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A space to find your own ground again - and what truly matters to you.
Psychotherapy and counseling in English and Russian for adults and adolescents.
Existential counselor,
Clinical psychologist
AREAS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING
There are significant events in life that can literally knock the ground out from under us. When living the old way is no longer possible, but the new way is not yet clear. A crisis state is a rupture in the normal course of human life, which a person is trying to overcome.
The presence of a psychotherapist can help endure, find support when inner strength is lacking, and turn toward reflection and meaning-making — in search of orientation within a changed reality.
The presence of a psychotherapist can help endure, find support when inner strength is lacking, and turn toward reflection and meaning-making — in search of orientation within a changed reality.
Fear and anxiety are natural feelings we all experience. Fear usually comes from something specific we can name, like a dangerous situation. Anxiety, on the other hand, can feel like a general unease or tightness inside, even when we’re not sure why. It can make everyday life feel overwhelming.
Aim of psychotherapy is to help by creating a safe space to talk about these feelings, understand where they come from, and learn new ways to cope. Anxiety isn’t just something to fix or avoid—it’s a signal. When we take time to understand it, we often discover what really matters to us and find new strength in ourselves.
Aim of psychotherapy is to help by creating a safe space to talk about these feelings, understand where they come from, and learn new ways to cope. Anxiety isn’t just something to fix or avoid—it’s a signal. When we take time to understand it, we often discover what really matters to us and find new strength in ourselves.
With feelings, life awakens within us. We often underestimate their significance in everyday life, yet they add color and texture to it. These may be experience of music, good food, relationships, loss, pain, or difficulties.
Loss of access to some emotional experience can occur for various reasons — from exhaustion to the impact of difficult life events and trauma, which may lead to depressive states.
Therapy focuses on decompressing and grounding, gaining awareness of one’s state, working through trauma, and restoring access to personal values.
Loss of access to some emotional experience can occur for various reasons — from exhaustion to the impact of difficult life events and trauma, which may lead to depressive states.
Therapy focuses on decompressing and grounding, gaining awareness of one’s state, working through trauma, and restoring access to personal values.
Meaning is a topic that barely touches some people, while for others, it stirs deep pain. A sense of meaninglessness can create lasting discomfort, diminish quality of life, block motivation, and sometimes even take away the joy of living.
To have meaning is to be on a path; losing it means losing direction.
Therapy helps reconnect with personal values and find a path that feels meaningful again.
To have meaning is to be on a path; losing it means losing direction.
Therapy helps reconnect with personal values and find a path that feels meaningful again.
Immigration is not just a change in location — it’s a profound existential shift. Leaving behind familiar language, culture, and relationships often leads to disorientation, isolation, and a sense of loss. This can manifest as inner emptiness or a loss of meaning, emerging gradually during the adaptation process. Adjusting to a new life may require more than practical changes but a deep internal reorientation.
Therapy aims to explore this disruption with openness and self-reflection. Find support, reconnect with inner values. Gradually integrate new experience and find a renewed sense of meaning in unfamiliar surroundings.
Therapy aims to explore this disruption with openness and self-reflection. Find support, reconnect with inner values. Gradually integrate new experience and find a renewed sense of meaning in unfamiliar surroundings.
To exist means to always be faced with a choice (Søren Kierkegaard): choosing among the specific possibilities of each particular situation, ultimately deciding to be yourself or missing yourself.
How can a person determine whether they have missed themselves or not?
For this, self-understanding is necessary— knowledge of oneself, an approach to oneself, and, above all, a relationship with oneself. This is the essence of self-experience.
In the end, comes the knowledge of one’s strengths and weaknesses, affects and moods, an understanding of motives—and this helps in making decisions about how to live one’s life.
How can a person determine whether they have missed themselves or not?
For this, self-understanding is necessary— knowledge of oneself, an approach to oneself, and, above all, a relationship with oneself. This is the essence of self-experience.
In the end, comes the knowledge of one’s strengths and weaknesses, affects and moods, an understanding of motives—and this helps in making decisions about how to live one’s life.
AREAS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING
There are significant events in life that can literally knock the ground out from under us. When living the old way is no longer possible, but the new way is not yet clear. A crisis state is a rupture in the normal course of human life, which a person is trying to overcome.
The presence of a psychotherapist can help endure, find support when inner strength is lacking, and turn toward reflection and meaning-making — in search of orientation within a changed reality.
The presence of a psychotherapist can help endure, find support when inner strength is lacking, and turn toward reflection and meaning-making — in search of orientation within a changed reality.
Fear and anxiety are natural feelings we all experience. Fear usually comes from something specific we can name, like a dangerous situation. Anxiety, on the other hand, can feel like a general unease or tightness inside, even when we’re not sure why. It can make everyday life feel overwhelming.
Aim of psychotherapy is to help by creating a safe space to talk about these feelings, understand where they come from, and learn new ways to cope. Anxiety isn’t just something to fix or avoid—it’s a signal. When we take time to understand it, we often discover what really matters to us and find new strength in ourselves.
Aim of psychotherapy is to help by creating a safe space to talk about these feelings, understand where they come from, and learn new ways to cope. Anxiety isn’t just something to fix or avoid—it’s a signal. When we take time to understand it, we often discover what really matters to us and find new strength in ourselves.
