Education
2012-2013. Zaporizhzhia National Technical University. Department of Psychology. Specialty 'Psychology'. Master's degree diploma.
2008-2012. Zaporizhzhia National Technical University. Department of Psychology. Specialty 'Psychology'. Bachelor's degree diploma.
Additional education:
2025. Course in Clinical Psychology. Alfred Nobel University.
2025. Training in the course 'Fundamentals of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy' by UpPro School and Central European University;
Advanced course in Crisis Support and Stabilization by ComplexTrauma Institute since January 2025 (in progress).
2024. Training in the program 'Problem Management Plus (PM+)'. Course on working with military personnel and veterans 'Techniques of trauma-focused CBT in PTSD treatment', 'Techniques of trauma-focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy'.
2023. Course 'Integrative Somatic Tools for Releasing Tension in the Body'
2022. Institute of Health Psychology '8-Step Program for Working with Loss for Adults, Children, and Adolescents'.
2015-2016. Kyiv Gestalt University. Specialized program 'Working with Trauma and Loss in Gestalt Approach'
2011-2013. Kyiv Gestalt University. Advanced training in practical psychology and psychotherapy.
Professional experience
Since July 2025, a counseling psychologist with the mobile team at the Right to Protection NGO. From July 2022 to June 2025, a psychologist with the mobile team providing social and psychological support at the Smile UA NGO. Between 2016 and 2022, a school psychologist at the Matviivka General Education Sanatorium Boarding School of Grades I–III in Zaporizhzhia region. Since 2014, a volunteer psychologist with the Zaporizhzhia Psychological Crisis Service.
Areas of focus
- Relationship issues, abuse, stress, anxiety, emotional burnout, crises, trauma, loss, adaptation challenges, low self-esteem, intrusive thoughts, psychosomatic symptoms, and depressive states.
Methods used approaches and techniques
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