Helena Teixeira Respondek has a master degree in psychology. She graduated from the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2013 and is a certified therapist in Personal Integration Therapy (ADI/TIP Method by Faculdade Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais), post-graduate in 2016. Since 2021 she has given lectures and online courses on Edith Stein’s anthropology and her vision of a woman (being a woman, a woman’s soul, a woman’s vocation). Helena is an author of “O co chodzi w byciu człowiekiem? Antropologia Edyty Stein okiem psychologa”(eng. “What being a human is all about? Edith Stein’s Anthropology through the Eye of a Psychologist”, 2022) where she refers to Stein’s philosophical lecture “The human person’s structure” with various areas and terms of contemporary psychology. She also wrote “Jak dojść do siebie” (eng. “How to recover”, 2020) which explains briefly the ADI/TIP Method. Helena not only deals with lay people, but also is specialized in providing psychological help to consecrated people.
As of 2024, he is a lecturer at the Collegium Verum in the department of personalistic personality psychology. She is working on a doctorate in psychology, studying the relationship between Edith Stein’s philosophical anthropology and classical personality measurements.
She is a member of IASPES (International Association for Studies on Edith Stein’s Philosophy).