Alexandra Barbulea

I am an Executive Coach, as well as an Office and HR Managerin the corporate sector.

In my daily work, I help individuals and professionals in positions of responsibility to regain clarity, alignment, and direction, supporting them in making informed decisions, leading with integrity, and building authentic and sustainable growth paths, both inside and outside the company.

The thread that connects these two worlds is one: the construction of solid systems—organizational and human—oriented toward the long term, meaning, and responsibility.

I grew up among deep ideas, stories and conversations.
I wanted to change the world, and as a child I was certain that one day I would become president of my country.
It made many people smile - now I smile about it, too.

That dream led me to move to Italy, driven by a desire to grow and build something meaningful.
As is the case with many, I thought that studying "abroad" would make me more influential, more capable, more ready to face life.

The experience nourished me, but also shook me.
It confronted me with the weight of independence, the shifting image of myself, and the feeling of not being enough.
Every "no" became a wound, every failure a hard-to-explain emptiness.

At some point, everything stopped.

My academic path lost meaning, my dream crumbled, and with it my confidence.
But right there, where I thought I had lost everything, I discovered that I was already in the midst of another journey.
A different one, a truer one... or maybe just a new one, because I had believed in it before, too. That, too, was "true" at that moment.

I realized, however, that my talent was not in politics,not in the politics we see today but in its ideals, in the desire to understand the people and to help them find the resources they need for a secure,full and satisfying life .So this desire took shape in researching myself as an individual and in relation to others ,in my ability to listen, to support, to reflect together with others so that I first and others consequently can understand each other, and see each other in such a way ...as to do just that :to achieve a secure, full and satisfying life.

So with each story I was given, mine also began to unravel.

I started working in the company, and that's where I discovered how emotional, psychological, and human well-being—in its entirety—is fundamental to building a peaceful and, why not, satisfying life, capable of generating good results.
Because when we are not well, everything can fall apart at any moment, in every area of our lives.

Driven by this insight, I chose to deepen my study of human beings: initially from an emotional and communicative point of view, then psychological, spiritual, and even physical.
I embarked on a path of person-centered counseling, which taught me the art of authentic listening—first to others, then to myself.
Yes, that's the order: that's how it went for me.

However, I felt the need to add another tool, something that would bridge the gap between awareness and transformation.
This need led me to become a Mental Coach: helping people not only to understand what they are experiencing, but also to transform that understanding into concrete change through action.

Over time, working increasingly closely with the corporate world and in positions of responsibility, I realized that many of the internal dynamics I observed were also strongly reflected in professional contexts: in decision-making, leadership, and the management of pressure, power, and responsibility.

It was therefore natural for me to delve deeper into Executive Coaching.
Today, I help professionals and leaders rediscover clarity, focus, and alignment so that they can guide people, projects, and organizations from a solid foundation: themselves.

I help people understand that a life—both personal and professional—that truly reflects what we desire is not a matter of chance, but a conscious responsibility.
It is a responsibility we choose to take on, despite external factors, when we decide to be present, clear-headed, and intentional in our choices.

I study continuously, because there is no end to discovery: psychology, philosophy, old and new theories, how the mind works, how the body works, how they are connected, who influences whom, where to start...
I study everything that life offers me through experience.

Today I also continue to work in the company: it is my concrete side, my ground of deep experience as much as the sessions with those who rely on my support.
I see how much even in the most "formal" spaces there is a need for listening, support, humanity ,empowerment ,self-confidence stimulation and courage - and why not, also poetry, metaphors, beauty, in all its forms.

I have a family , I am a wife and a mom of a little girl who is now 5 years old, this is my terrain where emotions show up in a more pronounced way and are tested in a significant way and I am immensely grateful for that.

And in the meantime, I have created this space, a great desire that is taking shape and taking me into a new world of interaction and relationship .

I didn't invent anything extraordinary, I put together what I discover: studying, living, falling, getting up again.
Here I want to make available reflections born from solitude and comparison, from reading and silence, from internal conflicts - and not only, because conflicts with oneself often become conflicts with others .

My intention is to explore and help others explorethrough my voice and my method, which is based on what has already been written and which I combine with my personal life and life experience.
I am a resource for those who are going through moments of loss, stagnation, confusion, frustration... or simply curiosity and a desire for transformation and evolution.

I know what it's like to feel this way.
I know it's possible to find yourself and live better -- a little better with each passing day, each knot untied.

Sophya and the Phoenix was born from all of this:a place to rise again, whenever needed.
A place where words become tools, and each passage , even the most painful one ,can become ashes from which to be reborn.

The name combines two powerful symbols:
Sophya , from the Greek σοφία , wisdom . It is profound knowledge, that which is born from life, from experience, from awareness.
The Phoenix , in mythology, is the firebird that is reborn from its own ashes. It represents transformation , resilience , rebirth after every end.

These two archetypes together make me believe that only through self-knowledge can we truly be reborn. And each time we do so, we become truer, more whole, freer.

"One cannot be reborn unless one is first willing to look at what has been reduced to ashes."
- taken from a thought inspired by depth psychology