Hi, I am Oxana

My mission is to help people, to set them free from imposed - whether it’s someone’s else values, limitations or negative narratives, that they continue to carry in life.

I love to empower people to become who they are capable of being - with their dreams, relationships or finding true value in who they are instead of pretending to be someone they are not to get this value externally.

I went to therapy for the first time in my early 20’s, as part of my training to become a therapist. It was not easy. I didn’t know what to talk about as everything seemed great. On the inside, I was conflicted, confused and lost. And it had become more and more visible.

Today I have hundreds of therapy hours as a client and still do therapy as part of my ongoing training and self-care. Therapy has helped me to navigate a lot of personal issues, address negative patterns and step into a version of myself that I never believed that I was capable of being. Today I am grateful for the opportunity to provide the same experience for my clients.


MY BACKGROUND

I was born in raised in Moscow, Russia and have that Russian character and soul. I received 2 master degrees - one in special education, another in psychology and counseling. I initially built my therapist career in Russia, I worked there for 7 years, then moved to the USA. From 2016, I have been practicing in Washington state, where I opened my private practice in 2018, and in 2020 I also got licensed in the state of Nevada.

When I am not in the session with my clients, I spend a lot of my time working on other projects I am passionate about. Several examples are, Orientation support for immigrants (read more LINK) and Coaching for Women (read more LINK). I also love spending quality time with family and friends, binging on audiobooks, learning about energy medicine, as well as attending my own personal therapy. I also take music lessons and I try to keep my perfect morning routine which includes having a green smoothie daily in place.

EMDR stands for Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing. EMDR is a reprocessing therapy internationally recognized as an effective intervention for the treatment of past trauma.In layman terms, it is a type of therapy that will help you heal from bad experiences, whether that be recently or the distant past.

What are “bad experiences?”
Well, that can vary from discovering your purse orwallet was stolen or your vehicle vandalized to something bigger, like   witnessing a fatal shooting or experiencing life threatening situation.

Here are a few pretend examples
John came to me for EMDR to address his self-doubt, poor self-esteem, and social anxiety that was bothering him due to many years of bullying he experienced in high school.

Jane contacted my office for EMDR sessions to address when she was molested as child by a member of her family. In our work together, we were also able to process her negative family experiences related to her family memberand dismissive attitude from her mother throughout her childhood.

When the past is present
You, like many people, may have had a bad experience that impacted you emotionally. You may have started to have “negative symptoms,” such as feeling distracted, poor sleep, bad memories, nightmares, feelings of guilt, or your body “jumps” when a door slams. The list goes on and on and on and is very personal.
Why would you not want to get rid of these negative symptoms? These symptoms suck and often lead to you having a hard time staying focused at work, feeling disconnected from your friends and family, and may cause problems for you at work and in other areas in your life.
Thanks to EMDR, the miserableness of these symptoms can be addressed in an eight-step process that will help you move past the bad experience while helping relieving yourself of the negative symptoms.

Move past what’s holding you back
While we work together using EMDR, I will help you to understand the connection between the bad experience and your negative symptoms.
After drawing the connection, I will guide you through the EMDR process to reprocess the bad experience in a safe manner where you can talk about it without becoming overwhelmed.
Throughout the process, I will be present, patient, and allow you to guide the pace to ensure processing is completed. In the end, we will work together to transform the meaning of these experiences so that you will feel, be, and have a different, healthier, and more adaptive perspective to move past what has been holding you back.

In our work together using EMDR, I will help you to better understand the connection between the bad experience and your negative symptoms.
After drawing the connection, I will guide you through the EMDR process to reprocess the bad experience in a safe manner where you can talk about it without becoming overwhelmed.
Throughout the process, I will be present, patient, and allow you to guide the pace to ensure processing is completed. In the end, we will work together to transform the meaning of these experiences so that you will feel, be, and have a different, healthier, and more adaptive perspective to move past what has been holding you back.
EMDR is empirically demonstrated to work
As part of my training, I had to go through EMDR on my own as a client and can confidently assure you from my own experience: this process works.
In addition to my own experience, EMDR has been evaluated in more than 20 studies that have demonstrated over and over that it is an effective treatment for depression, anxiety, trauma, grief, chronic pain, and other obstacles with which you are struggling and are affecting your mental health.