My work concentrates on saying "yes" to life, on finding your personal time, core essence, meaning and fulfillment. Psychotherapy, consultations and coaching for individuals and groups in English and Russian.
My work concentrates on saying "yes" to life. It is a journey to find your personal time, the core essence, meaning and fulfillment. I have a PhD in psychology and I work with Existential Analysis and Logotherapy in English and Russian.
I specialize in life transitions, cross-cultural adaptation, endings, psychology of time, and existential questions (such as loneliness, grief, death and dying, loss of meaning and finding purpose). I work with: anxiety, depression, stress, burnout, career shifts, panic attacks, relationships, managing high uncertainty situations, traumas.
France is the seventh country that became my home (Latvia - USA - Russia - Spain - Sweden - Denmark - France). For over 20 years now I’m curious about the concept of time, which I do research and creative projects about.
I believe that "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced" (S. Kierkegaard). My approach is within the humanistic school (Existential Analysis), supplemented by own extensive research in the area of Psychology of Time.
I use phenomenological and person-oriented psychotherapy, which aims to create conditions for leading own life more freely and authentically, living more in line with ‘inner consent', with greater freedom and awareness. It is a journey to find the core essence, meaning and fulfillment.
In my practice I apply and integrate: Existential analysis, Psychology of Time, Narrative practices, Art-therapy, Positive Psychology, Mindfulness.
2016 - till present Private practice, Copenhagen, Denmark - working with expats, questions of cross-cultural adaptation; peak performance athletes with anxiety and panic attacks.
2015 - till present Lead Researcher, Head of the Board, Time Perspective Network; Copenhagen, Denmark
2014 - 2020 Lecturer, Independent Research supervisor, DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia; Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 - 2012 Post-doc, Department of Psychology, Umeå University, Sweden
2006 - 2009 Psychologist, “HR-Laboratory Human Technologies”; Moscow, Russia - Assessment of interests, skills and abilities and consultations on the career choice
2005 - 2006 Project group “Psychological support to the FC “Zenit”; Center of Personnel Technologies; Moscow, Russia - Area of expertise: "Time orientation, well-being, self-regulation, collective creativity".
2005 - 2008 Creator of the lab, Researcher, Coordinator, Research lab on time perspective and well-being, Moscow State University, Russia
Enrolled in the psychotherapy education at The Viennese School of Existential Analysis, London, UK (2020-)
Ph.D. degree in Psychology (Developmental and Acmeology) | Moscow State University of Psychology and Education; Russia (2004 – 2008)
Psychologist, clinical psychologist, teacher of psychology | M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University; Russia (2000-2004)
Courses: “Can a person change: From theory to practice of changes” | St. Petersburg State University, Russia, January 31 – February 5, 2020
Art Therapy. Inner dialogues and mental health, Institut for Kunstterapi, Denmark, September 11-15, 2017
10-day Vipassana Meditation course, as taught by S.N. Goenka | Lumbini, Nepal, December 2016
Children’s and Jungian Analysis | Moscow, Russia (2006-2007)