Psychotherapy, reflection, and mental-health tools designed to support meaningful inner change.
What is Ascent
Introduction
I'm Jelena — a psychologist and psychotherapist in training, software developer, and mountain guide.
Ascent is where I bring my work and ideas together, with a focus on human experience, reflection, and thoughtful ways of supporting both.
More about meSometimes life continues to function on the outside while something inside feels distant, overwhelmed, stuck, or difficult to understand. Psychotherapy creates space to slow down, notice what is happening, and explore it with another person.
Learn about psychotherapyMindGuide is being developed to help people explore therapists, understand how they work, and decide who they may want to contact.
Explore MindGuideMindTrails is a developing mental-health experience built around guided walking and psychological reflection. Choose what you want to explore, choose how long you want to walk, and receive prompts designed to help you slow down, notice, and reflect.
Explore MindTrailsNotes and essays on emotion, embodiment, relationships, work, nature, psychotherapy, and the sometimes uncomfortable process of understanding ourselves better.
Functioning & Feeling
We carry an invisible dashboard for adulthood and personality alike — but people are not software, and not every uncomfortable feeling is a bug to fix.
September 2026 5 min read02Work & Identity
When even stillness gets measured by what it enables afterward, rest quietly stops being rest and starts being another item on the list.
September 2026 6 min read03Movement & Reflection
What years of walking have made me curious about: what happens to our attention, our conversations, and our inner experience when the body begins to move.
August 2026 8 min read