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About me

Anna Barauskas

About me
Anna Barauskas
I live and work in Chicago, where I conduct individual and group sessions for adults, youth, marriages, couples, and families. I specialize in all forms of coaching, using cognitive-behavioral and cognitive methods in my work with clients.

I work with individuals who:

  • have low self-esteem and lack effective communication skills

  • struggle with procrastination (putting things off "for later")

  • experience aggression from others

  • want to learn how to express anger constructively

  • grew up in alcoholic or dysfunctional families

  • have difficulties building or maintaining relationships, feel lonely, or are unable to navigate a partnership or start a family

  • are in crisis – dealing with feelings of guilt, shame, anxiety, helplessness, loneliness, or mood disorders

  • are going through a divorce, separation, job loss, relocation, or other significant changes and stepping out of their comfort zone

  • seek personal growth and self-awareness

  • need support in business and want to improve communication with employees

  • want to work on their self-confidence and public speaking skills

  • want to turn their desires into specific goals and start realizing them

  • want to define the meaning of their life or develop their professional career

Have a question? Call: 312 566 8026

polish psychologist in chicago, mind trainer
Experience

Professional biography

Anna Barauskas is one of the best Polish life coaches working globally, the first Polish NLP trainer in the USA, a motivational speaker, co-founder and lecturer at The NeuroLinguistic Training Institute of Chicago, president of the Polish American Coach Federation, and a journalist.

She has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry. Agata Młynarska, Izabella Miko, Anna Guzik, Andrzej Lepper, Olga Kozierowska, Doda, Robert Klatt, Andre Napier, Dr. Thomas Grobelny are just a few of the many names on the list of people she has collaborated with, both in the field of personal development and journalism. For the past 10 years, she has worked in the world of media, politics, and entertainment, yet it is not working with celebrities, but training and sessions with individual clients that bring her the greatest joy.

Her special interests include positive psychology, human development in late adulthood, and the connection between psychology and philosophical anthropology. Her work as a personal development trainer has long since stopped being a job and has become her life’s mission.

To date, she has trained hundreds of licensed life coaches in the USA, who incorporate NLP methods and elements of Gestalt therapy in their work. She has conducted over 3,000 hours of open and closed training for companies and corporations, as well as hundreds of individual coaching sessions. One of her greatest joys is knowing that after meeting her, people begin to paint their world in the colors of their own dreams. Life coaching has become her way of life and a path to building relationships with others.

Anna is a graduate of Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, as well as Ashworth College and Wilbur Wright College in Chicago. She is fascinated by Gestalt therapy, which she studied in courses at Stonebridge College in the UK.

She also holds the following titles and diplomas:

  • Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

  • Master in the Art of Neuro-Linguistic Programming

  • Master Certified Coach

  • Personal and Business Life Coach Certification

  • Motivational Coach Certification

  • Weight Loss Master Coach Certification

  • Trauma & Grief Resolution Coach Certification

  • Social and Emotional Intelligence Coach Certification

She is the first Polish woman in the USA to have studied under Dr. Richard Bandler himself. This living creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming personally awarded her the title of Licensed Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming, granting her the authority to conduct NLP training and courses, accredited by the Society of NLP, the world’s largest professional NLP organization based in the USA.

Over the last 20 years, Anna has trained with and been certified by the world’s most renowned specialists in life coaching and motivation, including:

  • Dr. Richard Bandler

  • John La Valle

  • Anthony Robbins

  • Brian Tracy

  • Louise Hay

  • Kathleen LaValle

  • Gregg Braden

  • Nicole Schneider

  • Scott Gallimore

  • Garth Fuerste

  • Dr. Muhammad Imran

  • Dr. Ginamarie Pugliese Wells

  • Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

  • Dr. Robert Holden

  • Marianne Williamson

  • Dr. Brian L. Weiss

  • Doreen Virtue

  • Cheryl Richardson

  • Caroline Myss

In 2002, she began collaborating with the Polish-American monthly Chicago Forum. In 2003, she joined Chicago Radio WPNA 1490, and a year later, while living in the USA, she began publishing a motivational magazine for women. In 2008, under the title POLKI W ŚWIECIE, it became available across Poland.

In 2005 in Chicago, Anna was named Journalist of the Year, and a few months later, as the only Polish woman at that time, she received a prestigious award from the City of Chicago for her publishing and journalistic work, motivating and inspiring immigrants to adapt and take action in the USA.

In 2007, she became a foreign correspondent, preparing news from the USA for the Polish nationwide radio station TOK FM and Radio PIN in Warsaw. She is a member of the Polish Journalists Association and the International Federation of Journalists. She became the producer and publisher of the ABC Coaching radio program, which she co-created with graduates and students of the Institute of Neurolinguistics and Life Coaching School, aired on Chicago’s WPNA 1490 AM.

She has published three books containing her thoughts on life and relationships with people. Last year, her bestseller “KSIĄŻKA DLA KOBIET” was released, following her earlier “KSIĄŻKA DLA CHŁOPCÓW” four years prior. She is currently preparing extensive material on life coaching.

In addition to journalism, publishing, and personal development, one of her greatest passions for many years has been her love for Alaska. Not only does she spend her vacations in this beautiful part of the world, but for two decades she has been fascinated by the 17th and 18th-century history of this area.

We invite you to the courses led by Anna. For more information about training: www.SZKOLENIAwUSA.com.

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