About me — Yevhenii Andrieiev

I’m Yevhenii Andrieiev — a trauma-informed somatic coach. I trained as a psychologist and trauma therapist in Ukraine, and my work is grounded in psychodynamic thinking and EMDR (a structured approach to processing specific distressing or emotionally charged memories). What’s always at the centre for me isn’t a technique, though — it’s the person: how the past keeps living in someone now, and what makes real change possible.

Why this work

What drew me to this work is a sense that a lot of human suffering is misunderstood — by the people living it, and often by the systems meant to help.

Many of the people I work with have spent years believing something is wrong with them. They read anxiety, numbness, perfectionism, people-pleasing, burnout, or self-criticism as personal failures. More often I see something else: intelligent adaptations to experiences that once called for survival.

What interests me most is the gap between understanding and change. Someone can explain exactly why they react the way they do, where it comes from, and what they’d like to do differently — and still feel stuck. Most of my interest lives in that gap.

I don’t think lasting change comes from advice, positive thinking, or insight alone. It tends to happen when experience that was carried in isolation, shame, or survival mode can be lived through and felt differently in the present. When a nervous system no longer has to organise around old threats, people often regain access to what was there all along: spontaneity, closeness, self-trust, grief, anger, the ability to choose.

I’m especially drawn to working with people who look highly functional from the outside while carrying a heavy load underneath — capable, responsible, looking after everyone around them, and privately dealing with exhaustion, loneliness, or a sense of disconnection.

This work stays meaningful to me because I keep seeing something that first looks almost impossible: a person becoming less governed by patterns that once felt automatic — not by forcing themselves to change, but by building a different relationship with experience that stayed unresolved for years.

Background and training

I trained as a psychologist and trauma therapist in Ukraine — a degree in practical psychology, followed by certified training in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and advanced training in EMDR. Alongside these, I’ve trained in somatic work, clinical hypnosis, and several other trauma-focused approaches. I’m a member of Ukraine’s National Psychological Association.

I’ve been in private practice since 2022, work under regular supervision, and have more than 12 years of my own personal work behind me — for me, an essential part of doing this well.

Practice: since 2022
Personal therapy: 12+ years
Supervision: regular
Association: member, Ukraine's National Psychological Association
EMDR: advanced training

Full list of training and certificates →

Full list

Memberships

Member: Ukraine’s National Psychological Association (NPA) and its division “Psychoanalytic Psychology and Psychotherapy”
Member: EMDR Kazakhstan Association
Member: ImTT Therapy Association

Degree

2020–2022: Taras Shevchenko University — Bachelor’s degree in practical psychology

Training and courses

2023–2025: “Theory of psychoanalysis and skills of psychoanalytic psychotherapy” — psychotherapy training programme certified by Ukraine’s National Psychological Association (NPA)
October 2025 – July 2026: Clinical seminars on body-mind axis — Dr. Riccardo Lombardi, 20 h
February 2026: Coherence Therapy. Level 1
November 2025 – January 2026: Trance-oriented psychotherapy (hypnotherapy), 164 h
December 2025: BrainWorking Recursive Therapy. Level 1 — Rafiq Lockhat, 28 h
November 2025: Deep Brain Reorienting. Level 2 — Frank Corrigan, 12 h
September–November 2025: Psychosomatics, 60 h
September–October 2025: Art-based coaching, 20 h
August 2025: Deep Brain Reorienting. Level 1 — Frank Corrigan, 12 h
August 2025: The “Flash” technique for trauma work
May–June 2025: Image Transformation Therapy. Advanced course, 25 h
April 2025: EMDR: working with attachment — Mark Brayne
March 2025: EMDR: working with behavioural problems — Mark Nickerson, 12 h
February 2025: Advanced and completed EMDR training — Mark Nickerson, 77 h
December 2024: Basic EMDR training, part 1
September 2024: Image Transformation Therapy. Basic course, 18 h
November 2023 – February 2024: Professional development course “Foundations of attachment theory”, 18 h
November 2023 – January 2024: Advanced training course “The applications of attachment theory to psychotherapy”, 20 h
November 2023 – January 2024: Professional development course (Giuseppe Civitarese) “Field theory and the dream of the session. New perspectives on psychoanalytic technique”
October–December 2023: Advanced training course “The London Lectures on Psychoanalysis, Series 3” — Dr. David Bell
October–December 2023: Professional development course “Psychological counselling: an integrative approach. Level 2”, 60 h
December 2023: Seminar “Magic of here-and-now: psychotherapy on the depth”, 8 h
November 2023: Professional development course “Attachment theory and its significance for psychotherapeutic practice”
November 2023: Seminar “Traumatic narcissism”, 10 h
September–October 2023: “CBT model of grief counselling and accompaniment”, 9 h
June–August 2023: Professional development course “Psychological counselling: an integrative approach. Level 1”, 60 h
July–August 2023: Professional development course “Working with addiction”, 15 h
2021–2022: Psychiatric propaedeutics — Ukrainian Union of Psychotherapists, 166 h
2021–2022: Gestalt therapy, level 1 — Kyiv Gestalt University, 150 h
2021: Mental and behavioural disorders. Basics of psychiatric propaedeutics, 10 h