Psychologist
Agnieszka Bojanowska, PhD
I'm a psychologist with over 20 years of experience — in research, in clinical practice, and in the quiet, honest work of sitting with people when life stops making sense.
I started in academia, studying what actually drives people at the deepest level: their values, their sense of well-being, what gives life meaning and what quietly erodes it. I published, I taught, I built a career in the science of human experience. But the work that kept pulling me back was always the same — being in the room with someone, one-on-one, in the moments where understanding alone isn't enough and something needs to shift.
I believe therapy is, at its core, an act of self-awareness. Not the kind you get from reading about yourself — the kind that only happens in relationship, in real time, when someone reflects you back without judgment and without rushing to make it better.
I'm drawn to depth. To the patterns people carry without knowing. To the gap between who someone performs being and who they actually are. To the inner conflicts that are too subtle for most conversations but too loud to ignore.
I don't work with techniques for their own sake. I work with presence — mine and yours. I believe that when a person is truly seen, something in them begins to reorganise. Not because I've done something clever, but because consciousness itself is healing when it's met with honesty and care.
I'm based in the Netherlands. I work in English and Polish
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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