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For most of my life, I tried to be a comfortable person for my loved ones and, in general, for all the people around me. My basic attitudes were focused on the comfort of others instead of my own in order to be accepted. It was only when I realized that I was in a codependent relationship that I plunged into psychology and psychotherapy to study myself. I began to explore my essence, my needs and limitations. Through personal psychotherapy, group therapy, and five years of study at the Kyiv Gestalt University, I learned to surround myself with people who accept me for who I am. Of course, before I could recognize acceptance in the eyes of these people, I had to dispel many of my projections, get rid of many of my deep-seated beliefs, and learn to trust people again. But first and foremost, I learned how to build a safe space for myself. Also, as a clinical psychologist, I pay attention to how a person is built from the point of view of personality and our therapeutic work is based on this. I am not at all determined to change the client, but rather to work on expanding the client's awareness of how he or she is organized, what he or she wants, what causes discomfort. It is the awareness of one's internal processes that helps to make choices and, as a result, change one's life as one would like.