Margarita Spasskaia

Originally I am from Russia, but now I have been living in Izmir, Turkey on a touristic permission.

You can contact me via WhatsApp +79219033509

My professional roles

• consulting psychologist in private practice

I graduated from the East European Institute of Psychoanalysis in 2007. Since then I have been working as a consulting psychologist in private practice. In the period from 2007 to 2017 I worked as a psychodynamic psychologist using mostly the psychoanalytic method in my practice. During this period I received training through seminars, supervisions, individual and group training psychotherapy in the psychoanalytic approach.

From 2017 to 2020 I focused on studying modern psychoanalytic techniques (the Spotnitz school). This method is useful for working with different groups of psychiatric patients, primarily with schizophrenia. I learned how to work with patients with psychosis through long-lasting supportive psychological consulting. I then applied these methods in my practice.

In 2020 I started to study schema therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. For a long period prior to this, I had already been employing some cognitive behavioral therapy techniques because I found it ineffective to only use psychoanalytic instruments in my practice.

I believe that psychoanalytic instruments are important and useful when dealing with certain types of clients. In the last few years I have also come to feel that there may be additional effective ways to help people, and my experience with schema therapy has confirmed this.

Our profession should be guided by ethical principles, and in particular the ethical code laid out by the American Psychology Association. This ethical code emphasizes humanistic values such as doing no harm and avoiding violence.

• lecturer for mental health professionals

I focus on diversity, inclusion and equality in my lecturing practice. I do a diversity block for an educational ethics program for psychotherapists. The next big topic in my public speaking for mental health professionals is the domestic violence problem in Russia.

• group supervisor for mental health specialists and ethics groups

• public speaker

I speak at professional conferences about domestic violence and its consequences on the mental health of survivors. I also talk about diversity, ethics and the power imbalance between the psychologist and the client.