Art Mentorship and Consultancy
I lead one-to-one photography lessons — there are no groups, so you’ll get the most attention specifically to your questions.
What can you come to me with?
For photographers — how to choose your project theme, put together a series, what to do if you get stuck and don’t move in your project, and totally practical questions like how to work with multi-exposure.
For artists of other mediums — to expand their toolkit with photography, learn new art techniques, and renew their gaze.
And for people of absolutely any profession, who want to experience their life more vividly and fully, to relax and be filled, to create as art each of their own days, I run the art courses. Also individually. Camera is not a necessity: уou can take pictures with your phone as well.
Working with photos is like meditation. It helps you to ground yourself
Is it magic or art-therapy, depends on your belief
I consider art to be both, and practice this.
- Meetings take place online, by video-messenger
- There are assignments. But no assessments! These are important for your process and should not take more than 15 minutes a day
- For the course to be meaningful, it is important to set aside time when you are alone and you are guaranteed not to be disturbed by anyone
- About me: feminist, LGBTQ+, HIV+ friendly. This is important to note so that no one is afraid to meet stigma and feel free to bring up any topics — but luckily I already live in a country where the opposite is illegal. And of course, I believe that any helping professionals should be friendly on all these points without special mention
- Total confidentiality (when working online I ensure it not only ethically, but also technically)
My experience and education
I have been teaching one-to-one classes with individual clients since 2020. I also have experience of group work with teenagers in camps and crisis centres, with adults in author’s courses and workshops (federal network of educational centres Unium, charity fund Time to Help, charity fund Teply Dom, space Other worlds, (Petersburg), children’s camp Primorsky (Ukraine), 2013-2018)
This is what my approach is based on:
- Education received at the Imaton Institute in Phototherapy
- Education at the Russian Art Therapy Association on the course Multimodal Art Therapy as a practice of simple steps
- Photography education (more in Bio)
- Research and tutorial work by Judy Weiser, Christine Nunes, Meena Savolainen, Pamela Dunn, David Ulrich, Alexander Kopytin, and George Platts. A special role is played by Natalie Rogers and her multi-modal art-therapeutic approach. I am also very close to Michael White’s narrative approach. All of this I compose, transforming it into my own.
- Great experience of personal therapy — over 400 hours
- Practice since I was a little girl. When I didn’t yet know the method had a name, it helped me.
To book an appointment
you can write to me via any messenger you like or in the box below, and we will arrange a date and time for the first online meeting.
One сonsultancy lasts one hour (60 minutes). The cost per consultancy is £50 (payable in $ and € as well)
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