Services - English speaking psychologist

Individual psychotherapy

I provide personality-oriented individual psychotherapy focused on adaptation to life, creative self-realization and growth of a client.

Generally speaking I help my clients and guide them. We can do important psychological work together. Psychotherapeutic process usually means the following.

Processing and healing of psychological, emotional trauma. Discovering one’s personality traits and finding the way for optimal adaptation to life. Completing tasks of psychological development, personal growth and restoring healthy self-esteem.

Working through a personal crisis, age or relationship crisis, loss of somebody or something important, for example, – death of a close one, loss of health, divorce, break up, etc. I work with intrapersonal and interpersonal psychological problems, the short list of which you can find on the main page.

My work involves exploration of a client’s psyche. I listen, ask questions and share observations. I try to understand how a client thinks and feels. I think about a client during the session, analyze their patterns, build an image of their life in my mind.

I act authentically in contact with a client, according to my understanding of a psychotherapeutic goal and client’s zone of proximal development. Classical definition of psychological health is one’s ability to receive pleasure and joy from close, intimate relationships; work and professional activity; and play and hobby. The results of therapy usually can be seen in one of these areas.

Psychological counseling

During a counseling session you may receive examination, analysis, clarification and assessment of a problematic situation. Also receive some recommendations regarding possible ways of solving the problem. Counseling often involves psycho-education.

The method of psychotherapy is to create a client-therapeutic relationship, an environment in which a client could solve their psychological problems. The counseling approach is somewhat different. Counseling is more short-term in comparison with therapy.

Therapy takes more time because the nature of psychological functioning in many people is such that it needs time to lower psychological defenses, so that a client and a therapist get access to psychological material that needs to be worked through.

In counseling, we do not spend time to overcome the resistance of defenses, but work with what we have at the moment. It is possible because not all clients have maladaptive subconscious defenses. It means that we can get to the bottom of things without spending much time. Also, not all people need major or deep changes in their personality structure.

In my view, counseling requires from a specialist as much competence and experience as psychotherapy does. Because we’re supposed to recognize, understand and sort out the situation within a considerably shorter time frame.

Counseling format works for people, who do not need to dive into personality-oriented psychotherapy aimed at transformation and processing of major conflicts, subconscious complexes and trauma.

Couples counseling

Every couple has conflicts and misunderstandings from time to time. If it has gone too far I can help you to restore normal communication with each other. I provide additional support in communication. It will be easier to talk through everything in the counseling session. I can help you to make your communication more meaningful and deep.

I can help you to notice specifically what is not working in your couple, where you faced a deadend. I share my observations and comments regarding peculiarities of your contact with each other and the situation in general. During the session you will talk with each other and with me. Couples counseling may help you understand what is going on, become aware of something important about each other and find solutions to improve relationships.

Usually couples come with such problems as:

Communication problem;
Crisis of trust;
Relationship or family crisis;
The problem of borders and codependency;
Mutual blaming;
Lack of mutual understanding;
Resentment;
Jealousy, betrayal, suspicions;
Lack of satisfaction from sexual life;
Conflicts

English speaking psychologist

I am fluent in English. There are quite a few English speaking clients in my practice, both native speakers and not. I love working in English with people from all over the world. Communicating in English brings me much pleasure.

I started learning it when I was fifteen. First, three years at the courses of English language, then another three years at the university. After that I used it non stop at all my jobs. Finally, I put it into practice in my psychotherapeutic work.