I
am an Integrative Gestalt Therapist and EMDR Practitioner, working with adults in London and online in both English and Russian.My professional background brings together several strands that continue to shape the way I work. Before training as a psychotherapist, I studied bioscience and worked in oncology diagnostics in Russia. This gave me a lasting respect for careful observation, complexity, and the ways psychological and physical processes can affect one another.My own experiences in therapy inspired me and guided me toward a career change. I completed a five-year training in Gestalt therapy at the Moscow Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama, qualifying in 2017, and began seeing clients in private practice in 2016. Since then, I have worked with adults from a wide range of personal, cultural, and social backgrounds, supporting them across many different kinds of emotional difficulties.After moving to London in 2019, I established my practice here and continued developing my work in the UK context. I am an accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS) and the Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute (GPTI), and I work in line with their professional and ethical standards. My practice is supported by supervision, ongoing professional development, and continued clinical training.Alongside my Gestalt foundation, I have continued to deepen my training in areas that are especially important to the way I work now. These include attachment and developmental understanding, trauma, PTSD, and complex developmental trauma. More recently, I completed accredited EMDR training in the UK, which has become an important part of my practice and allows me to work more directly with trauma and nervous-system-based forms of distress where appropriate.I bring not only training, but also a strong awareness of how cultural, social, and historical contexts shape psychological experience. Being of Kalmyk origin, I have a particular interest in collective and intergenerational trauma, and in the ways larger historical forces can live in individual lives, families, and patterns of relating. This broader perspective also informs my sensitivity to migration, adaptation, belonging, and the complexity of living between cultures.Becoming a mother has also deepened my interest in attachment and early development.Professional background and training
- Degree in Medical Biochemistry, Pirogov Medical University, Moscow
- Previous professional experience in oncology diagnostics / biomedical science
- Five-year Gestalt therapy training at the Moscow Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama
- Private psychotherapy practice since 2016
- Accredited member of the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
- Accredited member of Gestalt Psychotherapy Training Institute
- Accredited EMDR training in the UK
- Ongoing professional development in trauma, PTSD, complex trauma, psychodynamic and attachment-informed work