Menshun Iryna Ivanivna

Category: First

Education:

• Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A.S. Makarenko (2007), specialty: practical psychologist;
• Ukrainian State University named after Mykhailo Dragomanov, specialty: special education (2021).

Membership in associations, societies; attending conferences, thematic improvement courses:

• Member of the National Psychological Association of Ukraine;
• Participated in All-Ukrainian scientific and practical conferences;
• Completed a certified course “Psychological assistance for depressive and anxiety disorders”;
• completed a certified course “Basics of Child Counseling and Trauma Therapy”;
• completed a certified course “Children, War, Trauma”;
• Completed a certified course in “Psychotherapy for Traumatic Experiences: Working with PTSD and Acute Grief”;
• Completed a certified course in “Fundamentals of Modern Psychosomatics.”

Areas of professional development:

• Completed training in a correctional program for children with special educational needs;
• Completed training programs in “Fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,” “Cognitive Behavioral Model in Working with Children and Adolescents,” and “Working with Emotions: Practical Tools in CBT”;
• completed the training program “Psychiatric Propaedeutics”;
• participated in volunteer programs for children with special educational needs;
• studying clinical psychology;
• attending specialized seminars.

Priority areas in clinical practice:

• supporting children and adolescents in crisis situations (fears, anxiety, phobias, social maladjustment, panic attacks, depressive symptoms, loss, parental divorce);
• correction of eating disorders;
• correction of difficulties in the emotional and volitional sphere;
• psychological support for childhood trauma;
• assessment of the level of mental development of the cognitive sphere and its correction in preschool and school-age children;
• career guidance diagnostics for adolescents;
• correction of cognitive development and neuropsychological stimulation of neurodiverse children and adolescents;
• counseling parents on the peculiarities of mental development in children and adolescents;
• adolescent psychotherapy (cognitive-behavioral method, art therapy).

Tell us about your professional interests other than your specialization:

• psychiatry;
• psychopharmacology.

Hobbies, favorite movies, books:

• I actively practice yoga, watch movies based on real events, and read fiction.

Doctor's advice:

• When a child becomes “disobedient,” they are asking for help. Instead of re-educating them, I suggest figuring out what is bothering them.