Prygunova Svitlana

I came to psychotherapy with a higher technical, then a higher psychological education, dissatisfaction with my own life and an acute desire to help other people, because due to the nature of her work, for a long time she was faced with the imperfection of the healthcare system in relation to suicides (people who made a suicidal attempt). Like many others who came to the Gestalt Therapy training program, wanting to change something in themselves and in the world, at the beginning of the training, I vaguely understood the meaning of the word gestalt :)

Already in my second year of study in the Program, I began to practice individual therapy. In the future, she completed an internship with her teacher, Ph.D. Oleg Vladimirovich Nemirinsky and began to independently conduct her first programs. It is difficult to overestimate the significance of the experience and knowledge that my Teachers generously shared with me.

I received a huge amount of professional and human support while working with the inimitable, creative and charismatic Hrechka V. in his programs.

Over time, I was invited to conduct seminars and take exams in the programs of other teachers of MIGTIK, and after the formation of our institute, MIGIS worked in the Programs of colleagues.

Annual participation in conferences and intensives of two institutes, first in the client position, then in the therapeutic position, and later in the coaching position; personal therapy sessions; training in additional specialized and thematic programs; numerous master classes and lectures for students over the past 20 years; conducting long-term therapeutic programs and short-term seminars; extensive practice in individual therapy and family counseling - undoubtedly contributed to my professional growth and development.

Even during my education, I was lucky enough to observe many distinguished and talented domestic and foreign gestalt therapists at work. All of these factors have formed my stable professional identity and changed my personal history.

Therapy helped me to leave toxic relationships, create warm, trusting relationships with my child, parents, and partner, change my career path and find my place in life, my calling.

Currently, I am the head of training programs for Gestalt therapy at the first and second levels in Dnipro; I have released 4 long-term Gestalt therapy training programs. My graduates work as Gestalt therapists, lead their own projects, and have already become my colleagues - teachers and supervisors.

One of my author's developments is the specialized program "Therapy for Dependent Relationships," which has been successfully running since 2014 in Dnipro, and later in Kyiv, Vinnytsia, and Zaporizhia. I am also a co-author of the specialized program "Therapeutic Relationships" (developed jointly with Vadim Grechka); the author of the project "The Sexual Identity of the Therapist," and the author of many lectures and articles. I work individually with clients and couples with pleasure. I conduct offline and online supervision sessions for students and practicing students and psychotherapists.

My experience and interests in professional activity are quite broad, so the issues I work with are diverse. These include:

• Relationships in heterosexual and homosexual couples;
• "Triangle" relationships;
• Parent-child relationships;
• Dependent relationships;
• Loss and acute grief;
• Suicidal thoughts, intentions, and attempts;
• Age crises;
• Conflicts and difficulties in building relationships (family, business);
• Psychosomatic symptoms;
• Eating behavior (excessive weight, bulimia, anorexia);
• Therapy for infertility and pregnancy support; • Insecurity, low self-esteem and more.

Over the years of work, undoubtedly, my own therapeutic style has been formed. Whether it is personal therapy, working with couples or groups, first of all, it is respect for the individuality of the Other. I have an inexhaustible interest in the life and organization of my client's world. The trust I create is of immense value to the therapeutic process. With my clients, I am open and vulnerable. What people come to therapy for, and what every person needs, is acceptance and love, which I generously share in therapy. I am convinced that the most difficult and insurmountable things cease to be so if we talk about them with humor. When humor is integrated into the world of my clients, it becomes difficult for them to maintain suffering as the only possible form of life. :) I am sure that in life there is always a "second chance," and love creates the greatest miracles.

Currently, I observe how the rapid development of new technologies, disconnection dictated by social rules, increasing demands of the modern world, create a lot of tension in people's souls and minds, and the emotional impoverishment in relationships that could be close lead to the appearance of clinical, psychosomatic, and neurotic reactions and disorders. All this cannot but worry me as a person involved in the life of society, the system, the country, and humanity. My activity, my mission, is my contribution to changing this world, in which, I believe, eternal human values such as acceptance, closeness, warmth, love, recognition, and respect will always be important. Without exaggeration, I can say that I am happy to be in my profession, to fulfill my purpose...

Higher public education

1982 – 1987 – Dnipropetrovsk Chemical-Technological Institute named after F.E. Dzerzhinsky, faculty of TNV, engineer-technologist.

1999 – 2001 – Dnepropetrovsk National University, faculty of postgraduate education, psychologist-practitioner.

