Anastasia Ariefieva

Offer

• Individual therapy

LanguagesTalen

Ukrainian, Russian, English and Dutch

Method

I am committed to offer a safe space where we can build trust and work through painful emotions and challenging situations. My goal is to offer empathy and help to clients who find themselves in a conflicted state, who again and again face the same struggles in relationships and professional life, and who have now decided to break the painful patterns. The initial step is slowing down and reflecting on what causes the painful emotions and leads to difficult situations. Then we gradually analyse how to brake the maladaptive patterns of emotions and behaviour. Based on the issues, conflicts, and situations faced by the client in their day-to-day life, we apply the newly gained insights to bring changes to improve the quality of life. I tailor my therapy strategy to each client’s needs and preferences.

Moreover, therapeutic relations as such also play a role: the client experiences empathic, honest and respectful relationships, where no single thought or feeling is being criticized and where the client together with the therapist gets a chance to slow down and explore themselves. That allows to learn new ways of dealing with emotions and inner conflicts.

With personal experience of emigration, I also work with emigration-related topics, such as searching for new identity in the new surrounding, feeling of being stuck in between two cultures and not really fully belonging to any of them, trying to understand the mentality of people in the new culture and learning to interact with them in professional and personal life, intercultural relationships, feeling of being torn between wanting stay and wanting to return, taking courage to start a new education or a different career and other.

Training

• Master in Clinical Psychology, option adult (in Dutch), MSc (KU Leuven)
• Master in Philosophy (in English), MA (KU Leuven)
• Master in Philosophy, option Phenomenology (in English), MPhil (KU Leuven)
• Continuous self-education

Experience

• Clinical internship (therapy and diagnostics) – Universitair Psychiatrisch Centrum K.U. Leuven, campus Kortenberg (2021-2022)
• Psychologist – Centra voor Geestelijke Gezonheidszorg, Brussel, deelwerking West (2022-heden)

Membership

• Psychologists’ Committee

Contact details

• Tel: 0484 68 16 56
• Mail:anastasia.ariefieva@outlook.com

Availibility

• Thursday: 13u00-16u00(TCV Madou)
• Thursday: 17u00-20u00(TCV Madou)
• Friday: 09u00-12u00(TCV Madou)
• Friday: 13u00-12u00(TCV Madou)