"Psychotherapy is too valuable to be reserved only for clinic patients."
Interview with Olga Movchan on how clients' requests to psychotherapists have changed over the past 100 years
Olga Movchan
Gestalt therapist, clinician, trainer, teacher, supervisor, member of EAGT, UKAGT,GPTI, UKCP and director of educational programs.
I work in individual and group formats, in person and online, primarily in the Gestalt therapy paradigm.
Psychotherapy in clinical practice
Anxiety disorders, depression, neurotic states, panic attacks, OCD, working with somatic symptoms
Supervisions
Supporting psychotherapists in their professional lives
Professional and personal crises
Including creative stoppages, difficulties in realizing conceived ideas and projects, relationship problems, and experiencing grief
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.
Learn more about mePrograms
THE "TRY ON THE THERAPIST'S GLASSES" PROGRAM IS NOW OPEN
Try on the therapist's glasses
This group is for those who want change in their lives and are interested in exactly how psychotherapy works. You will have the opportunity to learn and experiment with some psychotherapeutic tools.
recruitment for the thematic supervision program is underway, with the first meeting of the next set of the program scheduled for November 12, 2024
Online thematic supervision
The program focuses on specific experiences, risks, and strategies for working with clients in different clinical settings. Starting this fall, we are offering an online version of this project.
BASIC GESTALT THERAPY TRAINING PROGRAM
Basic gestalt therapy training program
I have been very lucky with my teachers. I have studied in Moscow, Italy and New York with wonderful therapists to whom I am eternally grateful. I continue to learn, particularly from colleagues I like, and am happy to share my experience and knowledge with clients, students and other therapists.
STARTED ON 01/27/2023
Gestalt therapist training program in online format
The program is created in accordance with EAGT standards, is oriented to the code of ethics and the list of competencies of a Gestalt therapist, combines the educational principles of the Gestalt approach, based on gaining knowledge through experience, and in-depth theoretical, methodological and practical training of program participants.
PUBLICATIONS
Read
ORPHANHOOD, PROPAGANDA AND THE COMMUNIST DREAM
From 2016 to 2019, I interviewed one hundred people from different professions living in Moscow
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
"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
What nostalgia is and why it occurs
The nature of nostalgia, how to handle it so as not to harm yourself and others
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
The lockdown legacy
About how our relationship has changed in the new reality
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
When the war is over
On recovering from the pandemic
INTERVIEW WITH NIFONT DOLGOPOLOV
Amazing, warm and insightful, psychotherapist, coach, supervisor, teacher, author of a number of articles and books
INTERVIEW WITH V. MOSKVICHEV
We met with psychologist, family psychotherapist, narrative practitioner Vyacheslav Moskvichev on his birthday
In New York City
Many many years ago in New York, I accidentally met Fr. Yakov, a priest of a foreign Russian church
Sign Up
Fill out the form below, we will answer your question shortly!
By filling out the form, I agree to the privacy policy and the offer contract
@omprograms
What is neurosis, and who are neurotics?
@omprograms
How does the perception of time change in different clinical conditions?
@omprograms
How psychotherapists in emigration can maintain professional connections
@omprograms
As a general rule, psychotherapists rarely work with psychosis. More often than not, a client with a psychotic experience is referred to psychiatrists. However, it is important for the therapist to understand what a psychotic experience looks like