Psychologist · Gestalt Therapist · Executive Coach

Therapy in English, for people who carry a lot

I help adults get through a crisis or a major transition - and find new ground. I don't promise fast. I promise honest. In practice since 2014; before that - 17 years in international business, including 5 years living and working in Germany.

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01What brings people to me

Burnout that doesn't look like burnout - everything is fine on paper, and empty inside. Relocation that was supposed to be an adventure and turned into losing your footing. A career that stopped making sense. Leadership loneliness: being the one everyone relies on, with no one to talk to. Relationships stretched across cultures and time zones.

I know this territory from both sides. I spent 17 years in international corporations - Abbott, BMW, Bosch - leading teams of up to 300 people across 30 countries, based in Moscow and then Frankfurt. I have been through relocation, divorce, burnout and an identity crisis myself - and worked through them in my own therapy, 12 years and over 1,000 hours of it. I don't need your world explained to me. I have lived in it.

02What I work with

Burnout and chronic stress

You took the vacation. It didn't help. Everything still runs on the outside; inside it went quiet long ago. This is not laziness - the shape of your life got too small, like an old coat. We look for where exactly it pinches.

Loss of meaning, existential emptiness

Goals achieved, zero joy. At 3 a.m. the question "what is all this for" arrives - and silence answers. I don't hand out new meaning. I help you hear what you actually want.

Expat life: identity, adaptation, loneliness

Home stayed there, and you are here. The language is foreign, your status got reset, your friends live in a messenger. "Who am I now" is not a rhetorical question. I have lived through emigration myself and work with it constantly.

Divorce, separation, recovery after a breakup

Anger, guilt, relief, grief - all at once, and all of it feeling somehow "wrong". I know what it is to reassemble yourself. Not the old you. A different one.

Career transitions: out of corporate, into your own thing

Leaving is scary, staying is unbearable. The head keeps calculating risks; the body decided long ago. We look at what holds you: money, fear - or grief for the life you will have to let go of.

Leadership loneliness, the weight of responsibility

You can't complain to your team - you are their anchor. Upwards is where they evaluate you. One hour a week where you don't have to be strong. I spent 17 years in that role.

Relationship patterns that keep repeating

Partners change, the script stays the same. Closeness - escape. Resentment - silence. We look not at "him" or "her", but at how you build contact.

Men's experience: vulnerability, aggression, self-worth

Anger with nowhere to go. Weakness that must not show. Here you can be angry, cry and stay silent. For real. Without shame.

03How I work

My core method is Gestalt therapy - working with what happens in contact, here and now. A psychoanalytic lens (MSc in Psychology, HSE University) helps to see recurring life patterns. Coaching tools (Erickson International, ICF-accredited) come in when structure and concrete steps are needed. 2,500+ hours of professional training altogether. I ask direct, sometimes uncomfortable questions - and I can hold what comes up: shame, anger, fear, emptiness. More about the process: how therapy works.

04Format and fees

Session50 minutes · online

Fee60 € per session

ScheduleMon-Thu · 9:00-21:00 CET

PaymentPayPal · IBAN · card

LanguagesEnglish · Russian

05Group

Together with my colleague Irina, I run an English-speaking therapy group - «Work, People, Ambition» - about work that is never just work: ambition, recognition, competition, burnout and what we actually want.

06Credentials, in short

MSc in Psychology, psychoanalytic trackHSE University · 2015-2018

Gestalt therapist · 4-year program, 733 hoursMoscow Gestalt Institute · 2017-2021

Certified coach, ICF-accreditedErickson International · 2014-2015

Own therapy12 years · 1,000+ hours

Diplomas, certificates and the full list: credentials with scans.

07Reading

I write about burnout, transitions and staying alive at work - no advice, no tidy wisdom at the end. English essays are collected in Articles; most of my writing lives in Russian on Telegram and LinkedIn.

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Message me on Telegram karasaev.valery@gmail.com