Elizaveta Zaikina (MSc)

I got my bachelor’s in psychology ages ago (2017), between the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and the University of Bologna. After that I practiced, built a few projects, and eventually ended up running a regional psychological service in Russia and heading the clinical psychology department at Sirius University. Fairly early on I got stuck in the sex corner and never really left. I’ve been doing sex education and counseling, working with UNESCO and brands like Durex, Kotex and Kinky Party, trying to figure out how to talk to people about sex in a way that actually helps them, not just recite boring lectures about “the benefits of contraception”. Later I moved to Rome and graduated from Sapienza University in Clinical Psychosexology — basically a hybrid between medicine and psychology. I spent a lot of time in real clinical settings, including large chains of gynecology and fertility clinics, and that experience strongly shaped how I see sexuality and sexual health. I got my bachelor’s in psychology ages ago, between the Higher School of Economics in Moscow and the University of Bologna. After that I practiced, built a few projects, and eventually ended up running a regional psychological service in Russia and heading the clinical psychology track at Sirius University. Fairly early on I got stuck in the sex corner and never really left. I’ve been doing sex education and counseling, working with UNESCO and brands like Durex, Kotex and Kinky Party, trying to figure out how to talk to people about sex in a way that actually helps them, not just recite boring lectures about “the benefits of contraception”. Later I moved to Rome and graduated from Sapienza University in Clinical Psychosexology — basically a hybrid between medicine and psychology. I spent a lot of time in real clinical settings, including large chains of gynecology and fertility clinics in Russia, and that experience strongly shaped how I see sexuality and sexual health.