MIKOVA
Oksana Mikova
Your psychologist
Oksana Mikova · navigator of private practice

A compass doesn't give a point. It gives direction.

6 years sailing with people who don't know where their north is. Gestalt therapy, no maps with an X, but careful attention to the wind. Your psychologist, family constellator, and EMDR practitioner.

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For the skeptical

The diploma, as expected

Here it is. With stamps, an addendum, and a real name. Professional retraining, if that matters to you.

On the white note at the top, a blessing from two old friends of mine. Don't ask how they got there.

Oksana Mikova's diploma with a blessing note
Oksana Viktorovna Mikova, 2022
How I work

Three approaches, combined for you

One method can't hold everything people bring. I combine approaches for your request, instead of fitting you into a technique.

Work in the present

Gestalt therapy

We notice what's with you right now: how you breathe, what your body feels, the words you choose, what slips out of focus. This method is good when you know something hurts but can't quite name it. We learn to hear ourselves before anxiety does.

Work with trauma

EMDR

Working with traumatic experience through bilateral stimulation: sequential eye movements, sounds, or taps. Needed when the past surfaces in the present as flashes, fears, repeating reactions. We don't retell the trauma, we change its place in your memory.

Work with the family system

Systemic constellations

Work with what's passed down through family: roles, scripts, prohibitions. We often repeat patterns that aren't even ours - other people's resentments, decisions, boundaries. In a constellation you see this system from a distance and can gently return what's yours to yourself, what isn't to where it belongs.

How to begin

First message - to my DMs.

Before me, everything on the site is yours to use: five self-discovery tools, a podcast, recordings. This isn't a replacement for therapy, but it is my voice. If it rings for you - write.

First message to my Telegram DMs. I'll reply briefly and either take the request into work or pass it to a colleague. I don't offer free trial sessions: my schedule is tight, and honest work isn't «tentative». But a message doesn't commit you to anything.

Message on Telegram
In case you need testimonials

I handed the word to the classics.

I won't collect real testimonials, they're all the same and empty as a template. Over six years of practice I've sat with more than two thousand people, the experience lives in them, not in polished quotes. But since this profession likes to quote somebody, I took the liberty of imagining what five people who know their way around psychology would say about me.

Oksana hears archetypes and does not bow to them. A rare combination. I am at peace about her.

Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung
1875-1961 · Zurich

She asks «what are you feeling right now» in a way that makes you want to answer honestly. Half the work is already done.

Fritz Perls
Fritz Perls
1893-1970 · New York

Attachment is not about my books. It is about presence. Oksana is presence.

John Bowlby
John Bowlby
1907-1990 · London

A psychologist matures when she meets her own limits. It seems Oksana has.

Irvin Yalom
Irvin Yalom
род. 1931 · Palo Alto

I designed the protocol. Oksana made it something you can walk without closing your eyes.

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Francine Shapiro
1948-2019 · California

Meaning cannot be given, only found. Oksana knows how to stay near and not hand you answers. That is rare.

Viktor Frankl
Viktor Frankl
1905-1997 · Vienna

These testimonials are fictional. Written with great tenderness toward the legacy of the classics and without the slightest wish to claim their authority.