My professional experience
2024- present: Mentoring and supervision of new colleagues in the center for traumatized refugees and torture survivors.
2022 - present: Psychotherapy and counseling in private practice
2019 - 2022: Psychologist at psychosocial center for traumatised refugees and torture survivors, refugio e.V. (Germany)
2019 – 2022: Psychotherapist at the Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (outpatient treatment of depression, anxiety, OCD, personality disorders, etc.)
2019: Psychologist at the Center for Mental Health, day clinic and inpatient psychiatric treatment at Thüringen Kliniken, Germany
2018 – 2019 Psychologist at the University Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Jena, day-clinic and inpatient psychiatric treatment.
2016 – 2017 Support and counseling with people suffering from chronic mental health disorders at Aktion Wandlungwelten e.V.
My education
2025 - EMDR Basic Training, USA
2024-2025 Fellowship at Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia, USA
2023 - 2024 Capella University, USA
2022 - Certification in Online Counseling, Sigmund Freud Universität, Wien, Austria
2017 - 2022 Licensure in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Germany
2015 - 2017 M.Sc. Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy. Friedrich Schiller Universität, Jena, Germany
2011 - 2015 B.Sc. Psychology, University of Cologne, Germany
I was born in Tajikistan, a small, high-mountain country in Central Asia. I spent my adolescence in Moscow, Russia. Driven by a deep desire for independence, I later moved to Germany, where I lived for 11 years and devoted myself to my true passion—psychology. A few years ago, I moved to the United States, and now live with my husband and our young daughter in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Let’s see where life leads me next.
Moving between countries, uprooting, and learning to re-root again has repeatedly brought me face to face with questions of identity and estrangement, autonomy and belonging - questions I believe accompany all of us throughout our lives. It also taught me to stay curious, both in my work and in my personal life.