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Taking new clients — next available appointment 18 August Sarajevo · online · Bosnian and English
Merima Pašalić EMDR
psychotherapy
BS Free first call
Portrait — looking at the camera, daylight
Merima Pašalić, in her room in central Sarajevo.

I came to EMDR because insight was not enough

People would arrive understanding their own history completely — every cause, every pattern, all of it named — and still not sleep. Understanding turned out to be the wrong missing piece.

Twelve years on, it still moves me to see a memory loosen its hold on someone. I work in Bosnian and English, from a room near Ferhadija, and online with people living abroad.

Alongside client work I supervise other EMDR therapists. For you that means something concrete: the method I use is one I teach and oversee in others, so my own work goes through the same scrutiny.

  • MSc in Psychology, licensed in Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • Certified EMDR supervisor — I supervise other therapists working with EMDR
  • EMDR Europe accredited practitioner
  • Member of the EMDR Association of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Four things you can rely on

The pace is yours. Nothing opens before preparation is finished, and the agreed stop signal works without explanation.

I do not ask for details. Processing only needs you to bring the memory to mind. What is in the image stays yours.

I say when I do not know. I estimate the number of sessions after mapping, not on the phone. Where the evidence is uncertain, I will say so.

I say when I am not the right person. After the first call, and I suggest other options where I know them.

Limits, plainly

  • Addiction and eating disorders
  • Children under thirteen
  • Active crisis, or needing a psychiatrist
  • Couples and family therapy

For each of these I have two specific names, not a link to a directory. Write to me anyway — I will refer you on.
The room — two chairs, from the doorway
The room, Ferhadija 00 — third floor, lift on the right.

This is what you are walking into

Two chairs, a window, and nothing that looks like a clinic. There is no reception and no waiting room with other people — you arrive on time and I let you in.

The building is on Ferhadija 00, third floor, lift on the right. If it matters to see the entrance before you come, write and I will send a photograph.

Start with twenty minutes on the phone

No charge and no expectation that you continue. Mostly I listen, then I tell you honestly whether I am the right person for this.