Basic training programs for therapists

2000 – 2003 – Moscow Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Counseling (MIGTIK), “Theory and Practice of Gestalt Therapy” (1, 2 Stages). Program led by Ph.D. Nemirinsky O. Certificate № II – ДН/2-1.

2004 – 2006 – Moscow Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Counseling (MIGTIK), “Improvement in Gestalt Therapy” (3 Stage). Program led by Ph.D. Nemirinsky O. Certificate № III - MO / 4 -4

Specialized training of therapists

2004 – 2005 – Moscow Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Counseling (MIGTIK). "Body Oriented Therapy". The Program led by Kosyreva E. Certificate b / n.

2009 – 2010 – Moscow Institute of Gestalt Therapy and Counseling (MIGTIK). "Gestalt approach in the therapy of psychosomatic disorders". Program led by Ph.D. Nemirinsky О. Certificate № ПСТ - MO / 3 - 1.

2012 – 2014 – Human Systems Constellations Training Centre, Malta “Professional training in systemic family therapy and work with other systems” Program led by Lidija (Popovic) Pecotic (Croatia).

10.23.2017 – 03.29.2021 - Specialized program "Working with psychopathology in the gestalt approach". Gianni Francesetti, Michella Gechele, Jan Rubal

22.04.2025 - Alfred Nobel University, International Scientific Conference of Students and Young Scientists “Practical Psychology in its Modern Dimensions”.

Professional trainings, seminars, courses, etc.

2008 – Seminar by Gianni Francesetti (Italy) "Working with panic attacks".

2009 – Seminar by J.Edward Lynch (USA) "Peculiarities of working with a group".

2010 – Seminar by Margarita I. Lobb (Spain) “Gestalt therapy in working with psychotic disorders.

15 – 18.05.2010 – Seminar by Bertram Müller (Germany) “Theoretical and practical concepts of will in psychotherapy”.

20 – 22.11.2010 - Seminar by J. Edward Lynch (USA) "From Resistance to Aggression and Personality".

25 – 27.11.2011 – Seminar by Lidija Pecotic (Croatia) “From Shame to Creative Adaptation and Integration”.

17 – 19.10.2014 - Seminar by Michael Vincent Miller "No and Yes in Love".

27-29.03.2015 - Lenny Ravitch's Seminar "Naughtiness, Wit, Creativity and Humor in Gestalt"

25 – 27.09.2015 – Gianni Francesetti (Italy) “Pain and beauty. From psychopathology to the aesthetics of contact.

16-18.10.2023 - Giovanni Salonia's Seminar "The Moon is Made of Cheese"

20.02. 2026 - Online symposium of the Alliance of Ukrainian and European Psychotherapists “Freedom, Dignity, and Meaning.”

Lectures by foreign coaches

20.04.2020 – Lecture “Basic principles of the Gestalt approach in working with organizations” by Franz Melmeister

22.04.2020 – Lecture “Self Theory: rethinking and critical Application” by Giovanni Salonia

27.04.2020 – Lecture “The paradoxical theory of change” by Ioann Rizu

29.04.2020 – Lecture “Mania, hypomania and everyday options (with hints at the times of the coronavirus)” by Michela Gecele

30.04.2020 – Lecture “Family Gestalt Therapy: theoretical picture and clinical application” by Giovanni Salonia

04.05.2020 – Lecture “Psychology of money and Gestalt coaching in dealing with requests for self-realization in the context of professional activity” by Franz Melmeister, Ioanna Rizu, Evtushok Tatiana

06.05.2020 – Lecture “Obsessive experiences in postmodern times: social meaning, directions, shadows of trust and joy” by Michela Gecele

07.05.2020 – Lecture “Middle pledge and atmosphere of the middle pledge in Gestalt Therapy” by Giovanni Salonia, Vadym Hrechka, Tatiana Yevtushok

13.05.2020 – Lecture “Crime stories or thriller? Study of psychological incentives, addiction risks, social effects in literature and cinema” by Michela Dzhechele, Vadym Hrechka

14.05.2020 – Lecture “The concept of will and its trace in Gestalt therapy. Topical issues of the flow of volitional processes in quarantine” by Bertram Müller, Zakharyan Irina

19.05.2020 – Lecture “Weaving the Fabric of Community: Unfolding the Relational Self of Gestalt Therapy” by Dan Bloom

20.05.2020 – Lecture “How to deal with relationships in narcissistic times. What can we learn from films?” by Michela Dzhechele, Vadym hrechka

26.05. 2020 – Lecture “From the Night Before Genesis: Contacting the Other” by Dan Bloom

28.05.2020 – Lecture “Me and Us, Me or Us, Me and Us: The Ark of Proximity” by Michael Miller

