Andrew Bespalov

Currently, I offer three formats of work: == 1) Depth coaching There are three axes of psychological work: coaching, analysis, and therapy. Coaching is about building skills and achieving goals, analysis focuses on meaning and finding your direction, and therapy deals with suffering and healing. To use a simple metaphor: if you need to climb a wall, a coach will teach you effective climbing techniques; an analyst will help you recognize what exactly you hope to find up there and whether it is even the right wall. And if you have injuries that make it difficult or impossible to climb for now, you might need therapy. Of course, in the majority of cases we need a bit of all of that. That's why mixed formats emerge. One such format is Depth Coaching. It is based on Jungian psychology and combines elements of coaching, analysis and psychotherapy. Its main characteristics are: • Flexibility. Unlike therapy or analysis, which rely on a strict frame, the Depth Coaching format can bend to fit the specific needs of the moment. • Focus on exploration. It is less about fixing symptoms and more about respectful listening to the unconscious and understanding the deeper meanings of one’s inner states and behaviors. • Ability to hold paradox and ambiguity. Rather than pushing for clarity or quick outcomes, it allows space for the unknown, the unresolved, and the emergent. • Bridging depth and surface. It works to translate deeper insights into sustainable changes in everyday life. == 2) Behavioural Coaching (ADHD, AuDHD, Personal Effectiveness) Some problems have deeper psychological roots, but some don’t. Procrastination, for example, may signal that a person is living a life that is not truly theirs — but it may also be an unhealthy strategy they picked up earlier in life and haven’t learned anything better since. If you struggle with procrastination, stress, burnout, low resources, learning difficulties, information overload, managing habits, achieving goals, or having too many tasks and too little time, the core of the work may lie not in psychological depth but on the behavioural surface. This is especially true for neurodivergent people. Many of the difficulties they face are due to the simple fact that strategies that work for neurotypicals do not fit their neurology — and so they need some other strategies. Although such work on strategies is an important part of Depth Coaching, I also offer it as a separate format for those, for example, who are already working with a psychotherapist. I have had cases where this separation worked quite well: with me, a client searches for ways to translate the insights from their therapy into everyday life, and whenever I suspect that a “surface” problem may have deeper roots, I suggest that the client explore it with their therapist. == 3) Jungian Analytical work A coaching process, depth-oriented or otherwise, always works with something more or less specific. But sometimes the very inability to put a finger on anything is itself a big part of the issue: a forest dark and no straightforward pathway. In such moments, a Jungian approach is often more fitting than anything goal-directed. It invites you to pause, to unfold your life before you, and to regard it from unfamiliar angles. It encourages you to listen for quieter voices — the parts of yourself left behind on the road toward whatever you were striving for before you found yourself where you are now. Rather than asking how to fix things, Jungian work asks what is trying to emerge. By turning our attention toward dreams, imagination, symbols, vague feelings, and resurfacing memories, we can gradually recognize the subtle movements of the psyche toward individuation. And this is how the path forward begins to take shape. === As you might imagine, in practice these formats often flow into one another. The direction of this flow depends on your initial situation. If you find yourself constantly overwhelmed by stress and the chaos of daily life, then an outside-in direction makes more sense: whatever deeper issues you may carry, addressing them would require resources you lack at the moment — resources trapped under a pile of unfinished tasks and missed deadlines, or lost through procrastination and ineffective habits... If, on the contrary, your life is relatively smooth yet you feel unhappy or unfulfilled for no apparent reason, then an inside-out direction is more helpful.

2020-2025 – Private Consulting Practice 2016-2020 – Learning Experience Designer and Soft Skills Trainer (Namecheap) 2012-2013 – Thinking and Effective Learning Trainer (Kharkiv Center of Teen Psychology) 2007-2018 – Author of articles on psychology ("Our Psychology" magazine, monthly circulation: 65,000 copies)

2023-2025 – International Theory and Supervision Course in Jungian Psychotherapy (UJA/IAAP) 2018-2020 – Analytical Consulting and Jungian Psychotherapy Basics (UJA/IAAP) 2012 – MA in Practical Psychology (Kharkiv Pedagogical University) 2009 – Associate Trainer in Edward de Bono Thinking