The name “acceptance and commitment therapy” reflects a key message: accept what is out of your personal control, and commit to action that improves your life. It’s a very active form of therapy/coaching. It’s not just talking about your problems and feelings.

Our aim here is to work together as a team, to help you be the sort of person you want to be and build the sort of life you want to live. Part of this approach involves learning skills to handle difficult thoughts and feelings more effectively, so they have less impact and influence over you. When we introduce these skills, I’ll ask you to practice them between sessions. You don’t have to do that, of course; but it’s like learning to play a guitar or drive a car: the more practice you do, the better you get.

ACT also involves clarifying your values: finding out what matters to you, what you want to stand for in life, what strengths and qualities you want to develop, how you want to treat yourself and others.

I want you to leave here after each session with an action plan: something practical to take away and use to actively improve your life.

I studied with the best trainers in Russia and the world: Daria Suchilina, Russ Harris,  Kirk Strosahl & Patricia Robinson (pioneers of the therapy)

CFT a was originally developed for people suffering from shame and self-criticism, who did not respond to other interventions well (Gilbert, 2009а; Rector et al., 2000). CFT helps clients not to run from difficult thoughts and feelings but approach them with compassion, feeling safe and secure.

I did a course on CFT with the most prominent trainers in the field: Dennis Tirch & Laura Silberstein-Tirch

I’m qualified to conduct DBT skills training with Dr. Marsha Linehan  the founder of the therapy.
It can help with:

• mindfulness.
• distress tolerance.
• interpersonal effectiveness.
• emotional regulation.

Now I’m working on integration of its applicable skills into ACT (СЕ) 

I’ve studied individual, couples and family Emotinally-Focused Therapy with its founder , Dr. Sue Johnson

Restoring secure attachment can help you feel seen, soothed, safe and secure on your own and with your loved ones.

Mindfulness is the awareness that arises from paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally (Jon Kabat-Zinn, 2013)

First, I studied neurophysiology of mindfulness at programmes (1 and 2) of Monash University, Australia. Then, I delved into its history and philosophy at the programme of Leiden university, the Netherlands. I also participated in Snezhana Zamalieva’s course for trainers. Finally, I acquired indispensable skills of making my practices trauma-sensitive at Daria Suchilina’s course on ‘Cogntive therapy and Mindfulness skills for depression prevention’.

Assessing and Managing Suicide Risk (AMSR) is based on the latest research and is designed to support safer suicide care practices, such as Zero Suicide.  AMSR teaches a prevention-oriented risk formulation focused on planning not predicting (certificate)

graduated from Institute of Psychotherapy and Medical Psychology of Saint Petersburg (Russia) as a psychologist and teacher of psychology.

This added up to my first teaching degree – I’m a Cambridge qualified teacher and teacher trainer (CELTA, DELTA M1). At some point in my career I understood that it doesn’t really matter what exactly you teach. Indeed, be it languages or psychological flexibility, you still work with people, you steal align your actions with your values. And for me it means being gentle to people and the brain.

Apart from my basic education in psychology, I delve into particular aspects of it:

• Anxiety, depression and CBT ( University of Reading, UK)
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (University of Glasgow, UK)
• Sensation and perception (Monash University, Australia)
• Working with burnout (ShAD&Yandex, Russia)
• Gender and sexual variety (Psychodemia, Russia);
• Unpacking perfectionism (Praxis, the USA)
• Evidence-based psychotherapy of eating disorders (Psychodemia, Russia)