With feelings, life awakens within us. We often underestimate their significance in everyday life, yet they add color and texture to our life. These may be experience of music, good food, relationships, loss, pain, or difficulties.
Loss of access to some emotional experience can occur for various reasons — from exhaustion to the impact of difficult life events and trauma, which may lead to depressive states.
Therapy focuses on decompressing and grounding, gaining awareness of one’s state, working through trauma, and restoring access to personal values.
Loss of access to some emotional experience can occur for various reasons — from exhaustion to the impact of difficult life events and trauma, which may lead to depressive states.
Therapy focuses on decompressing and grounding, gaining awareness of one’s state, working through trauma, and restoring access to personal values.
Meaning is a topic that barely touches some people, while for others, it stirs deep pain. A sense of meaninglessness can create lasting discomfort, diminish quality of life, block motivation, and sometimes even take away the joy of living.
To have meaning is to be on a path; losing it means losing direction.
Therapy helps reconnect with personal values and find a path that feels meaningful again.
To have meaning is to be on a path; losing it means losing direction.
Therapy helps reconnect with personal values and find a path that feels meaningful again.
Immigration is not just a change in location — it’s a profound existential shift. Leaving behind familiar language, culture, and relationships often leads to disorientation, isolation, and a sense of loss. This can manifest as inner emptiness or a loss of meaning, emerging gradually during the adaptation process. Adjusting to a new life may require more than practical changes but a deep internal reorientation.
Therapy aims to explore this disruption with openness and self-reflection. Find support, reconnect with inner values. Gradually integrate new experience and find a renewed sense of meaning in unfamiliar surroundings.
Therapy aims to explore this disruption with openness and self-reflection. Find support, reconnect with inner values. Gradually integrate new experience and find a renewed sense of meaning in unfamiliar surroundings.
To exist means to always be faced with a choice (Søren Kierkegaard): choosing among the specific possibilities of each particular situation, ultimately deciding to be yourself or missing yourself.
How can a person determine whether they have missed themselves or not?
For this, self-understanding is necessary— knowledge of oneself, an approach to oneself, and, above all, a relationship with oneself. This is the essence of self-experience.
In the end, comes the knowledge of one’s strengths and weaknesses, affects and moods, an understanding of motives—and this helps in making decisions about how to live one’s life.
How can a person determine whether they have missed themselves or not?
For this, self-understanding is necessary— knowledge of oneself, an approach to oneself, and, above all, a relationship with oneself. This is the essence of self-experience.
In the end, comes the knowledge of one’s strengths and weaknesses, affects and moods, an understanding of motives—and this helps in making decisions about how to live one’s life.
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It is never too little if I do only what I can. This is everything. This is fullness. This is what it means to exist.
Alfried Längle, M.D., Ph.D., Professor
About the method
Existential Analyses
Something in you has been asking a question — perhaps quietly, perhaps persistently. Not "what is wrong with me?" but something deeper: Am I really living? Is this life truly mine?
Existential Analysis is a form of psychotherapy rooted in existential philosophy and decades of clinical practice.
We work with what is difficult and no longer functions — anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, loss of direction — and we go further, toward the deeper conditions that allow a person to genuinely inhabit their own life.
Existential Analysis is a form of psychotherapy rooted in existential philosophy and decades of clinical practice.
We work with what is difficult and no longer functions — anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, loss of direction — and we go further, toward the deeper conditions that allow a person to genuinely inhabit their own life.
At the heart of this work is what in existential thought called Zustimmung — inner consent: the felt sense of a genuine yes to the life I am living.
We begin with you — with what your experience is telling you, and with what your life is calling you toward.
This is honest, attentive, and sometimes courageous work.
I welcome you to reach out for an initial conversation.
Learn more
We begin with you — with what your experience is telling you, and with what your life is calling you toward.
This is honest, attentive, and sometimes courageous work.
I welcome you to reach out for an initial conversation.
Learn more
About the method
Something in you has been asking a question — perhaps quietly, perhaps persistently. Not "what is wrong with me?" but something deeper: Am I really living? Is this life truly mine?
Existential Analysis is a form of psychotherapy rooted in existential philosophy and decades of clinical practice. We work with what is difficult and no longer functions — anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, loss of direction — and we go further, toward the deeper conditions that allow a person to genuinely inhabit their own life.
At the heart of this work is what in existential thought called Zustimmung — inner consent: the felt sense of a genuine yes to the life I am living.
We begin with you — with what your experience is telling you, and with what your life is calling you toward.
This is honest, attentive, and sometimes courageous work. I welcome you to reach out for an initial conversation.
Existential Analysis is a form of psychotherapy rooted in existential philosophy and decades of clinical practice. We work with what is difficult and no longer functions — anxiety, depression, relationship difficulties, loss of direction — and we go further, toward the deeper conditions that allow a person to genuinely inhabit their own life.
At the heart of this work is what in existential thought called Zustimmung — inner consent: the felt sense of a genuine yes to the life I am living.
We begin with you — with what your experience is telling you, and with what your life is calling you toward.
This is honest, attentive, and sometimes courageous work. I welcome you to reach out for an initial conversation.
Existential Analyses
accreditation
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Federation for Existential Therapy in Europe -
International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis -
Faculty of Psychology of M.V. Lomonosov
Our Advantages
Federation for Existential Therapy in Europe
International Society for Logotherapy and Existential Analysis
Faculty of Psychology of M.V. Lomonosov