Olena Statnyk

Level one trainer at KIGiP, leader of the training and therapy group on working with children and adolescents

Professional activity:

• Practical psychologist

• Child and family psychologist

• Certified gestalt therapist

• Trainer of level one in gestalt therapy

• Leader of the training and therapy programme «Working with children, adolescents and families»

Olena on gestalt

«In the gestalt approach I value sincerity, depth and honesty — the chance to explore how contact is built, to gain new experience and so to grow as a person.

I believe a gestalt therapist helps a person meet their real self, live through a mass of feelings that come with the reality they discover, learn to rest on that truth about themselves and move towards greater spontaneity and vitality.

I like to work thoroughly and without haste, accompanying the client on their path of coming to know themselves.»

Issues she works with:

• Parent–child relationships

• Anxiety states, panic attacks

• Lack of self-confidence

• Building relationships

• Professional self-determination, difficulties of professional growth

• Looking for resources and inspiration

Education:

• Drahomanov National Pedagogical University, psychologist

• Kyiv Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama — levels one and two (trainers: N. Turbovets, O. Marynushkina, S. Haidai, O. Zozulia, S. Sazonov)

• International continuing education programme for gestalt therapists of the Gestalt Associates Training Los Angeles (GATLA), KIGiP (trainers: Jay Levin, Robert Resnick, N. Dolhopolov, Anna Tanalska-Duleba, O. Yeremeiev, O. Dolhopolova)

• «Working with children and adolescents in the V. Oaklander model», trainer V. Zakharchenko

• «The clinical approach in gestalt therapy», trainer A. Yeremeiev, MIGIP

• «Systemic family therapy», trainers Z. Zankovska, O. Stepanova, MIGIS

• «Foundations of working with developmental trauma in the body-oriented gestalt approach», trainer E. Abramova-Kistaieva

• «Working with crisis and trauma», trainers Z. Hrihel, V. Malova

• «Working with themes of sexuality in the gestalt approach», KGU

• «The practice of psychological and pedagogical help: the eco-facilitative approach», trainer N. Makarchuk