Kateryna Ovchar
Clinical Psychologist & Gestalt Therapist
Heal carefully, work honestly, study always. “Primum non nocere”
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About me
Doctor of emergency medical care and disaster medicine. 6 years of work experience in an emergency team. Сlinical psychologist with a second higher education, master's degree in psychology. The master's thesis was devoted to the study of the problem of emotional burnout of emergency medicine doctors in Kyiv in the conditions of COVID-19 pandemic. The results of the scienti�c master's work were published in the form of a separate article in a scienti�c journal "Minerva Psichiatrica" as "Psychological factors of emotional burnout of emergency medical workers in a COVID-19 pandemic" in 07.2022. Have been running a private psychological practice for adults and teenagers for more than 3,5 years . I have about 400 hours of personal therapy experience, work under supervision in the supervision group of the All-Ukrainian Community of Psychotherapists Practicing the Gestalt Approach. Member of American Psychological Association (2025). In 2022 I relocated with my children to Poland. We’d been there for 1 year and then returned to Kyiv in 2023. Divorced and have 2 children of 17 and 7 yo. Love reading, horseriding, riding a bike, streerworkout and hiking, cooking and baking, chessplaying and traveling
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Media Gallery
Approach
I work in Gestalt modality with including of some CBT techniques when there is a need. I am compassionate, warm, careful and giving-time-and-space therapist. I follow the client in his processes and speed, I don’t push and don’t judge, but give support and soft presence. All cases are different, individual and specific, but each time I do my best to listen and hear the client and achieve his personal goals in therapy
Experience
Emergency Medicine Service in Kyiv - doctor 2010 — 2016 Performed the duties of the head of the emergency medicine brigade.
Private psychological practice (virtual and in-person) – clinical psychologist, gestalt therapist 2021 — ongoing I provide consultations in short-term help and long-term therapy for adults and adolescents from 13 years old
Social Service Center in Chekhovice-Dzidzice (Poland) in-person – clinical psychologist 06.2022 — 09.2022
- conducting psychodiagnostics;
- short-term individual and group counseling of refugees from the war in Ukraine;
The KonTerra Group, LLC (USA) remote - clinical psychologist 12.2022 — ongoing
Education
National Medical University of O.O.Boghomolets 2003 — 2010, Doctor specializing in emergency medical care and disaster medicine
Kyiv Institute of Modern Psychology and Psychotherapy 2019 — 2021, Clinical Psychologist (Master of Psychology) The results of the scientific master's work were published in the form of a separate article in a scientificjournal "Minerva Psichiatrica" as "Psychological factors of emotional burnout of emergency medical workersin a COVID-19 pandemic" in 07.2022
Ukrainian Gestalt Institute in All-Ukrainian Union of Psychologists Practicing Gestalt-Approach 2018-2024, Gestalt therapist In 02.2022 appeared with three other psychologists as an invited expert in the "Life" column of the Ukrainian edition of the "Correspondent" magazine on the topic of how to talk to children about the war
Wesleyan University Feb 2024, Suicide Prevention (by Assistant Professor of Psychology Alexis May)
Johns Hopkins University Mar 2024, Psychological First Aid (by Associate Professor George Everly, Jr, PhD)
American Psychological Association Dec 2024, “Less stress Better health” National Association of Gestalt Therapists of Ukraine
Feb 2024 - Feb 2025, “Working with Traumatic Experiences in Gestalt Therapy” Ukrainian Association of Teachers and Psychologists
Apr 2025, “Cognitive-behavioral model in psychological conseling of adults and children”
Services
Intro Call
Individual Session
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