Olena Khrystych
(she/her)
Psychotherapist in training & Psychoanalyst in training
Verified by It's Complicated
Available for new clients
English and Ukrainian-speaking psychotherapist. Psychotherapy is a journey of two and I invite you to make it together. Only in the presence of the other you have a possibility to find out who you truly are.
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Your story is important.Feel free to contact me here if you feel that we could be a good fit.
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About me
Psychotherapy is my third major and it was a thoughtful decision, although it took me quite some time to get ripe and ready for this profession. My curiosity to explain unexplainable brought me to Vienna to study psychoanalysis at Sigmund Freud University. Currently besides working as a psychotherapist under supervision I also follow up with learning relational psychoanalysis and group analysis. Uniqueness of every psychotherapeutic relationship keeps me challenged at my work.
I speak:
EnglishRussianUkrainian
Location:
Vienna, Austria
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Approach
Treatment Approaches
PsychoanalysisRecommended for those who want to explore how their unconscious mind and early experiences affect their current behaviors and feelings.
Psychodynamic therapyRecommended for those looking to explore their emotions deeply and understand how past experiences shape their present life.
I am trained in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy. Both of them are talking cures, where a patient speaks the unspoken and while speaking the affects, fantasies and thoughts become real and have a possibility to decompress.
What are we going to do?
We will look back but move forward while reassessing your worldview and emotional baggage that you sometimes willingly and sometimes unwillingly collected through the years of experiencing interaction with people. We are going to discuss relationships, anxieties, fears, fantasies, impulses as well as other important issues, which should bring you to new insights, disillusionments, improve quality of life and quality of interpersonal relationships and decrease suffering.
Which one would fit you?
1) Psychodynamic psychotherapy is evidence-based short-term treatment, 1 or 2 times weekly. It is substantially based on psychoanalytical theory however the interpersonal relationship between client and therapist is also very important and is explored. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is focused on exploration of dynamic tensions (how inner forces (drives) respond to external demands, social influence, interpersonal relationships) and internal conflicts between 3 agents of psychic apparatus (id, ego, super-ego).
2) Psychoanalysis is in-depth, long-term treatment, usually at least twice a week. During analytic sessions therapist keeps distance in order to give space for the analysand’s unconscious fantasies, feelings and memories to come out. Beneficial for those who are curious to explore many WHYs and open the uncanny doors of their mind. Psychoanalysis gives a possibility to untangle how the unconscious impacts current behaviours, thinking processes, feelings and relationships. Main tools to be used: free association technique, dream analysis, transference/counter-transference analysis.
What are we going to do?
We will look back but move forward while reassessing your worldview and emotional baggage that you sometimes willingly and sometimes unwillingly collected through the years of experiencing interaction with people. We are going to discuss relationships, anxieties, fears, fantasies, impulses as well as other important issues, which should bring you to new insights, disillusionments, improve quality of life and quality of interpersonal relationships and decrease suffering.
Which one would fit you?
1) Psychodynamic psychotherapy is evidence-based short-term treatment, 1 or 2 times weekly. It is substantially based on psychoanalytical theory however the interpersonal relationship between client and therapist is also very important and is explored. Psychodynamic psychotherapy is focused on exploration of dynamic tensions (how inner forces (drives) respond to external demands, social influence, interpersonal relationships) and internal conflicts between 3 agents of psychic apparatus (id, ego, super-ego).
2) Psychoanalysis is in-depth, long-term treatment, usually at least twice a week. During analytic sessions therapist keeps distance in order to give space for the analysand’s unconscious fantasies, feelings and memories to come out. Beneficial for those who are curious to explore many WHYs and open the uncanny doors of their mind. Psychoanalysis gives a possibility to untangle how the unconscious impacts current behaviours, thinking processes, feelings and relationships. Main tools to be used: free association technique, dream analysis, transference/counter-transference analysis.
Experience
6 years in practice
2022 till present - Private praxis in Vienna and Kyiv
2020 - Internship at psychiatry wards, Lviv
2019 - Internship at SFU Ambulance, Vienna
2018 - Internship at homeless shelter Caritas "Zweite Gruft", Vienna
2020 - Internship at psychiatry wards, Lviv
2019 - Internship at SFU Ambulance, Vienna
2018 - Internship at homeless shelter Caritas "Zweite Gruft", Vienna
Education
- Master's degree candidate at Sigmund Freud University, Vienna
- Bachelor's degree at Sigmund Freud University, Vienna
- Psychotherapy training at PSI (Psychoanalytic Seminar Innsbruck)
- Training in Group Analysis at Lviv Psychoanalytic Institute
- MBA, Wisconsin International University in Ukraine
- Master's degree at Pedagogical University, Kyiv
- Bachelor's degree at Sigmund Freud University, Vienna
- Psychotherapy training at PSI (Psychoanalytic Seminar Innsbruck)
- Training in Group Analysis at Lviv Psychoanalytic Institute
- MBA, Wisconsin International University in Ukraine
- Master's degree at Pedagogical University, Kyiv
Services
Individual Session
€80 • 50 min • Online
Couples Session
€160 • 1 hr 15 min • Online
Insurances
Private Pay
At a glance
Your story is important.Feel free to contact me here if you feel that we could be a good fit.
Usually responds within 4 hours
Usually responds within 4 hours