Tamara Mykhaelian
Clinical Psychologist & Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Therapist
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Available for new clients
Psychotherapy helps us not just to heal pain, but to cultivate inner support and resilience, nurturing our strength and balance even when life feels complex and uncertain.
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About me
My path into psychotherapy began with medicine. As a psychiatrist, I developed a scientific and clinical perspective on the psyche — attentive, precise, and grounded in respect for its complexity and vulnerability.
Later, my professional life led me into the world of business. I worked as a top manager in large systemic companies and served as both an internal and external organizational consultant. This experience taught me to see not only individuals, but systems as a whole — their tensions, crises, points of growth, and ways to restore balance.
I am originally from Kyiv, a city where my inner resilience was shaped. Living in different countries and going through significant life transitions taught me flexibility and the ability to stay connected to myself, even when external supports change. My own therapeutic journey allowed me to transform personal qualities into professional tools: sensitivity into empathy, adaptability into flexibility and acceptance. Today, I live and work in Berlin.
My multilayered professional and personal experience enables me to work with the psyche as a living, multidimensional structure — where personal history, traumatic experience, bodily responses, and life context intertwine and call for a subtle, individualized approach.
I speak:
UkrainianRussian
Location:
Chausseestraße 86, 10115 Berlin, Germany
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Approach
Treatment Approaches
CBT: Cognitive behavioral therapyRecommended for those looking for practical support and accountability to change unhelpful thinking and behaviors.
EMDRRecommended for those dealing with trauma who want to process painful memories in a structured way to reduce their emotional impact.
Schema therapyRecommended for those who want to break out of negative patterns or "schemas" that they developed early in life and keep repeating.
In my work, I do not limit myself to a single therapeutic orientation. I integrate methods from different modalities, including Schema Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), EMDR, Gestalt therapy, and trauma-focused approaches.
The choice of method is never predefined. It emerges from the client’s concern, individual characteristics, and their current emotional and psychological state. What matters to me is not the application of techniques as such, but the creation of a living therapeutic process in which real change can take place.
For me, psychotherapy is not about finding universal answers. It is a journey toward one’s own truth — toward personal meaning and inner support. There is no right or wrong here; there is only what is genuinely valuable and authentic for you.
Experience
6 years in practice
Private Psychotherapy Practice, Berlin, Germany — Psychotherapist (since 06/2024)
Providing integrative psychotherapy for adults, applying methods from Schema Therapy, EMDR, CBT, Gestalt, DBT, and trauma-focused approaches.
Private Psychotherapy Practice, Ukraine — Psychotherapist
Individual psychotherapy with adults, applying integrative methods and supporting clients in finding personal resilience and balance.
Organizational Consultant & HR Director, Ukraine
Managing change initiatives, consulting organizations, coaching teams and leaders, and developing strategic HR solutions.
Private Psychotherapy Practice with Children, Ukraine — Psychotherapist
Individual sessions with children, development of therapeutic skills for different age groups.
Crimean Republican Psychiatric Hospital — Physician Intern
Clinical practice and patient care as part of medical training.
Education
• Kyiv Institute of Modern Psychology and Psychotherapy — Clinical Psychologist
• National University of Health of Ukraine, named after P.L. Shupyk — Psychiatrist
• Crimean Medical Institute — Physician
*** Professional Training & Specializations
• Schema Therapy Training Module — Dutch Institute for Schema Therapy
• Schema Therapy Program (Standard & Advanced Level) — Ukrainian Institute of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• EMDR Level 1 — EMDR Europe, Psychotherapeutisches Institut im Park, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
• ASSYST Training, Humanitarian Psychosocial Project — Czech Institute for Psychotraumatology and EMDR
• Basic CBT Techniques for Counseling and Coaching — Ukrainian Institute of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Psychosocial Consultation: Cognitive Behavioral Basics — Institute for Public Employment Training, Ukraine
• CBT - Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre
• Gestalt Therapy — East-European Gestalt Institute
• Dialectical Behavioral Therapy — PTSD — Deutsche AWP, Freiburg
• Theory Tools for Safe Trauma Therapy — Complex Trauma Therapists Network, UK
• Simple and Effective Trauma Stabilization Level 1–3 — EFT Institute Berlin
Services
Individual Session
€90 • 1 hr • Online & In-person
Couples Session
€120 • 1 hr 30 min • Online & In-person
Insurances
Private Pay
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Usually responds within 12 hours