Qualifications

Aleksandra Staneva Phd Psychology; MRes Psychology; BA(Hons) Psychology

IFS (Internal Family Systems) Practitioner Level 2 (Official IFS training endorsed by the IFS Institute USA via IFS Australia)

Training and mentoring by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés Reyes (Psychoanalytical Ethnographic Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy, 2019-present)

– Effective Couples Therapy The Gottman Institute 2024

IFIO (Intimacy from the inside out) Internal Family Systems for Couples Therapy 2024

Storytelling: Psychoanalytic and Cross-Cultural studies 5 days intensive with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estès Reyès, July 2023 Colorado, USA

– IFS and Addictions: A compassion for the addictive process with Cece Sykes, IFS Lead trainer, USA

Somatic Internal Family Systems (Somatic IFS) with Susan McConnell, IFS Lead trainer, USA

Working Through Intergenerational Trauma with Ancient Wisdom & IFS Therapy

– Family healing, Psychotherapy, and the Dead – IFS, Depth Psychology, and Ancestral Healing

Compassionate Inquiry with Dr Gabor Maté

IFS and Health – Healing the Trauma that Surrounds Medical Syndromes – 2 day life IFS Masterclass with Dr Lisa Rankin and Dr Dick Schwartz

– “The knower in you: an animist approach to Dreamwork and exploration of Sophia” with Toko-pa Turner, Comox Valley CG Jung Society

– Working with Complex Trauma through the Internal Family Systems model – Frank Anderson, MD

– Sexuality, Eroticism and Desire – Esther Perel

Conscious Parenting, The awakened family with Dr Shefali

Mother Wound, Depth Psychology

Shadow work James Hollis, Jung Platform

Shamanic Practices with Sandra Ingerman

– Original Voice, with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in-house Intensive training, Denver, Colorado, USA

– Art as a Sacred Act, with Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estes, in-house Intensive training,   Denver, Colorado, USA

Dream Work (Jungian and Neo-Jungian approaches)

– IFS, Internal Family Systems Group work

– Vipassana Buddhism

– Clinical guidelines on Perinatal Mental Health, Australia

– Doctoral Studies – Research into Maternal Mental Health, Ante- and Post-Natal Depression, Anxiety, Preterm birth, Ovarian Cancer, Youth Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol use, Digital Mental Health

– Dream analysis (Freudian approaches) Group Training

– Psychoanalytic Training, Personal analysis, Group Therapy

– Film and Psychoanalysis