Iryna Demkiv is a psychologist, a specialist in psychotherapeutic counselling at the Ukrainian Union of Psychotherapists.
“The most valuable thing is the permission of others – young or old – to touch, to gently accompany them in the exploration of their inner worlds”.
I work with:
– adults)
– young people
– adolescents
– children
When I was a child, I loved to read, so I wanted to become a librarian or a literature teacher so that I could always have access to books. It was particularly interesting to observe different characters. A little later, I became interested in the factors influencing the formation and development of people, ethnic groups, and nations. That’s why I entered Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. The most valuable thing that the Mohyla Academy taught me was to learn. And gradually, I moved away from a more general, broader context and focused on the human “soul” (psyché).
The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, where I entered to study psychology, helped me with this. Then came years of continuous study, work, research, discoveries, disappointments, and again immense curiosity, accompanied by project teachers from Child and Youth Psychotherapy, the Lviv Institute of Mental Health, where I studied Psychoanalysis; child and adult psychiatrists from Psychiatric Propedeutics with the Truskavets School of Psychotherapy, who taught me to distinguish where the field of competence of a psychologist or psychotherapist ends, and a psychiatrist should be involved.
This was complemented by the specifics of neurodiagnosis and correction of children, art therapy methods and SANDPLAY therapy, and ABA therapy.
I have more than ten years of practical experience in psychoanalysis, supervision, intervention, conferences, groups… And finally, but perhaps most valuable, I have the permission of the important Others, young or old, to touch, to gently accompany them in the exploration of their inner worlds.
