Certified Gestalt therapist and Supervisor

Skyba Mariia

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14 years of experience
Online or offline
Ukrainian, Russian, English

3 500 ₴ / 50 min

“Truth is always beautiful.”
This line from my favorite film holds the essence of my work.
Don’t turn away. Truth is always beautiful —
even when it aches.
Even when it asks us to stay and truly see.

I am a certified Gestalt therapist and supervisor, in the field since 2010.
I work online and in Vienna, offering individual therapy, one-on-one supervision, and supervision for triads.

With academic backgrounds in medicine, literature, and psychology,
I approach each person as a whole —
with reverence for the body, the emotional world, and the personal story shaped by culture and experience.

After thirteen years of core training and certification in Gestalt therapy,
I continue learning from internationally recognized teachers and professors —
because I believe this profession calls for a gaze that stays clear and alive,
not blurred by what we’ve learned to overlook.

My intention is to create a space
where no one needs to hold it all together,
where pain is not silenced,
and beauty — still — finds a way to grow.

I live in Vienna. I love art, the quiet resonance of museums, the depth of exhibitions.
I see meaning in details.
The aesthetics of contact is my deepest love in Gestalt work —
the art of being fully with.
To witness. To hold. To remain.
To notice how even in darkness — something alive takes root.

I believe in the power of presence.
For me, beauty lives in the way we attend to what is real,
what is tender,
what is here.

If you’re drawn to presence —
not a role to play, but a felt sense of being —
perhaps we can create something true together.

2010-2015 - Vinnytsia State Pedagogical University. Master of Philology and Literature

2010-2015 - Vinnytsia National Medical University. Specialty - Pharmacology. Diploma C16 №004059.

2010 - 2015 - Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art (MIGIS), “Theory and Practice of Gestalt Therapy” (I, II stage). Program led by V.A. Hrechka Certificate No. ВН-0110-05

2019 - 2024 - Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art (MIGIS), “Improvement in Gestalt Therapy” (III stage). Program led by V.A. Hrechka Certificate No. III- ДН-0119-14

2013 - Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art (MIGIS), specialized program “Working with psychosomatic disorders in the Gestalt approach.” Program led by V.Нrechka, S.Mishchuk.

2019-2021 - Interregional Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Art (MIGIS), specialized program “Ironic-Paradoxical Provocative Therapy.” The program led by V.Hrechka, S.Mishchuk. Certificate №ИППГТ-СП-ВН-0119-14.

2020 - Instituto du Gestalt HCC Italy, specialized program “Working with eating disorders in the Gestalt approach.” Program led by M.Spagnolo Lob, I.Didkovskaya.

2024 - International Association of Experimental Gestalt Therapy, specialized program “Working with Addiction and Codependency in the Gestalt Approach.” Program led by A.Yudin. Certificate №07/24-AGT.

04-06.11.2021 - Online conference “Psychology of Crisis Situations:Science and Practice.”

28-29.02.2024 - Online conferences of the psychological platform psyFAQ.

16-19.07.2025 - Sigmund Freud University, Vienna, World Congress on Psychotherapy “Polarities of Life 2025”

05-07.09.2025 - International Conference on Gestalt Research.

Lectures

2020 - Michela Gecele, Vadim Hrechka — Criminal stories or a thriller? Research on psychological motives, addiction risks, and social effects in literature and cinema

2020 - Bertram Müller, Iryna Zakhar'ian — The concept of will and its trace in Gestalt therapy. Current issues in the course of volitional processes during the quarantine period

2020 - Michela Gecele, Vadim Hrechka — How to build relationships in narcissistic times. What can we learn from films?

