Education
Education and Professional Training
✓ Two higher educations
✓ Master of Psychology (Petro Mohyla University)
✓ Psychotherapist, member of NAGTU
✓ Clinical Psychologist: clinical specialization, psychiatry propedeutics
✓ CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy)
✓ DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy)
✓ Body-oriented psychotherapy
Long-term specialization courses:
✓ Theories of mental development of personality from birth to the end of the life cycle
✓ Age-related crises at all stages of life
✓ Work with various types of trauma, including PTSD and CPTSD
✓ Psychotherapy with various forms of violence and aggression:
- psychological pressure or humiliation
- sexual harassment, abuse, violence
- sexual incest
- family and child abuse
- mobbing in work teams
- bullying
- military aggression and its consequences
✓ Advanced course on working with clients in borderline crisis
✓ Additional directions and courses:
- Basics and practice of CBT
- Anxiety disorders
- Depression
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
- Basics of modern psychosomatics
- Work with eating disorders (ED) and body image
- Consciousness and body
- Psychology of financial behavior and money relationships, career development
- Various additional trainings and short-term courses, webinars
This list is not exhaustive — I am constantly expanding my knowledge and skills to work even deeper and more effectively.
Professional Development
✓ Annual schools, intensives, and conferences
✓ Regular personal therapy and supervision
✓ Participation in supervision and therapy groups
✓ Continuous self-study and knowledge updates
Professional experience
7 years of practice
Areas of focus
- Specializes in working with teens aged 14 and up, as well as adults, providing a safe space for self-expression—especially for LGBTQ+ individuals. Focuses on identity exploration, crisis support, managing anxiety and depression, processing trauma (including PTSD, CPTSD, and effects of violence or aggression). Helps clients adapt to new life circumstances, embrace body acceptance, recover from burnout, and address panic disorders, codependency, grief, and eating disorders. Each case is approached with deep respect for the client’s unique story and needs.
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