02.06.2020 –  Lecture “Through Dawn to Night: Contacting the Other” by Dan Bloom

04.06.2020 – Lecture “Contact and reflexivity: a new theory of Self in Gestalt therapy” by Michael Miller

08.06.2020 – Lecture “Gestalt therapy in work with personality disorders. Style.” by John Edward Lynch

11.06.2020 – Lecture “Poetry and Gestalt Therapy” by Michael Miller, Vadym Hrechka

15.06.2020 – Lecture “Gestalt therapy in work with personality disorders. Traits and Pathology” by John Edward Lynch

26.11.2020 – Lecture “Two Forces Therapy” by Peter Philippson

03.12.2020 – Lecture “Sexuality: drive and relationship” by Peter Philippson

10.12.2020 – Lecture “Tyranny of the Senses” by Peter Philippson

21.01.2021 – Lecture “On Gestalt, Humor and Laughter” by Lenny Ravich

10.02.2021 – Lecture “Personal disorders in times of pandemic” by Michela Gechele

29.03.2021 - Lecture “Atmospheres, fields and clinical practice” by Gianni Francesetti

29.04.2021 – Lecture “Contact is not a relationship, because Self does not remain calm” by Michael Miller

25.11.2021 – Lecture series “Anxiety, shame, guilt: from burden to creative energy”. Lecture 1. “The Theory of Self and its possibilities in dealing with anxiety, guilt, shame: A Theoretical Basis” by Bertram Müller

01.12.2021 – Lecture series “Anxiety, shame, guilt: from burden to creative energy”. Lecture 2. “Anxiety: from Z. Freud and O. Rank to the latest achievements of neuroscience and psychotherapy” by Bertram Müller

09.12.2021 – Lecture series "Anxiety, shame, guilt: from burden to creative energy". Lecture 3. "Guilt in the concept of will: practical application in psychotherapeutic practice" by Bertram Müller

16.12.2021 – Lecture series "Anxiety, shame, guilt: from burden to creative energy". Lecture 4. "Shame and identity in new experience: from intolerance of being to life's resources" by Bertram Müller

24.01.2022 – Lecture "Hope – sustenance the life of relationship" by Alfried Lenglet

27.01.2022 – Lecture "How Existential Analysis and Logotherapy work" by Alfried Lenglet

10.02.2022 – Lecture "Basic models of relations" by Giovanni Salonia

17.02.2022 – Lecture "The Theory of Self" by Giovanni Salonia

03.03.2022 – Lecture "Evolutionary Theory" by Giovanni Salonia

10.02.2022 – Lecture “Family Gestalt Therapy” by Giovanni Salonia

02.03.2022 – Lecture “Conducting groups of psychological support. Lesson 1” by Irena Goluba

03.03.2022 – Lecture “Trauma. Crisis. War” by Giovanni Salonia

04.03.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Lesson 1” by Ruella Frank

06.03.2022 – Lecture “Crisis Support” by Artur Dombrovsky

06.03.2022 – Lecture “Conducting groups of psychological support. Lesson 2” by Irena Goluba

07.03.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Lesson 2” by Ruella Frank

09.03.2022 – Lecture “Individual history and culture as a support during the war and other non-obvious resources” by Gustav Elmberger

11.03.2022 – Lecture “Working with parents as a focus of crisis support” by Artur Dombrovsky

14.03.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Lesson 3” by Ruella Frank

15.03.2022 – Lecture “Working with Guilt as a Focus of Therapy in Wartime” by Artur Dombrovsky

18.03.2022 – Lecture “How to help yourself – using the body and its skills to create stability and resilience in a humanitarian crisis and war. Lesson 1” by Judy Berman Zeligson

19.03.2022 – Lecture “Do you love a malingerer?” by Iosif Zislin

21.03.2022 – Lecture “What is the content of tests?” by Galiya Kostinskaya

22.03.2022 – Lecture “Issues of adaptation and psychotherapeutic work with them” by Artur Dombrovsky

23.03.2022 – Lecture “Therapist’s self-support resources in a difficult and painful field” by Jan Rubal

24.03.2022 – Lecture “Working with trauma according to the Jim Kapner model” by Brigita Kaleckaite

25.03.2022 – Lecture “Meaning and hope in wartime” by Alfrid Langley

28.03.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Lesson 4” by Ruella Frank

29.03.2022 – Lecture “Me and freedom of choice: awareness in a stressful situation” by Artur Dombrovsky

30.03.2022 – Webinar lecture “How to help yourself – using the body and its skills to create stability and resilience in a humanitarian crisis and war. Lesson 2” by Judy Berman Zeligson

