Doctor of Law, lawyer, psychologist, and psychotherapist in training.

She has experience as an academic lecturer in medical law at the Collegium Medicum of the Jan Kochanowski University, in law for psychologists at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, and in law for psychologists and forensic psychology at the Humanitas University. She also teaches courses in ethics in the psychology profession, interpersonal communication, and psychological support for adults. Additionally, she specializes in trauma studies and teaches in this field.
She currently works as an assistant professor at the Institute of Psychology at Jan Kochanowski University in Kielce.

Monika completed a four-year doctoral program at the Institute of Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, as well as two postgraduate programs at Jagiellonian University: one in fiscal and business criminal law, and another in substantive and procedural criminal law. She is also a graduate of aviation law studies at Łazarski University. In 2014, she passed the bar exam for admission to the attorney apprenticeship.
She currently serves as the Head of the Legal Department at a company producing innovative devices for European and global markets. She provides legal advice to the
management board, drafts and reviews contracts, and represents the company in court proceedings.

She has extensive legal experience, having worked as a lawyer and attorney trainee in prestigious law firms, as well as providing legal services for companies and medical institutions, including the Silesian Hospital in Cieszyn.
Monika conducts legal training for psychologists and psychotherapists, aimed at individuals, medical entities, psychological and educational counselling centres, associations, and foundations. She has collaborated with organizations such as the Polish EMDR Therapy Association, the University Hospital in Kraków (Department of Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy), and the L. Rydygier Specialist Hospital, where she trained professionals in clinical psychology.

In the field of psychotherapy, she has completed:

• A two-year postgraduate program in psychotherapy at the Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Collegium Medicum
• An eight-month course in Motivational Interviewing at the Polish Institute of Motivational Dialogue
• Level I training in Solution-Focused Therapy (PSR Centrum, Warsaw)
• EMDR Therapy Training
• The Kids’ Skills program “I Can Do It! I’m Proud of You!”

She is currently undergoing a four-year training program in EMDR-based psychotherapy.

Monika is the author of several academic publications, including works published by the Medical University of Katowice. Privately, she has written travel reportage and is the author of the travel book Kenya Through My Eyes.
In her personal life, she is passionate about travel, good literature, and art — and above all, she is the proud mother of her lovely daughter, Hania.