Elizaveta Zaikina (MSc)
Sexologist & Clinical Psychologist
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About me
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.
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Approach
I work within a bio‑psycho‑social, evidence‑based framework: I lean on academic psychology, medicine, and hands‑on healthcare experience. This means I can usually tell when we’re dealing with a psychological issue, and when it’s time to bring in a medical doctor and which one. I help people formulate the right questions for physicians instead of blaming everything on “it’s all in your head” and take care of the cases when it really is.
We can work on different levels:
– putting together the general picture and deciding what tests/questions/hypotesis actually make sense;
– unpacking the social context around sexuality (partner, family, culture, shame);
– or going deeper into the psychological patterns that silently break sex or make it joyless.
Because of my psychological background I don’t stop at “how to spice things up in bed”. I’m more interested in why this particular person’s sexuality is organized the way it is — and what exactly we can do about it.
All sexual dysfunctions can be treated. My job is to find a key.