31.03.2 022 – Lecture “Creative adjustment in time of war” by Bertram Müller

03.04. 2022 – Lecture “Psychopathology of war, its features and resources” by Georgy Smolin

05.04.2022 – Lecture “How to survive the pain, fear and despair without freezing yourself?” by Franz Melmeister

06.04.2022 – Lecture “Psychotherapy of the injured and traumatized vs psychotherapy of the mobilized and warring” by Irena Goluba

08.04.2022 – Lecture “Therapist's self-help in times of crisis” by Amit Orenн

10.04.2022 – Lecture “How to survive trauma with dignity” by Sofia Verulashvili

11.04.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Lesson 5” by Ruella Frank

12.04.2022 – Lecture “What support is needed to survive the night?” by Giovanni Salonia

13.04.2022 – Lecture with the inclusion of the personal experience of the participants “If a friend suddenly turned out to be ... Communication with loved ones who ended up in another camp” by Irena Goluba

14.04.2022 – Lecture “Helping children and adolescents in Ukraine with Gestalt Play Therapy by Violet Oaklander. Lesson 1” by Lynn Stadler

15.04.2022 – Webinar lecture “PTSD and its impact on the mind and body” by James Krall (USA, first cycle)

16.04.2022 – Lecture "Did Oedipus suffer from an Oedipus complex?" by Joseph Zislin

18.04.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Lesson 6” by Ruella Frank

19.04.2022 – Lecture “The phenomenon of narcissism” by Artur Dombrovsky

20.04.2022 – Lecture “How did my family survive and survive? Finding Resources in Family History by Irena Goluba

21.04.2022 – Lecture “Helping children and adolescents in Ukraine with Gestalt Play Therapy by Violet Oaklander. Lesson 2” by Lynn Stadler

22.04.2022 – Webinar lecture “Collecting information on admission and assessment of mental status” by James Krall (USA, second cycle)

26.04.2022 – Webinar lecture “Helping psychologists and psychotherapists during the humanitarian crisis and war. Lesson 1” by Judy Berman Zeligson

27.04.2022 – Lecture “Life schedule as a way of working with post-traumatic stress disorder” by Ismini Ohm-Zalitis (Stockholm)

29.04.2022 –Webinar lecture “Overview of the EMDR Treatment Model and EMDR Imaging Resource” by James Krall (USA, third cycle)

30.04.2022 – Lecture “From sexual addiction to penis loss” by Iosif Zislin

30.04.2022 – Lecture “Integration of spirituality in a conflict and dangerous field” by Philip Brownell (USA)

02.05.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Session 7” by Ruella Frank

03.05.2022 – Lecture “Mothers and Children” by Sherry Skyler Kelly

04.05.2022 – Lecture “From regular psychotherapy to crisis one and back. Changes in the contract, framework and therapeutic relationship during the war” by Irena Golub

06.05.2022 – Webinar lecture “Developing an Injury Treatment Plan” by James Krall (USA, fourth cycle)

09.05.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Session 8” by Ruella Frank

11.05. 2022 – Lecture “Verbs in the context of dialogue and dialogue in the context of evidence” by Artur Dombrovsky

17.05.2022 – Webinar lecture “Helping psychologists and psychotherapists during the humanitarian crisis and war. Lesson 2” by Judy Berman Zeligson

18.05.2022 – Lecture “Experiencing losses. Losses of various kinds” by Irena Goluba

19.05.2022 – Lecture “How to restore the language of emotions when they are frozen. Anger and hatred: for how long? Why?" by Sherry Skyler Kelly, Phoebe Atkinson

23.05.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Session 9” by Ruella Frank

30.05.2022 – Lecture-webinar “Body safety as a basic state. How to learn from him to return” by Judy Berman Zeligson

10.06.2022 – Lecture “How to live with uncertainty, cultivate resilience and hope” by Amit Oren

13.06.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Session 10” by Ruella Frank

23.06.2022 – Webinar Lecture “The importance of movement – to prevent or exit a frozen state” by Judy Berman Zeligson

04.07.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Session 11” by Ruella Frank

06.07.2022 – Webinar Lecture “The importance of movement – to prevent or exit a frozen state” by Judy Berman Zeligson

13.07.2022 – Lecture “Dilemmas of settlers: when to go, where to stay, relations with others” by Irena Goluba

18.07.2022 – Webinar “Therapist's bodily experiences during the war. Session 12” by Ruella Frank

28.07.2022 – Webinar Lecture “The importance of movement – to prevent or exit a frozen state” by Judy Berman Zeligson