2020 - Jan Rubal — The paradoxical theory of change in a new reading: from the perspective of modern field theory

2020 - Giovanni Salonia, lecture cycle

• Self Theory: re-evaluation and critical use

• Family Gestalt Therapy: theoretical framework and clinical application

• The Middle Voice and the atmosphere of the middle voice in Gestalt therapy

2021 - Lennie Ravich — On Gestalt, humour, and laughter

2022 - Peter Philippson, course "Existential Gestalt"

• Aggression and creativity

• Resilience and self-support

• The two faces of hatred

• Life and death

2022 - Giovanni Salonia, lecture cycle:

• Basic models of relationships

• Self Theory

• Evolutionary Theory

2022 - Alfried Längle, lecture cycle "Meaning and Fulfillment in Life. Logotherapy and Existential Analysis"

• Hope — maintaining the life of relationships

• How existential analysis and logotherapy work

2023 - Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb — "The situational therapist: aesthetic relational knowing and the 'dance' of reciprocity between therapist and client" Workshops and Symposia

2024 - Peter Philippson, course "Existential Gestalt"

• Life, death, hatred, resilience

• Self-support for those who support and work with loss

• Complex trauma: a personal and professional view

• Helplessness and obsession

• The phenomenon of pain in relationships and therapy

2024 - Bertram Müller — How to maintain integrity beyond fragmentation and isolation

2024 - Franz Mellemeister — In search of meaning: on Gestalt and spirituality 2024 - Ruella Frank — Kinesthesia — the prereflective background of experience

2025 - Peter A. Levine - Instinct and mind

2025 - Alfried Längle - The structure of existence: a phenomenological foundation for all psychotherapists

2025 - Mark Solms - The dreaming mind vs. the dream

2025 - Emmy van Deurzen - Purpose and paradox

2025 - Josef Nobel Freud - The family of Sigmund Freud

2025 - Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb - Aesthetic relational knowing of the therapist: factor validation of the ARK-T scale, adapted for the therapeutic situation 2025 - Omar Alshogre - Trauma as a driving force

2025 - Hamid Peseschkian - The global therapist: responding to the challenges of the 21st century with positive and transcultural psychotherapy

2025 - Sofia Lytvyn - Psychodynamic therapy beyond the couch: virtual reality 2025 - Hanna Marea Binder-Kita - Gestalt therapy and neurodiversity - a neuro-affirming perspective

2025 - Tetiana Shkoda - Psychological trainings for highly qualified Ukrainian war refugees in Poland 2025 - Emiline Clayde - Letting go of things: how the use of Gestalt tools can influence dance theatre practice

2025 - Mairéad Barry - The Gestalt psychotherapist in personal grief, facing disenfranchised grief in their therapeutic practice

2025 - Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb — The dance of intentional steps between therapist and client: a Gestalt therapy model for studying the therapeutic alliance and the process of change

2025 - Dan Bloom — In search of the rainbow

2025 - Constantina Ghioni, Tae Gogotishvili, Anna Kalmakhelidze, Barbara Pompe — Ethics: how can we benefit from doubt? A Gestalt therapy study of responsibility and dialogue

2025 - Ewa Dobiała, Enver Cesko, Lyudmyla Moskalenko — European Listening Room

2025 - Maria Clara Jost, Amintas Jacques Jost de Moraes — Psychotherapeutic interventions in depressive syndrome: a direct approach to the method of working with the unconscious in Personal Integration Therapy (ADI/TIP method) and its phenomenological anthropology

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3 500 ₴ 50 min

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Austria , Vienna

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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
Quarrels, conflicts, misunderstandings
Relationship crisis (betrayal of one of the partners, relations have cooled)
Dependent/codependent relationship
Conflicts with parents. Parental pressure (accusation, condemnation, imposition)
Involvement in family triangles
Questions of control, separation, responsibility
Mom's emotional burnout

Formation of clear goals for life
Career motivation and goal setting
Difficulty achieving your goals
Professional crises: job loss, search for a new one, change of occupation, etc.
Burnout prevention

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
Feelings, thoughts (resentment, shame, guilt, anger, etc.)

Difficulties in adapting to a new place
The stress of emigration
The shame of presenting oneself in a new environment
A sense of loss

Depression

Chronic fatigue

The therapist also conducts supervision

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Individual supervision

3 750 ₴ 60 min

Supervision of groups of three

6 000 ₴ 200 min

Therapist accepts:

Austria , Vienna

The time and place of the session is discussed personally with the therapist

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