Ksenia Yurievna Mikhailenko

Education:

• Kyiv Institute of Modern Psychology and Psychotherapy (clinical psychology, master's degree);
• Kyiv Gestalt University.

Membership in associations, societies; attending conferences, thematic improvement courses:

• M. P. Dragomanov National Pedagogical University “Fundamentals of Sexology and Sexopathology”;
• Manchester Gestalt Center “Working with Dreams”;
• KSU, specialization “Working with different types of psychological trauma in the Gestalt approach”;
• Israel Trauma Coalition “Crisis psychological assistance”;
• Psychological Crisis Service “Military psychology for psychologists.”

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• working with low self-esteem, “inner critic,” feelings of shame. Support in forming a stable self-image, developing self-acceptance, confidence, and the ability to rely on one's own needs and boundaries;
• Assistance in coping with loneliness, difficulties in close and partner relationships, and recurring scenarios in relationships. Working with attachment, fear of intimacy or rejection, establishing emotional contact and interaction skills.
• Psychological support in the grieving process after the loss of loved ones, breakups, and significant changes in life. Assistance in the gradual integration of experience;
• working with the consequences of psychological trauma, symptoms of PTSD, prolonged stress, and maladjustment. Assistance in reducing the intensity of intrusive memories, anxiety, physical tension, and restoring a sense of security and control;
• Support for low mood, apathy, loss of interest in life, increased anxiety, panic reactions, and emotional instability. Working with internal conflicts, exhaustion, and regaining the ability to feel and act;
• Psychotherapeutic support for people with psychotic disorders in remission. Working with emotional regulation, interpersonal difficulties, anxiety, stigmatization, developing self-support skills, and improving quality of life in collaboration with a psychiatrist;
• psychological assistance to couples in times of crisis. Working with communication disorders, frequent quarrels, insults, loss of trust and intimacy. Support in exploring the dynamics of the couple, the needs and boundaries of each partner, restoring contact or making conscious decisions about the further development or termination of the relationship;
• pathopsychological diagnosis.

Tell us about your professional interests other than your specialization:

• psychiatry;
• body-oriented therapy.

Hobbies, favorite movies, books:

• floristry and detective stories

Doctor's advice:

• “Psychological counseling is not just about crisis. Caring for your mental health requires regularity: noticing tension in time, not accumulating exhaustion, and maintaining inner balance.”