Iryna Sarzhenko

Recommended therapist at KIGiP. Leads level two of the gestalt therapy programme

My credo: I believe in the «butterfly effect». I believe that even a light touch, a compassionate presence, the attention and company of one person for another can have a healing effect. What a person needs first of all is another person.

Professional activity

• Certified gestalt therapist, trainer and supervisor of gestalt therapy programmes (certificates of the Moscow Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama);

• Practical psychologist of the highest category, psychologist-methodologist

• Family counsellor in positive family therapy

• Senior trainer at the Kharkiv Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama, leads educational programmes and specialisations for psychologists and psychotherapists

• Supervisor in the gestalt approach and in family counselling and psychotherapy

Issues she works with:

• individual gestalt therapy;

• group gestalt therapy;

• teaching gestalt therapy;

• family psychotherapy: work with couples and with parents;

• difficulties in communication and relationships;

• living through loss and loneliness, the period after a divorce;

• difficulty living through crises, creative and professional slumps;

• psychosomatic illness;

• unstable emotional states, anxiety, fears;

• work with dreams;

• counselling in situations of choice and decision-making, and more.

Specialisations in therapy:

• family counselling and psychotherapy, therapy with couples and with parent–child relationships

• working with groups in the gestalt approach

• working with themes of sexuality and sex in the gestalt approach

• working with traumatic experience

Training in psychotherapy:

• MIGIP, gestalt therapist.

• Level three, «Working with groups in the gestalt approach»,

• «Continuing education in gestalt therapy».

• Teaching supervisors, international GATLA trainers: Jay Levin (USA), Nifont Dolhopolov, Mariia Lekarieva-Bozenenkova, Juraj Rektor (Slovakia), Zhanna Lurie (Israel), Irena Holuba (Latvia), Anna Tanalska-Duleba (Poland), Olha Dolhopolova

• Diploma of the International Centre for Positive Psychotherapy, Transcultural Family Therapy and Psychosomatic Medicine, Wiesbaden Academy of Psychotherapy and Family Therapy (Germany).

• Higher education:

• H. S. Skovoroda Kharkiv State Pedagogical University

Co-author of the programmes:

• «Psychological counselling from A to Z»;

• Specialisation «Gestalt therapy and the systemic approach in work with families»;

• Specialisation «Working with the themes of sex, sexuality and sexual relationships in a couple in the gestalt approach»

• «The parents’ university»;

• «Sexuality. Gestalt. Meeting yourself and others»;

• «How to love and remain yourself»;

• Trainer of the programmes:

• Gestalt therapy, level one;

• Gestalt therapy, level two;

• Sexuality. Gestalt. Meeting yourself and others;

• How to love and remain yourself;

• Specialisation «Gestalt therapy and the systemic approach in work with families»

• Specialisation «Working with the themes of sex, sexuality and sexual relationships in a couple in the gestalt approach»

• Leads supervision and therapy groups

More than twenty years of experience in counselling and psychotherapy.