Nadiia Rekhtina

Trainer of levels one and two in gestalt therapy. Leads the programme on working with the body

• Certified gestalt therapist

• Practical psychologist

• Body Mind Gestalt practitioner

• Dance and movement therapist

• Trainer of levels one and two at KIGiP

«Gestalt therapy is a therapy of contact. And that is probably one of the things I value most. The principles of gestalt are close to me: here it matters to see that everyone is different, and that even so we can be in contact.

In gestalt, creativity and authenticity matter no less than theory and method. It is a way to discover and express your hidden potential, a constant opening of new facets for a fuller life.»

Issues Nadiia works with:

• difficulty in building relationships,

• psychosomatic illness;

• restoring sensitivity and contact with your own body;

• inner conflicts, crises, trauma and loss;

• eating disorders, emotional eating, bulimia, work with the theme of weight;

• difficulty in recognising your wishes and needs, the creative search for ways to express and meet them;

• inner and outer resources — how to notice, find and use them;

• the need for more self-expression, creativity, freedom and spontaneity.

Training in psychotherapy

• KIGiP, gestalt therapist. Lead trainer: Nataliia Turbovets and the senior trainers of MIGIP (levels one and two).

• Level three, «Working with groups in the gestalt approach». Teaching supervisors, international GATLA trainers: Jay Levin (USA), Irena Holuba (Latvia), Anna Tanalska-Duleba (Poland), Olha Dolhopolova, Oleksandr Yeremeiev (Kyrgyzstan).

• Institute of Integrative Psychology of Professional Development, Moscow. Integrative dance and movement psychology and psychotherapy. Lead trainer: A. Hirshon.

Higher education: Interregional Academy of Personnel Management, H. A. Aliyev Institute of Social Sciences and Self-Government. Specialisation: practical psychologist.

Specialisations in psychotherapy:

• Body Mind Gestalt, the body-oriented gestalt approach. Trainer Arye Burstein (Israel).

• Correction of eating disorders. Working with emotional eating. Long-term programme of the Institute of Psychological Research and Personal Development (Germany), supported by the Centre for Psychological Education and Continuing Development (Ukraine).

• Training and practice programme «Everything around is food» (Bodynamic Institute, Denmark).

• Working with psychosomatic illness through psychotherapy (International Institute of Development), workshop by V. Husiev

• Child and family integrative psychotherapy. European Association for Psychotherapy (supported by IAPM). Workshop by S. Roiz.

Continuing education

• Programme «Psychological work with couples: the body and relationships» (Bodynamic Institute, Denmark). Led by Lisbeth Marcher.

• Programme «Family psychotherapy» (IAPM, Kyiv). Teacher T. Frolova

• «Features of the therapeutic relationship in the therapy of eating disorders. Transference and countertransference», Yuliia Lapina.

• Intuitive eating in the therapy of eating disorders and the treatment of obesity, Vlad Bukhtoiarov

• CBT of body image disturbance (Susanne Gössl, Germany)

• Seminar «Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) in dysmorphia»

• Seminar «Eating disorders — psychodynamic and nosological approaches» (Institute of Contemporary Psychology and Psychotherapy, led by Lisabetta Cataneo)

• Seminar «Eating disorders», V. A. Rozanov

• Programme «Fairytale therapy and fairytale analysis» (School of Therapeutic Metaphor «Doctor Fairytale», Kyiv). Teacher R. Tkach.

• Programme «Psychological work with associative cards» (Ankor Psychological Centre)

• Course in BabyContact — a new direction of dance and movement classes for parents and babies from three months to three years. Led by the author of the method, Olha Zotova.

Nadiia about herself and about gestalt: «I have travelled a long way in gestalt and I know that this method helps a person heal — that is, become whole and live their own life.

By these general words I mean that gestalt helps you begin to feel yourself and your needs, and finds creative ways to bring about what you want.»