Anastasiia Shvets is a certified music therapist (international certification), teacher, correctional music teacher, member of the Association of Music Therapists of Ukraine and the Ukrainian Union of Psychotherapists, Master of Music.
“Life is like a road: you never know what’s waiting for you around the corner”
I work with:
- adults (including parents, caregivers, educators, professionals);
- young people (including those with SEN (ASD, ADHD, cerebral palsy, sensory disorders);
- adolescents (including those with SEN (ASD, ADHD, cerebral palsy, developmental delays, sensory-motor alalia, speech disorders, visual impairment, sensory disorders);
- children aged 3+ (including those with SEN (ASD, ADHD, cerebral palsy, developmental delays, sensory-motor alalia, speech disorders, visual impairment, sensory disorders).
I started my professional career as a guitar teacher, but after 10 years I decided to change my field of activity. In my work, I use various areas of music therapy: psychodynamic MT, Nordoff-Robinson method, Orff approach, J. Moreno’s musical psychodrama and elements of art therapy. I am the author of an emotional education programme for middle school children and has worked with older people (stroke rehabilitation and prevention), children and teenagers with visual impairments.
In addition to music, I enjoy painting and interior design. I get inspired by hiking, and I draw my resources from dancing.
My family raised 14 foster children.
I have 20 years of experience working with children with SEN, and 16 years of experience with family-based care.
My motto is to never give up!
My friends say about me: “Fair, demanding of herself and others, does not stop at what has been achieved, “mummy” – ready to hug, warm, support and help everyone, open-minded, everyone is equal to her”.
Main areas I work with:
- child-parent relationships;
- stress of children and parents;
- learning difficulties;
- self-esteem and socialisation;
- development and conducting trainings on the development of emotional intelligence for adolescents;
- self-cutting
- bereavement;
- undesirable behaviour in children;
- sensory deficits;
- development of the emotional sphere in children with SEN;
- development of communication skills;
- correctional work;
- panic attacks;
- contact (poor contact, lack of contact, lack of mutual understanding in relationships).
