Education & Experience
I came to psychoanalysis through linguistics — my first degree was as a linguist-translator.
I speak several foreign languages — primarily Italian, English, and Dutch, as well as Japanese. I am also learning Spanish and French in order to read professional literature.
Since 2012 I have been in training analysis with a psychoanalyst of the European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies, and I am currently in personal analysis with a member of the IPA.
Since 2019 I have been a member of RIPA, the Russian-Italian psychoanalytic association founded by the Italian psychoanalyst Valdimiro Pellicanò. I also worked as an interpreter for a series of his seminars.
Since 2021 I have been a member of the Association of Perinatal Specialists.
Between 2013 and 2016 I completed a second higher education degree at VEIP (psychologist-psychoanalyst), and finished continuing-education courses in Child Psychoanalysis, the Clinic of Phobias, Perinatal Psychology, the Intersubjective Approach in Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalysis of Oncology, the Psychosomatics of Relocation, the Psychoanalysis of Allergy, Sexology, and Practical Supervision.
Diplomas & qualifications
Professional Retraining Diploma, qualification “Psychologist-Psychoanalyst”
The diploma confers the right to practise professionally in the field of psychology and psychoanalysis.
- Type
- Professional retraining diploma
- Issued by
- East European Institute of Psychoanalysis (VEIP), St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2016
Bachelor’s Degree with Honours in Psychology (37.03.01)
A second higher-education degree; the state final examination was passed with distinction.
- Type
- Bachelor’s diploma (with honours)
- Issued by
- East European Institute of Psychoanalysis (VEIP), St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2016
Higher Education Diploma, qualification “Linguist, Intercultural Communication Specialist”, major “Theory and Practice of Intercultural Communication”
First higher-education degree — a state diploma of higher education.
- Type
- Higher education diploma
- Issued by
- St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts
- Year
- 2010
“Working with Sexological Topics in Psychological Counselling and Therapy”
A 48-academic-hour continuing-education programme.
- Type
- Certificate of continuing professional education
- Issued by
- LLC “Professional Integration”, St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2026
“Practical Supervision”
A 108-academic-hour continuing-education programme.
- Type
- Certificate of continuing professional education
- Issued by
- Sigmund Freud Institute of Psychoanalysis, St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2025
“Theory and Practice of Intersubjective Clinical Psychoanalysis”
A 72-hour continuing-education programme.
- Type
- Certificate of continuing professional education
- Issued by
- East European Institute of Psychoanalysis (VEIP), St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2016
“Practical Perinatal Psychology. Fundamentals of Group Work and Individual Counselling for Pregnant Women”
A 72-hour continuing-education programme.
- Type
- Certificate of continuing professional education
- Issued by
- East European Institute of Psychoanalysis (VEIP), St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2016
“Child Psychoanalysis”
A 90-hour continuing-education programme; the final examination was passed with distinction.
- Type
- Certificate of continuing professional education
- Issued by
- East European Institute of Psychoanalysis (VEIP), St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2015
Certificates & seminars
“Working with Sexological Topics in Psychological Counselling and Therapy”
A 24-academic-hour regular seminar.
- Type
- Seminar attendance certificate
- Issued by
- edunote.ru (led by Elena Sinolitsaya)
- Year
- 2026
“Relationships as a Space of Mutual Need and Vulnerability”
A 10-academic-hour conference.
- Type
- Conference attendance certificate
- Issued by
- Association of Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy Specialists (edunote.ru)
- Year
- 2025
“Emigration in the Psychoanalytic Approach: A French Perspective. Languages of the Unconscious. The Self and the Big Other”
A 6-academic-hour regular seminar.
- Type
- Seminar attendance certificate
- Issued by
- edunote.ru (led by Marina Kulikova)
- Year
- 2025
“Allergy in Psychoanalysis”
A 24-hour theoretical programme plus 8 hours of supervision, EARPP Moscow regional branch.
- Type
- Certificate of attendance
- Issued by
- European Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (EARPP)
- Year
- 2025
“Psychoanalysis of Oncology”
A 24-hour theoretical programme plus 8 hours of supervision, EARPP Moscow regional branch.
- Type
- Certificate of attendance
- Issued by
- European Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (EARPP)
- Year
- 2023
“Psychosomatics of Relocation”
An 18-hour theoretical programme plus 6 hours of supervision, EARPP Moscow regional branch.
