For me
I am a doctor - neuropathologist, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, sexologist, gestalt therapist, coach. Founder of the online training platform www.on-ed.com. Author of numerous articles, e-books and online courses.
In 2004 I graduated from the Crimean State Medical University, specializing in neuropathology, after which I specialized in psychiatry, and graduated with a specialization in psychotherapy.
From 2006 to 2010 I worked as a sexologist, psychotherapist and medical psychologist in a family planning center, department of sexology. I have conducted individual and family counseling, psychotherapy, organized numerous seminars and conferences. During this period I have studied:
- gestalt therapy
- Jungian analysis
- dynamic psychoanalysis
- positive therapy
- body therapy
- procedural therapy
- cognitive psychotherapy
- existential therapy
- Behavioral
- psychodrama
- systemic family therapy
- ethology
- art therapy
Common problems
While working at the family planning center, I counseled couples who could not conceive and were in complete despair. Couples where sex was no longer a pleasurable process of two people loving each other, but had become an act of childbearing. Interestingly, quite often medical tests showed no obvious reproductive problems in either partner. During counselling, we discovered various psychological reasons that prevented pregnancy. Together with the doctors we tried to help couples to start enjoying the moments of intimacy again and as a consequence the fruits of their love. Teamwork (doctors and psychotherapists) is important here, but also the desire of the couple themselves to solve the problem, to change something in their thinking and perception of the world.
The next problem that clients have approached me with, and continue to approach me with, is crises and trauma. Behind these two words is tremendous pain, fear, deprivation and sometimes the inability to live as you used to. It's panic attacks, and depression, and cancer, and loss of a loved one, and post-surgical issues, and support for loved ones of a sick person. Everything that divides life into two parts: before and after. In these cases, adequate psychotherapeutic support is of great importance. The quality of life, the ability to adapt to changed conditions, the resources for support, and sometimes the prognosis for the future depend on it.
When does a person need help?
Therefore, if you feel that you are not coping with the situation, you do not see a way out of it or you do not want to continue to bury yourself in your problems, then it is time to seek help from a specialist - a psychotherapist or a psychologist. When your car or refrigerator breaks down, you hardly start to repair it yourself. But with more delicate problems, who knows why many neglect the help of professionals, and the quality of your life and the lives of those around you depends on it.
- Sincerely, Olesya Jampolska
