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about me

• The fruits of my efforts
• My journey into psychology began in 2005. After graduating from Moscow Finance Academy and ACCA (Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, one of the largest and fastest-growing international professional associations) I was able to build a career in international tax management. Starting as a consultant, and step by step becoming a tax director at major international accounting firms.

• A seed of doubt
• Although my career has been successful and fast-paced, I didn't feel happy - I felt vulnerable. I felt alien to both this job and this professional community. I was constantly in a state of "internal immigration" - everything felt alien. Even when I was speaking in my mother tongue, people didn't seem to understand me.

• Struggling with myself
• To get over this condition I practiced sports (I even got a black belt in taekwondo). Although temporary, it fascinated me and made me feel more confident. But still my sadness, anxiety, melancholy, and insecurity were with me, so I considered myself an unhappy and dissatisfied person. This was the reason for visiting a psychotherapist, which was also my first step into psychotherapy as a profession.

• Understanding
• My own path in psychotherapy was neither quick nor easy. I went to different schools, to different professionals, looking for "me" and "mine". It's been 15 years since my first meeting with a psychotherapist until now. I think that my motivation for changing to the profession of psychotherapy was the feeling that I could do something very important - this profession is about the human soul, the essence of life, and mentality.

• My profession
• People come to a psychologist with their worries, their grief, their concerns. When they feel unhappy and desperate when they cannot deal with it alone. I remember well my previous life - a world of documents, reports, and figures - very formal, aloof. Psychotherapy as a profession has become a very different world for me. I feel the meaning, value and great importance of my work.

• Basic principle
• Strange as it may seem, you need a great deal of courage to face yourself. Therefore, the basic principle of the psychotherapist's work is to create a safe space in which there is trust. It is trust that is woefully lacking in today's society of demands, oversight and control, built on feelings of shame, guilt and duty. In a world where one always owes something to someone and owes something to someone, one is guilty...