Kasia Żukow-Tapioles, MSc
Kasia provides professional support in the field of psychology and sexology. In her offer you can find individual counselling for everyone that is struggling in the area of their sexuality and emotions. The consultations are open for everyone who needs to be listened to and guided. Her special focus is on all the groups placed under a taboo, like: children (their parents), people in the time of pregnancy and post partum, people with disabilities, everyone on asexuality spectrum and everybody who feels left outside and socially forgotten or excluded. One of the main aims is to learn how to understand and enjoy our own sexuality and emotional relationships. Her goal is the guidance in how to recognize, reconnect and regulate your emotions. She deeply believes that solid education is a great part of improving the quality of life and finding solutions for already existing issues.
I have lived and birthed in two foreign countries. I am familiar with many aspects of being a person of foreign origin and the difficulties it may bring. After my first, quite traumatic birth, I decided to change the narrative for the second one. And so I submerged myself in birth education. That led to my second, delightfully healing birth. The most amazing experience of my life.
And so I felt this huge urge and need to share with all the people that want to listen, read and watch. That’s where I found my passion for birth photography. I consider it a part of sex education, about birth as the most natural process, showing how blissfull and empowering experience it can be. Birth photography together with the counselling can be used for prevention of trauma, PTSD and depression caused in the process of pregnancy, birth and postpartum. I have learned that every experience, emotion and stimuli is stored in the body. Our body speaks to us and as soon as we learn how to listen, follow and trust it, we will be able to find balance and harmony. That is where my professional brand name came from - Your Body Knows.
All the lessons I have learned through maternity have changed my vision of life as a complex construct in which we are the ones who decide how to develop it and which path to choose.
Kasia Żukow-Tapioles speaks fluently Polish, English and Spanish and so she is open for consultation and cooperation with anyone speaking one of these three languages.
You can book appointments and read more about her services on Kasia’s webpage: https://www.kasiatapioles.com
After accomplishing a master’s degree in Psychology with two specializations (Cognitive Neuroscience and Human-Computer Interaction Design) she found her vocation in Sexology. Currently she is one step from receiving a master degree in it at a Spanish Institute. Her master thesis is a wide project aiming to introduce sex education in everyday consults in Icelandic health care for pregnant people.
Kasia is very active in the subject of body positivity, importance of self-care, self-talk and breaking down all the hurtful myths. Even before having children she knew attachment parenting was the right way to give love and support to your children, striving for healthy mental and physical development. In the spirit of thy she became Shantala Massage instructor.
In the meantime Kasia keeps her knowledge up to date by with attending classes such as: How to professionally assist asexual people, Sexuality of young children or Crisis intervention in practice.