Adriatika

I have graduated from Moscow Institute of Psychoanalyses as a gestalt oriented psychologist specializing in trauma & dependencies and modern crises. I have lived and worked in diverse cultural and professional contexts. I am ready to support you through various crises including existential, identity, change, relationships or age-related. Become aware of life patterns that were once helpful and now need reevaluation. Assist you in finding resources to go through change.
I am ready to support you in difficult times and help you find new meaning in every experience you go through.

I am a psychologist and Gestalt therapist. I live in Amsterdam.
Clients often come to me when life looks “mostly fine” from the outside, but inside there is a sense of being stuck. There may be a lot of tension, little support, and repeated conflicts in relationships. Many feel tired all the time and are not sure where to move next. Sometimes this happens after relocation, sometimes because of work pressure, and sometimes because old ways of coping no longer help.
Before becoming a psychologist, I worked for many years in international business and finance. I know what it is like to live with constant responsibility, deadlines, and the need to stay in control. This experience strongly shapes how I work as a therapist. I focus on real life situations, not ideal states or abstract ideas.
I work with individuals, couples, and families. In couples therapy, we do not look for someone to blame and we do not practice “correct communication.” We explore the moments where contact is lost, what each partner feels at that time, and what they are actually trying to achieve. This is often where change becomes possible.

Areas I work with:
stress, anxiety, and burnout
relationship difficulties, repeated conflicts, emotional distance in couples
relocation, expat life, living between cultures
perfectionism and self-pressure
life crises, career change, relocation, loss of stability
feelings of emptiness, exhaustion, or loss of meaning

I specialise in working with attachment disorders, depressive states, sexological issues, relationships, separation, and grief. I have completed training in sexology, couples therapy, working with psychosomatic manifestations, and RPP.

Since childhood, relationships between people have been of great value to me and have sparked my curiosity. This interest led me to psychology.
For me, therapy is a way to piece together the fragments of my life and find my own meaning. And to not be alone on this path, but alongside another person.

In the process of working, a wide range of feelings may - and will arise – from joy and euphoria to pain and grief, from pleasure and gratitude to anger and disappointment. But it is precisely the shared experience of all these states with another person that makes it possible to find ways to endure them and make your life a little brighter, a little better, step by step. A therapist can be the first person who is able and willing to accompany you on this difficult journey, and I can be that person for you, taking an interest in your story and your life.

Welcome to therapy! Let's get on with this journey together!

I am an analytical psychologist and art therapist working with individuals and groups. I have nine years of professional experience, including three years of analytical practice.
I specialize in trauma, family relationships (including adoption and non-biological parenthood), adolescent work, life crises, and neurotic conditions (panic attacks, psychosomatic symptoms, obsessive thoughts and behaviors).
I am also a mother of six children, including one adopted child, and have personal experience of living in emigration. This deeply informs my sensitivity to themes of identity, belonging, family bonds, and resilience.

Practising Psychologist, medical background.

I work with the consequences of trauma, loss, post-traumatic stress disorders (PTSD, CPTSD), depression and anxiety. My clients are adults who may feel a sense of emptiness, loss of meaning, chronic fatigue, or difficulty managing everyday life.

I use a psychodynamic approach and Emotional-Imagery Therapy (EIT), integrating knowledge from neuroscience and selected CBT techniques. This approach helps to understand internal processes more deeply, process difficult emotions, and gradually restore inner stability and resilience.

My first degree is in medicine, which allows me to consider the connection between mind and body, recognise subtle manifestations of stress, and structure therapy to be both gentle and effective.

In therapy, I provide a safe space where it is possible to be honest with oneself, explore emotions, and discover new ways of coping with challenges. The work supports clients in regaining clarity, everyday energy, and a sense of inner steadiness.

I provide couples and individual therapy.

If you have feelings of inferiority, shame, guilt, fears, loneliness
and anxiety or if you are dealing with revaluation of meanings and
values when one "can't go on the old way, but doesn't know a new way
yet", this is the place, where you can get your much needed support.
I help my clients to regain their self-belief, resilience, setting
personal boundaries, and come along when going through crises due to
various complex life events (change of career, divorce, relocation,
betrayal, loss of someone or something, etc.). I adhere to principles
of equality and I do not blame, judge or make any assumptions for the
client. No judgement of clients' choices and views regardless of their
race, nationality, sex, sexual identity, faith and social status.
I worked in addiction centers (alcohol, drugs and gambling), community
funds for parents of children with special needs, and in state
fertility programs.
I will be more than happy to offer my knowledge and experience.

I am a Gestalt psychotherapist, and I assist individuals facing complex life situations such as immigration, grief, separation, relationship difficulties, and more. My goal is to provide a safe and nonjudgmental space where you can explore your emotions, thoughts, and experience, ultimately gaining new perspectives and insights. Together, we will explore the complexities of your unique situation and foster positive changes in your life.

​I am a clinical psychologist specializing in the psychodynamic approach. I am regularly engaged in personal therapy and participate in supervision to maintain a high professional standard and the quality of my work. Clients often come to me with concerns related to:

- childhood trauma,
- decision-making,
- anxiety,
- depression,
- the process of separation and individuation,
- interpersonal relationships,
- self-definition and identity.

In my practice, I rely on strict ethical principles and an individual approach to each client. I would be glad to support you on your path toward deep self-understanding and healing from traumatic experiences.

I work with adults who want to better understand their emotions, patterns in relationships, and the choices they make in personal and professional life. In therapy, we focus on recognizing feelings, expressing them safely, and understanding how they influence everyday decisions and interactions. I use the Gestalt approach, working with what is happening here and now while connecting it to the past experience when relevant.

Before becoming a Gestalt therapist, I spent over ten years working with groups across Europe as an educator and trainer (for international volunteering association and later Council of Europe), supporting leadership development, communication skills, community initiatives, international mobility and migration-related topics. This background strongly shapes my therapeutic work, especially with topics of boundaries, responsibility, self-esteem, identity, assertiveness, adaptation to change and migration-related experiences.
I completed my Gestalt therapy training according to EAGT standards and continue regular personal therapy, supervision, and peer intervision. I work in line with professional ethical standards, with confidentiality and a non-judgmental attitude.

More precisely, I work with:
- difficulties in recognizing and expressing emotions,
- recurring patterns in personal and professional relationships,
- personal boundaries and the ability to say “no”,
- self-esteem and self-confidence,
- assertiveness and self-expression,
- decision-making in personal and professional life,
- responsibility and self-support,
- adaptation to change, relocation, international mobility, and migration-related experiences,
- challenges in group dynamics and teamwork.