Areas of focus
specialization, area of professional interest
Working with children: fears (darkness, loneliness, fictional characters, loss of parents, animals, and other specific fears); anxiety, withdrawal, low self-esteem; difficulties in peer communication; aggressive behavior; stealing; hyperactivity and heightened excitability; tearfulness, unstable or low mood; post-traumatic states (loss of loved ones, accidents, violence, fright, parental divorce, etc.); adaptation to kindergarten and school; neuroses (tics, stuttering, nail-biting, enuresis, thumb-sucking, compulsive movements, etc.); assessment and correction of cognitive functions (attention, thinking, memory, speech, imagination); evaluating school readiness; learning difficulties. Working with adults: personal issues, lack of self-confidence, loneliness, loss of loved ones, grief processing, communication challenges, and life dissatisfaction.