- Type
- Certificate of attendance
- Issued by
- European Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (EARPP)
- Year
- 2023
“The Psychoanalysis of Passions: Envy, Resentment, Jealousy, Shame, Guilt. Passions in the Psychoanalytic Process”
A 38-hour theoretical programme, EARPP Samara regional branch.
- Type
- Certificate of attendance
- Issued by
- European Association for the Development of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (EARPP)
- Year
- 2022
“Skin in Psychoanalysis: From the Skin-Ego to a Thinking Self. Theory and Clinical Practice”
International seminar by Dr. Jorge C. Ulnik; 9 hours of seminar plus 4 hours of supervision.
- Type
- Seminar attendance certificate
- Issued by
- International Psychoanalytical Center for Families, St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2021
International Seminar with Dr. Otto F. Kernberg “Narcissistic Personality Disorders”
52 hours of seminar with 15 hours of concurrent supervision.
- Type
- Seminar attendance certificate
- Issued by
- International Psychoanalytical Center for Families, St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2016
Conference “Love. Between Suffering and Healing”
A YASNO EDU conference.
- Type
- Conference attendance certificate
- Issued by
- YASNO Educational Products
- Year
- 2024
5th APS Scientific-Practical Conference “Perinatal Practices. Roads to Motherhood”
Conference attendance, 10 academic hours.
- Type
- Conference attendance certificate
- Issued by
- Association of Perinatal Specialists (APS)
- Year
- 2024
Case Conference “Working with Narcissistic Dynamics”
A YASNO edu conference.
- Type
- Conference attendance certificate
- Issued by
- YASNO Educational Products
- Year
- 2024
YASNO Conference “Psychotherapy of a New Era”
Conference.
- Type
- Conference attendance certificate
- Issued by
- YASNO Educational Products
- Year
- 2023
Online Seminar Series “The Psychoanalysis of Passions”: “Shame and Guilt in the Psychoanalytic Process”
A 38-academic-hour continuing-education programme.
- Type
- Certificate of participation
- Issued by
- Center for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
- Year
- 2022
4th Conference on Child Psychoanalysis “Therapy of Psychosomatic Conditions in Children and Adolescents: What Child Psychoanalysis Can Offer”
Yekaterinburg; 10 hours of theory, 5 hours of practice, 1 supervision session.
- Type
- Conference attendance certificate
- Issued by
- ECPP Regional Branch, Child Psychoanalysis Section, Yekaterinburg
- Year
- 2019
Seminar and Group Supervision Series with Dr. Valdimiro Pellicanò
St. Petersburg; 24 hours of seminars and 18 hours of supervision.
- Type
- Certificate of participation
- Issued by
- Dr. Valdimiro Pellicanò (IPA, Italian Psychoanalytic Society)
- Year
- 2019
Special Course “The Theory of M. Klein”
Course completed.
- Type
- Certificate
- Issued by
- “ASM-Master” Psychological Studio, St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2017
Conference “Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis: Clinical Dialogues”
Conference attendance.
- Type
- Conference attendance certificate
- Issued by
- Interregional Center for Contemporary Psychoanalysis
- Year
- 2017
7th International ECPP Congress “Psychoanalysis in the Contemporary World and in My Life: History, Methodology, Theory and Practice”
St. Petersburg, 24 hours.
- Type
- Certificate of attendance
- Issued by
- European Confederation of Psychoanalytic Psychotherapies (ECPP)
- Year
- 2016
Seminar by Lorenzo Chiesa “The Clinic of Phobia”
Seminar completed.
- Type
- Certificate of completion
- Issued by
- Freud-Lacan School / Freud Museum of Dreams, with the support of the European University
- Year
- 2016
Russian-French Scientific-Practical Conference “New Psychoanalytic Approaches to Working with Psychoses”
St. Petersburg.
- Type
- Certificate of attendance
- Issued by
- St. Petersburg Psychiatric Hospital No. 1 named after P.P. Kaschenko / Russian Society of Psychiatrists
- Year
- 2015
“Fundamentals of Perinatal Psychology and Psychocorrection”
Online seminar, 12 hours.
- Type
- Certificate of continuing education
- Issued by
- Imaton Institute of Practical Psychology, St. Petersburg
- Year
- 2015