Letter from Lviv: Symbolic Thinking in the Face of Tragedy

Studied psychoanalytic theory and mental development at the Lviv Psychoanalytic Institute of Mental Health. She underwent a five-year training in group psychoanalysis at the Truskavetsk School of Psychotherapy, and received her master’s in psychology at Lviv State University of Safety and Life Activities. She studied non-violent communication at the International Institute of Integral Development, “School of Empathy” project, and was certified in the psychoanalytic psychotherapy of children and adolescents at the Ukrainian Union of Psychotherapists. She continues to train in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis at the Ukrainian Psychotherapeutic University. Kateryna also works with the consequences of children crises and psychological trauma and disorders in parent-child interaction at the Children’s Health Center in Lviv, Ukraine.