Certified Gestalt therapist

Lavrinenko Elena

Lavrinenko Elena
  • 4  requests from the site
  • 1  posted event
  • 6  years of experience
  • Online or offline
  • Crisis counseling
  • Ukrainian, Russian
of 1 200 ₴ / 50 min
Lavrinenko Elena

Higher public education

2019 – 2022 – Alfred Nobel University, specialty psychology. Diploma M22 № 10373.

Basic training programs for therapists

2017 – 2022 – Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art (MIGIS), "Theory and Practice of Gestalt Therapy" ( І,ІІ stage). Program led by V. Promyslovskyi. Certificate № ІІ-ДН-ПІД-0117-01.

2024 – until now – Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art (MIGIS), “Improvement in Gestalt Therapy” (ІІІ stage). Program led by V. Hrechka.

Specialized training of therapists

2019 – 2021 – Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art (MIGIS), specialized program "Gestalt therapy for children and parents". Program led by T. Zakharova. Certificate № ГГДП-СП-ДН-0119-10.


Therapist work formats

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Therapy Directions

  • Loneliness
  • Fear of close relationships
  • Can't find a match/build a relationship
  • Dissatisfaction with the relationship, the relationship is at an impasse
  • Trust issues, jealousy
  • Quarrels, conflicts, misunderstandings
  • Sex, intimacy
  • Relationship crisis (betrayal of one of the partners, relations have cooled)
  • Divorce. Parting. The gap
  • Sex, intimacy
  • Dependent/codependent relationship
  • How to live when your kids are older, "empty nest syndrome"
  • LGBT relationships
  • Free relationship
  • Misalliance (unequal marriages)
  • Conflicts on religious grounds
  • Self-realization problems in a couple
  • Conflicts with parents. Parental pressure (accusation, condemnation, imposition)
  • Involvement in family triangles
  • Questions of control, separation, responsibility
  • Feelings of fear, resentment, anger, guilt towards parents
  • Relationship with elderly parents
  • Relationship with the partner's parents
  • Fear of having a child in the family
  • Difficulty with pregnancy. Perinatal loss
  • Postpartum depression. Withdrawal from the decree
  • Mom's emotional burnout
  • Parenting with many children
  • Raising children in same-sex marriages
  • Joint upbringing of children by divorced parents
  • Raising children in remarriage
  • Psychological and social barriers to effective parenting
  • Disagreements between parents about teaching methods and parenting styles
  • Taking the conflict between spouses into the sphere of upbringing
  • Expanding the sphere of parental feelings
  • Phobia of loss of a child
  • Anxiety about intellectual, physical, or social development
  • Family triangles, the struggle for the child
  • Violation of the balance of permissions and restrictions
  • Asocial, destructive behavior of the child (leaving home, refusing to study, all kinds of addictions, prostitution, suicide attempts)
  • The child has difficulties with gender identity
  • Formation of clear goals for life
  • Career motivation and goal setting
  • Improving personal efficiency
  • Relationship with money
  • Difficulty achieving your goals
  • Dissatisfaction with your job
  • Professional crises: job loss, search for a new one, change of occupation, etc.
  • Relations with the team, bosses, clients
  • Professional burnout (fatigue, fatigue), stress
  • Burnout prevention
  • Procrastination (constantly putting things off for later)
  • Perfectionism, laziness, hyperresponsibility
  • Finding and knowing yourself, who I am and what kind of person
  • Disclosing your capabilities: potential, abilities, talents
  • Questions of self-determination, search for the meaning of life
  • Awareness and management of your emotions
  • Awareness of needs and desires
  • Social and communication skills
  • Age crises and crises of new life stages
  • Sexuality and gender
  • Self-esteem
  • Feelings, thoughts (resentment, shame, guilt, anger, etc.)
  • Difficulties in adapting to a new place
  • Language and mental barrier
  • The stress of emigration
  • Family or moving, what to choose and how to save?
  • The shame of presenting oneself in a new environment
  • A sense of loss
  • Experiences and condition (fears, anxiety, grief, etc.)
  • Depression
  • Stress, anxiety, fatigue
  • Long-term illness of loved ones
  • Diseases of evidence-based medicine with psychosomatic roots (bronchial asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes mellitus, arterial hypertension, gastric ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer, ulcerative collitis, neurodermatitis)
  • Sleep problems
  • Chronic fatigue
  • Speech difficulties
  • Eating disorder, food issues
  • Strange repetitive actions, tics
  • Panic attacks
  • Neuroses, anxiety
  • Body blocks, in particular jaw clamps
  • Frequent mood changes
  • High anxiety
  • Fears (age-related, situational, neurotic), social phobias
  • Stubbornness, whims, tantrums
  • Loss of interest and curiosity, apathy, passivity, depression
  • Low self-esteem, self-rejection, feelings of inferiority
  • Specific manifestations: shyness, tearfulness, deceit, fantasizing, theft, sneaking, excessive aggression or obedience
  • High conflict level, disobedience, excessive aggressiveness, antisocial behavior (deviance)
  • Inability to defend interests, defend their borders
  • Dependent (addictive) behavior
  • Addiction to gadgets
  • Learning problems (academic failure, memory impairment, impaired attention, etc.)
  • Child theft
  • Gender identity difficulties
  • Difficulties in communicating with parents, divorced parents, grandparents
  • Emancipation of adolescents from their parents
  • Adaptation in case of remarriage of parents
  • Competition, intense rivalry, envy
  • Conflicts, quarrels and fights
  • Jealousy of parents
  • Disunity, lack of support and cooperation
  • Inadequate claims to leadership or an outsider position
  • Lack of communication, refusal to communicate, or difficulty accepting into the reference group
  • Victim or initiator of bullying
  • Problems with friends, unrequited love
  • Specific manifestations of age-related crises
  • Difficult situations in the family (conflict relations, divorce)
  • Loss of a loved one
  • Adaptive difficulties due to relocation, change of place of study
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Lavrinenko Elena
Lavrinenko Elena
Psychologist | Certified Gestalt Therapist | Trainee Supervisor | Specializes in working with children and families

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