London SE1 Southwark/Waterloo
I have been a psychotherapist for the past 15 years. I initially trained as a child psychotherapist and worked with children, young people and their families in Ukraine and Italy. For a long time, my main interests have been trauma, dissociation, Sandplay and infant observation.
Later, while still living in Kyiv, I trained as an adult analyst through the international programme of the Association for Analytical Psychology. It was there that my connection with London began — my first group supervisor was from the AJA, and both of my personal training supervisors were from London societies: the SAP and the BJAA. As well as one of my analysts who is also from London’s SAP.
So, when I left Ukraine due to the full-scale Russian invasion, my path naturally led me to London.
My first professional home in the UK was the Northern Irish Institute of Human Relations. Some time later, I joined the Association of Jungian Analysts, whose office is in London.
Before coming to psychoanalysis, I worked with image and storytelling in the creative industry for about fifteen years. This work remains of great importance to me. I take photographs, make videos, paint, draw, write, and work with music. In other words, I am an artist who stepped away from the studio for 15 years to become a psychoanalyst—and a psychoanalyst who has kept his artist’s studio.
I am originally from Moldova. I moved to Ukraine in 2009. I have worked extensively with children and adults of all ages who have been affected by the war in Ukraine since 2014.
Alongside my practice, I teach analysis and psychotherapy in Ukraine and Britain.
I see patients privately in Southwark. I offer analysis from one to five times a week. Besides English, I speak Ukrainian and Russian.