside this, I work with growing companies that face the natural tensions of scale: overstretched managers, rising friction, unclear leadership dynamics. Here, my role is systemic. I consult on people performance—not by pushing individuals harder, but by adjusting the system they operate in. This often means working with leadership teams to shape more mature, resilient ways of working that can sustain both excellence and wellbeing.
What unites both sides of my work is the belief that psychological insight becomes powerful when it’s applied precisely—whether to an individual pattern or an organisational structure. I don't offer generic tools or fixed frameworks. I listen closely, ask uncomfortable but useful questions, and draw from a wide range of methods to meet the complexity of the human mind and the reality of performance under pressure.
I work best with those who expect depth, clarity, and a rigorous approach—people who are curious, ambitious, and unwilling to settle for surface-level change. My aim is not to soothe, but to support real transformation: personal, professional, and systemic.
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Credentials:
- PhD in well-being psychology
- a position of Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw.
- Member of NIP (Nederlands Instituut van Psychologen)
- Trained in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, EMDR and Schema Therapy.
- Clinical training completed in the Polish Military Institute, PTSD Clinic and Psychiatry and Neurology Institute in Warsaw, Personality and Anxiety Clinic.
- Clinical experience gained at Kuhler & Partners International Mental Health, Amsterdam
Scientific Publications:
Piotrowski, K., Bojanowska, A., Szczygiel, D., Mikolajczak, M., Roskam, I. Parental Burnout at Different Stages of Parenthood: Links with Temperament, Big Five traits, and Parental Identity. Frontiers in Psychology 14. Doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1087977.
Bojanowska, A., Kaczmarek, Ł. Urbańska, B., Puchalska, M. (2022). Acting on Values: A Novel Intervention Enhancing Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being. Journal of Happiness Studies 23 (8), doi: 10.1007/s10902-022-00585-4
Bojanowska, A., Kościelniak, M., Gąsiorowska, A. (2022). Religiosity Decline in Europe: Age, Generation, and the Mediating Role of Shifting Human Values. Journal of Religion and Health, Doi: 10.1007/s10943-022-01670-x
Bojanowska, A., Kaczmarek, Ł., Urbańska, B. (2021). How healthy and unhealthy values predict hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Dissecting value-related beliefs and behaviors. Journal of Happiness Studies. Doi: 10.1007/s10902-021-00396-z
Bojanowska, A., & Urbańska, B. (2021). Individual values and well-being: The moderating role of personality traits.International Journal of Psychology, 56 (5), pp. 698-709, doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12751
Bojanowska, A., Kaczmarek, Ł., Kościelniak, M., Urbańska, B. (2021). Changes in values and well-being amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland. PLOS One, Doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255491
Piotrowski, K., & Bojanowska, A. (2021). Factor structure and psychometric properties of a Polish adaptation of the Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale. Current Psychology . http://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00198-w
Piotrowski, K., Bojanowska, A., Nowicka, A. et al. (2021). Perfectionism and community-identity integration: the mediating role of shame, guilt and self-esteem. Current Psychology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-01499-9
Bojanowska, A., Piotrowski, K. (2021). Two levels of personality: Temperament and values and their effects on hedonic and eudaimonic well-being. Current Psychology 40, 1185–1193
Bojanowska, A., & Piotrowski, K. (2020). Is Person-Group Value Congruence Always a Good Thing? Values and Well-Being Among Maladjusted Teens and Their Peers. Frontiers in Psychology, 11 , 1–10. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02035
Bojanowska, A., & Czerw, A. (2020). Values and well-being – how are individual values associated with subjective and eudaimonic well-being? Polish Psychological Bulletin , 51 (2), 162–169. http://doi.org/10.24425/ppb.2020.133773
Bojanowska, A., & Piotrowski, K. (2019). Values and psychological well-being among adolescents – are some values‘healthier’ than others? European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 16 (4), 402–416.http://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2018.1438257
Kościelniak, M., & Bojanowska, A. (2019). The Role of Personal Values and Student Achievement in Academic Dishonesty. Frontiers in Psychology , 10 (1887), 1–7. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01887Bojanowska, A., & Zalewska, A. (2018). Temperamental predictors of subjective well-being from early adolescence to midlife: The role of temporal and energetic regulation. International Journal of Psychology , 6 (53), 458–467.http://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12414
Bojanowska, A., Zatorski, M., Gazdowska, J., & Durlik, M. (2017). Adherence to treatment among chronically ill ambulatory patients. Polish Psychological Bulletin , 3 (48), 380–387. http://doi.org/10.1515/ppb-2017-0044
Bojanowska, A., & Zalewska, A. (2016). Happy temperament? Four types of stimulation control linked to four types of Subjective well-being. Journal of Happiness Studies , 18 (5), 1403–1423. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-016-9777-2
Gozdowska, J., Zatorski, M., Bojanowska, A., Trochalla, p., Białek, Ł., Tomaszek, A., … Durlik, M. (2016). Living-Donor Versus Deceased-Donor Kidney Transplantation: Comparison of Psychosocial Consequences for Recipients. Transplantation Proceedings, 48 (5), 1498–1505. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2016.01.075
Bojanowska, A., & Zalewska, A. (2015). Lay Understanding of Happiness and the Experience of Well-Being: Are Some Conceptions of Happiness More Beneficial than Others? Journal of Happiness Studies , 17 (2), 793–815.http://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-015-9620-1
Bojanowska, A., Siegień, W. (2010). Playing with people in the same country. [in:] A. Ross, M. Dooly (red.) What’s fair? Young Europeans constructions of equity, altruism and self-interest. Barcelona: UAB Press