Елена Анатольевна (Moscow) Psychologist

About Me

Before working as a psychotherapist, I devoted 21 years of my working career to the media field. Of these, for 9 years she managed divisions and enterprises in publishing companies. During this time, she acquired competencies in the field of building sales structures, marketing communications, and optimizing business processes of network projects. She ended her career as director of development for a federal media holding. But the key achievement of this stage was the understanding that the main value of any team, project or system is a person - realized and self-sufficient. Only by being like this can he be happy himself and make others happy - his children, parents, partner, the world and even his employer, if he wants.
When I started working as a psychologist, I already knew that people achieve their goals better and faster when they know where and why they are going. This is equally important whether they are working on a project or on themselves. Seeing the entire process allows for choice and active participation. We will discuss what you can do on your own and what you need to rely on the help of a psychologist. At our first free meeting, we determine how I can help you and what techniques and tools we will use to work with your request. In our work, we will discover things that prevent you from achieving the results you want, preventing you from moving forward and becoming the person you want to be.
The most common areas of work:
Goal setting (What do I want? Where and why am I going? How can I achieve what I want?...);
Self-determination (Who am I? What do I want?, What do I want to be?...);
Relationships with a partner, children, parents, colleagues, subordinates/management (Building new relationships. Ending conflicts, disputes. Exiting relationships. Losses, bereavements);
Attitude towards oneself (Self-respect. Self-confidence. Obligation. The right to make mistakes. The right to success. The right to life).
My job is to help you find contradictions and limiting patterns. Yours is to speak openly about your thoughts and feelings, describing what is happening in work and life in general. From my personal client experience, I know that productive work requires trust and mutual sincerity, and sometimes, great courage and perseverance. But I also know that a person who takes one step gets more opportunities than a person who remains in place.

My life position

The paradigm that I adhere to in my psychological practice and offer as another point of view or view of what is happening is: “When we encounter difficulties and cannot find a solution, this does not make us worse or weaker. The fact is that life more than we know." If you accept that this is true for just a second, you will see that there is always value in finding solutions. I’m talking about this as a living example of a person who changed his life at a fairly mature age and as an eyewitness to cardinal changes in the destinies of his clients. There are no late decisions!
Sometimes we are afraid of making mistakes because we will be judged. Sometimes we don’t take the initiative because we want to remain invisible. And sometimes we think it’s too late to change something. These are the “But...” that stop us and if not for them, dreams and desires would come true more often, but. . . It’s easier and safer this way, we’re used to it, and sometimes it’s the only way we can do it. But. . :) there is good news in this - we can change the strategy, use the existing personality structures, and then they will become your strengths, your tools for achievements and victories.

In addition to private psychological practice, I am the founder of an international educational center that provides assistance to young psychologists in establishing themselves in the profession. I provide supervision and individual professional consultations for psychologists. I work as a CBT psychologist in a psychological workshop. I give lectures on popular psychology in the libraries of the Central Library of the South-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow and kindergartens. I advise businesses on issues of conflict management, motivation and loyalty. I am part of a team of developers and managers of a service for creating electronic publications and product promotion catalogs, and a service for assessing employee competencies.

What will we do during the sessions?

One of the main approaches I use is CBT - it, as a key to further work, reveals the main cause of difficulties. We can see this in the first meetings and develop a plan on how to change it. For some clients, “seeing where to go” is enough to act independently. And perhaps you are such a person - one who values ​​time, who strives to get results here and now, with an emphasis “on the outside” (external achievements) - these are your priorities at this stage of life. For others, an important component of working with a psychologist is getting to know yourself, revealing personal potential and learning to build relationships not only with the outside world, but also with yourself. Here I give the client a choice, leaving him to decide on the duration and depth of the work. But know that you don’t have to choose, but solve both problems at the same time. On this path, we will not limit ourselves to CBT techniques, but will use techniques and tools from other approaches. It is important to me that the client understands what we do and why we do it. So that he has a complete picture not only of the reasons for the current situation, but also of ways to get out of it and about his role in this process. This will give the client knowledge about himself, his capabilities and his true desires. We will not change the world, we will not change other people, but we will do a lot for you today. We will answer I know who I am! I know I can! I know what I need this for!
Learning to recognize and subsequently act independently is the main goal of our sessions.