The struggles and questions I work with

• Existential anxiety

• A sense of being lost in life

• Avoiding freedom and its choices

• The challenges of growing up and maturing

• Difficulties in interpersonal relationships

• Emptiness and the feeling of an incomplete life

• Joylessness

• Existential and philosophical searching

• Religious and Christian search for meaning

• Support in understanding philosophy

Biography

I graduated with honors from the Faculty of Psychology at Lomonosov Moscow State University, and in 2006, I defended my PhD thesis in psychology. I am a translator of several works by S. Kierkegaard from Danish and the author of more than 50 scientific publications.

Currently, I am an associate professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the RGGU (Russian State University for the Humanities). I teach courses on existential philosophy and the history of psychology. I host a reading seminar on M. Heidegger's "Being and Time", and periodically conduct reading seminars on the works of late Heidegger and S. Kierkegaard.

I also lead groups for dasein-analysis-oriented supervision and a dasein-analytic workshop on working with dreams.

My areas of scientific interest include the philosophy of J.G. Hamann, S. Kierkegaard, M. Heidegger, and the dasein-analysis of M. Boss.

Accreditations and Memberships

• Alliance for Existential Consulting and Care (ECCA)

• Moscow School of Christian Psychology

Professional Education

Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Education

• Psychologist, Teacher of Psychology — Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2000.

• PhD in Psychology (specialty 19.00.01) — Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2006.

• Additional education program "Workshop on Individual and Group Psychotherapy", Moscow City University of Psychology and Education. Faculty of Psychological Counseling, 2001.

• Additional education program "Foundations of Perinatal Psychology and the Psychology of the Reproductive Sphere";

• Sessions 1-7 of the additional education program "Psychological and Methodological Support for Running Courses for Parents";

• Seminar "Working with Associative Cards for Beginners";

• Seminar "Sand Therapy in Working with Perinatal and Reproductive Issues";

• Seminar "Key Diagnostic Methods and Techniques of Psychological Work in Counseling and Psychotherapy";

• Additional education program "Development and Upbringing of Infants, Toddlers, and Preschool Children", Institute of Perinatal Psychology and Psychology of the Reproductive Sphere, 2015-2017.

Dasein-Analysis Education

• Second Summer School on Contemporary Dasein-Analysis, Center for Interdisciplinary Humanities Research (Minsk), 2016.

• 3rd Summer School on Dasein-Analysis "Passivity and Freedom in Psychotherapeutic Interaction" (participation and masterclass hosting), "Harmonia" Institute for Psychotherapy and Counseling, 2017.

• Roland Strobl's seminar "The Therapeutic Relationship as the Foundation of Psychotherapeutic Practice. What remains of transference and countertransference: a dasein-analyst's perspective", "Harmonia" Institute for Psychotherapy and Counseling, 2018.

Core Principles of My Approach

1. Where there is difficulty, there lies an opportunity.

2. How to be? — This is not a question of knowledge, but a question of freedom and responsibility.

3. One can only truly recognize oneself in one's own capacity to be by choosing to choose.

4. A choice is a step into the unknown, but never into the indifferent.

5. No-alibi in being (M. M. Bakhtin).

Current Groups, Courses, and Projects

• Reading seminar on "Being and Time" by M. Heidegger

• Dasein-analysis-oriented supervision group

• Dasein-analytic workshop on working with dreams

Languages

I offer consultations only in Russian. I read in German, English, and Danish, and I am currently learning Modern Greek.

Format of Work

Online. Occasionally, in-person in Moscow.