Valeria is a former professional top tennis player and a versatile athlete who is currently a life coach. She achieved success in tennis - medals from the Bratislava Championships, winner of 10 Czech-Slovak tournaments in various youth categories and was one of the leading players in Slovakia at the time. Even as a child, she felt considerable expectations and increased pressure for performance and results, regardless of the female psyche, and functioning in a male environment, which belongs to elite sports.
While studying at the University of Economics in Bratislava, she began to provide sport coaching and, despite successfully graduating from the University, she enrolled in a 2-year distance learning program at the Faculty of Physical Education and Sports in Bratislava, specializing in tennis, which she successfully completed. She has more than 30 years of coaching experience. For a long time, she accompanied athletes of various youth categories at tournaments. Valeria was aware that she provides more than training to her athletes, and was fascinated by the work of a life coach. She saw an extraordinary value for the success of her clients in coaching, as well as for her self-realization.
This knowledge led her to self-study, self-development and at the same time complete several courses in the field of education, pedagogy and psychology. Since 2019, she has been involved with aromatherapy in the context of physical and emotional support for her clients, and in 2023-2024 she completed the Gestalt Coaching Training and received a certificate from the Slovak Association of Coaches. In her work, she focuses on life and mental coaching for athletes, and she also cooperates with the organization SportLead, which provides mental coaching to athletes, sports coaches and managers as well as sport organizations.
Valeria summed up her passion for coaching by saying: "I enjoy the most when I find myself in a personal conversation with clients, in their world and I can see through their eyes. I am fascinated when we are transferred to the present moment "here and now” and then move into more depth - not only in thoughts, but holistically, to feelings inside and manifestations on the body. And when the client notices and names it, we come to realize many connections that bring about the desired changes. In the role of a coach, I not only help others, but also live my mission. Things shift, fit into their place, and that's how I feel alive."