About myself...
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Psychoanalyst • clinical psychologist
Sub Rosa Mentis — ad altiora
Svitlana BARS
I am a psychoanalyst and philosopher.
I work in the field of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis,
I think in philosophical categories.
My interest is focused on the unconscious, archetypes, the shadow, recurring scenarios and deep inner conflicts. It is not only the symptom that is important, but also what creates it: experience, personality structure, history of choices, the real reason for the request.
I accompany a person in the process of their internal transformations. This is a meeting with their own shadow aspects, acceptance of unconscious material, the emergence of new meanings and the subject's maturation. Metaphysics and ontology are present in my thinking: questions about how we exist, why we live, what freedom, responsibility and inner truth are.
Psychotherapy for me is a live conversation between two people, attentive presence, and working with what is happening inside. It is a movement from automatic reactions to conscious choice, from chaos to inner order, from superficial explanations to one's own truth.
I work with those who value depth, intellectual honesty, confidentiality, and a willingness to look at themselves without illusions.
Practice
My practice combines work with acute crisis states and deep long-term therapy. I accompany people through periods of loss, traumatic events, existential crises, as well as in processes of deep inner transformation. I work with recurring scenarios, inner conflicts, experiences of guilt, shame, loss of meaning, difficulties in the areas of intimacy, power, responsibility and leadership.
Crisis and short-term assistance
CBT
EMDR
Mindfulness
Crisis counseling
Short description
Working with automatic thoughts and behavioral patterns that support anxiety and distress
Processing traumatic memories and post-traumatic reactions
Here-and-now presence skills, grounding, reducing overload
Help with loss, shock, divorce, diagnosis, and sudden life changes
Long-term deep therapy
Deep internal conflicts
Repetitive life scenarios
The search for meaning
Intimacy and relationship problems
Short description
Awareness of the contradictions between desire and prohibition, freedom and guilt
Analysis of situations that repeat cyclically in relationships and elections
Own values, inner position, life direction
Attachment, jealousy, dependent relationships, contact difficulties
My therapeutic approach
Psychoanalytic
Analytical psychology
Short description
Research into unconscious processes and early experiences
Archetypes, shadow, symbols, dreams, the process of individuation
Humanistic approach
Body-oriented
Authenticity, autonomy, reliance on one's own resources
The connection between the psyche and the body, psychosomatic manifestations
Intimacy and relationship problems
Combination of methods depending on the person's request
Working with the unconscious
Dream analysis
Free associations
Working with archetypes
Images and symbols
Creative methods
Short description
Dreams as the language of the unconscious and access to hidden meanings
Working with what emerges without censorship, exploring meanings
Figures of mother, father, hero, shadow, child
Symbolic language as the key to transformation
Drawing, writing, figurative techniques to access inner material
MY PHILOSOPHY...
I work with what is hidden. With what is unspoken, not realized, repressed, forgotten, but continues to act. My task is not to convince or reassure, but to help see the truth of one's own experience.
I recognize the reality of the unconscious. It manifests itself in dreams, mistakes, symptoms, repeated life stories. It speaks in the language of symbols and images. I listen to this language together with the person.
I don't fight symptoms. A symptom is a message. I help you hear who it is addressed to and what it is trying to say. Where there seemed to be only suffering, meaning often opens up.
I believe in the shadow as an integral part of the personality. It contains not only trauma, but also strength, passion, creativity, the ability to choose. Meeting the shadow does not destroy a person, but makes them more whole.
I am not interested in the mask, but in the person behind it. Not the role, but the subject. Not what one "should be," but what one really is and what one can become.
My work is based on philosophy. I ask questions about being, freedom, responsibility, the limits of power over one's own life, the nature of evil and suffering. I do not offer ready-made answers. I accompany in the search for one's own.
Psychoanalysis for me is a space of respect, silence, and intellectual honesty. Here you can speak the truth about yourself. Even the truth you want to turn away from.
I don't promise quick results. Deep work takes time, courage, and a willingness to look deep. But it is what makes possible not cosmetic changes, but the inner movement of life.
I work for those who are ready to face themselves for real. With their strength and weakness, fear and desire, love and aggression, light and shadow.
Where a person stops running away from themselves, their journey begins.
Ukraine. Kharkiv
I have an individual practice with limited appointments. After reviewing your request, provided it matches my professional profile, a possible meeting time will be agreed. Due to military operations, work is conducted online only.
