Olga Movchan

Gestalt therapist, clinician, trainer, teacher, supervisor, member of EAGT, UKAGT,GPTI, UKCP and director of educational programs.

Current projects

I work in individual and group formats, in person and online, primarily in the Gestalt therapy paradigm.

  • Psychotherapy in clinical practice

    Psychotherapy in clinical practice

    Anxiety disorders, depression, neurotic states, panic attacks, OCD, working with somatic symptoms

  • Supervisions

    Supervisions

    Supporting psychotherapists in their professional lives

  • Professional and personal crises

    Professional and personal crises

    Including creative stoppages, difficulties in realizing conceived ideas and projects, relationship problems, and experiencing grief

  • Gestalt therapy training

    Gestalt therapy training

    Specialization Supervision Training Program

Once upon a time, I came up with a motto for myself - I want my life to be “less painful and more beautiful”. In fact, my entire professional activity, and even my path into the profession, is about this.

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PUBLICATIONS

ORPHANHOOD, PROPAGANDA AND THE COMMUNIST DREAM

ORPHANHOOD, PROPAGANDA AND THE COMMUNIST DREAM

From 2016 to 2019, I interviewed one hundred people from different professions living in Moscow

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HOW NOT TO TURN INTO A SEASIDE RESTAURANT

HOW NOT TO TURN INTO A SEASIDE RESTAURANT

In 1998, I was in New York for the first time and went to Brooklyn to see Brighton Beach

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"AN EMIGRANT HIMSELF SOMETIMES DOES NOT REALIZE THAT HE IS IN CRISIS, AND HIS ENVIRONMENT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IT": AN INTERVIEW WITH PSYCHOTHERAPIST OLGA MOVCHAN

"AN EMIGRANT HIMSELF SOMETIMES DOES NOT REALIZE THAT HE IS IN CRISIS, AND HIS ENVIRONMENT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND IT": AN INTERVIEW WITH PSYCHOTHERAPIST OLGA MOVCHAN

On the emigrant crisis and overcoming it in an interview with Kommersant UK

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What nostalgia is and why it occurs

What nostalgia is and why it occurs

The nature of nostalgia, how to handle it so as not to harm yourself and others

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About how family ghosts help you survive tough times

About how family ghosts help you survive tough times

About where the feelings of shame, guilt and fear that are passed on to children from their parents come from and how to deal with them (especially in times of war)

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Psychosis 2022

Psychosis 2022

In terms of psychopathology, the movement from neurotic experience to borderline experience is a movement toward a more severe state. The next state in terms of severity is psychosis

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Time in the work of a Gestalt therapist

Time in the work of a Gestalt therapist

Time is like air. We may not notice it, but as long as we are alive, we cannot escape our relationship with time

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Rudeness in psychotherapy

Rudeness in psychotherapy

The art of the therapist is largely about turning potential hubris (revealing, exposing the intimate, the hidden and the shameful) into healing power

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Ingenuity and beauty

Ingenuity and beauty

The reflections I want to share in this text were born while working on an article I was asked to write for a collection on Beauty and Ugliness

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Scrap

Scrap

If they tell you that tramal drugs do not have a quick addictive effect, don't believe them. They do, and they do it very well

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Artistic Psychotherapy Time

Artistic Psychotherapy Time

Fyodor Efimovich Vasilyuk wrote that psychotherapy is an art, the art of transitions between chronotopes. According to Vasilyuk, it is this feature of psychotherapy that makes it similar to art, and time in psychotherapy - to artistic time

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The lockdown legacy

The lockdown legacy

About how our relationship has changed in the new reality

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Russia's border state

Russia's border state

Lack of support in the period of growing up and the ability to manage their emotions often develops in people a tendency to black-and-white assessment of reality and the willingness to drastically change assessments, writing others as enemies or friends

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When the war is over

When the war is over

On recovering from the pandemic

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INTERVIEW WITH NIFONT DOLGOPOLOV

INTERVIEW WITH NIFONT DOLGOPOLOV

Amazing, warm and insightful, psychotherapist, coach, supervisor, teacher, author of a number of articles and books

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INTERVIEW WITH V. MOSKVICHEV

INTERVIEW WITH V. MOSKVICHEV

We met with psychologist, family psychotherapist, narrative practitioner Vyacheslav Moskvichev on his birthday

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In New York City

In New York City

Many many years ago in New York, I accidentally met Fr. Yakov, a priest of a foreign Russian church

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