Roksolana Malyi-Prasol is a psychologist, child and adolescent trauma therapist, sexologist, and member of the Ukrainian Union of Psychoanalysts.
“Healing does not mean that the earlier damage ceases to exist. Healing means that the damage no longer has control over life”.
I work with
- children
- teenagers
- parents
- and all adults who have ever been children 😉.
There is an opinion that the interest in being a psychologist is found in those who, first of all, have a personal need for healing. Perhaps there are other ways, but mine was exactly like that.
I had a job which suffocated me by the fact that the life energy I was spending was not making a useful contribution to humanity, or at least for one person. This experience was difficult and at the same time a turning point in changing my profession. I clearly realised that it was valuable for me to help those in need.
My therapist once told me about the ancient Japanese art of kintsugi, a technique for restoring broken jars, in which the fracture lines filled with gold resin formed a unique pattern, turning a seemingly useless jug into a work of art.
I believe that only by learning to heal our wounds, to cherish and love our scars, the unique and luminous pattern of our souls, only when this path of healing is known from within, can we be of use to someone else who also needs healing. We can and we must, because after all, that is what matters.
