Professional education and practice

Education in psychotherapy

• Certified Gestalt therapist. Line trainer of the KIGiP program: Nataliia Turbovets

• Third level “Working with a Group in the Gestalt Approach”. Faculty and supervisors, international trainers of GATLA (Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles): Jay Levin (USA), Irena Goluba (Latvia), Anna Tanalska-Duleba (Poland), Alexander Eremeev (Kyrgyzstan), Olga Dolgopolova (Russia).

• Fourth level “International Long-Term Program: Theory and Practices of Supervision of the Therapist’s Work”. Graduation trainers: Jay Levin, Nataliia Turbovets.

• Integrative dance movement psychology and psychotherapy. Lead trainer: A. Girshon.

Higher education

Interregional Academy of Personnel Management. H. A. Aliyev Institute of Social Sciences and Self-Government. Specialization: Practicing psychologist.

Swiss Montreux Business School, Master in Psychology.

Specialization in psychotherapy

• Bodymind Gestalt, a body-oriented Gestalt approach. Trainer: Arye Bursztyn (Israel).

• Body-oriented Trauma Therapy (International University of Psychotherapy, Trauma Therapy and Body Practices), Galit Serebrenik-Hai (Israel–Norway)

• Correction of eating disorders. Working with emotional overeating. Long-term training program of the Institute of Psychological Research and Personality Development (Germany) with the support of the Center for Psychological Education and Professional Development (Ukraine).

• Training and practice program “Everything Around Is Food” (Bodynamic Institute, Denmark).

• Working with psychosomatic illnesses by psychotherapy methods (International Institute of Development), workshop by V. Gusev

• Child and family integrative psychotherapy. European Association for Psychotherapy (with the support of MAUP). Workshop by S. Royz.

• Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy. Basic level

• Clinical psychology, trainer Liv Vadum (Norway)

Continuing professional development:

• Project “Working with Trauma: Somatic Experiencing”, by the method’s author, trauma therapist Dr. Peter Levine (USA)

• Seminar series “Trauma Therapy” by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, psychiatrist, researcher of post-traumatic stress, author of the term PTSD.

• Webinar series “The Body as Movement Dynamics”, “The Therapist’s Bodily Experiences During War”, “Kinesthetic Resonance” by Ruella Frank, body-oriented Gestalt therapist.

• Program “Experiment in Gestalt Therapy” by Irena Goluba.

• Webinar series “Body Safety as a Basic State. Help in Creating Stability in Wartime Conditions” by Judy Berman Seligson, trauma therapist.

• Webinar series “Theory & Tools for Safe Trauma Therapy” by Babette Rothschild, trauma therapist.

• Seminar series “Clinical Psychology. Working with Characterological Clients” by Alexander Eremeev.

• Program “Psychological Work with Couples: Body and Relationships” (Bodynamic Institute, Denmark). Master: Lisbeth Marcher.

• Program “Family Psychotherapy” (MAUP, Kyiv). Lecturer: T. Frolova

• “Features of Therapeutic Relationships in the Therapy of Eating Disorders. Transference, Countertransference”, Yulia Lapina.

• CBT for body image disorders (Susanne Gössl, Germany)

• Seminar “Eating Disorders – Psychodynamic and Nosological Approaches” (Institute of Modern Psychology and Psychotherapy. Facilitator: Elisabetta Cattaneo, Italy)

• Seminar “Eating Disorders”, V. A. Rozanov

• Program “Fairy-Tale Therapy and Fairy-Tale Analysis” (School of Therapeutic Metaphor “Doctor Fairy Tale”, Kyiv). Lecturer: R. Tkach.

• Program “Psychological Work with Associative Cards” (Psychological Center “Ankor”)

Conference and festival trainer

Trainer at the conference “The Time of High Destiny” of the International Institute of Development; trainer at the International Conference on Practical Psychology “Co-training: Experience, Traditions, Innovations” of the Center for Innovative Technologies of Luhansk National University; lead of workshops at the ethno-esoteric festival “Fairy-Tale City”; lead of workshops at the eco-cultural festival “Trypillian Circle. Earth”; host of the festival “HobbyKhata”.

Trainer at conferences of the Kharkiv Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama.

Permanent trainer at conferences of the Kyiv Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama since 2016.