Educational Psychologist, PhD in Psychology; Expert; Chair of the Expert Council
Education
2000 — Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Psychology, Department of Developmental Psychology — qualification: Psychologist, Teacher-Psychologist
2006 — Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Psychology — PhD in Psychology
Advanced training
2020 — OOO KMC “Pedagogy and Psychology” — program: Applied Behavior Analysis. Theoretical foundations, core concepts and methods. Ethical and socially significant practice of ABA.
2020 — Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences — program: Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT).
2014 — Academy for Advanced Studies and Professional Retraining of Educators (APK & PPRO) — program: Modern approaches and new technologies in working with children with special educational needs; Use of innovative technologies in supporting children with special educational needs.
2009 — Academy of Advanced Training and Professional Retraining of Educators — program: Special Psychology; Child Neuropsychology.
Additional education — courses:
2023–2024 — Caritas Social School — Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC).
2024 — COPM (Canadian Occupational Performance Measure).
2024 — DIR 204: The DIRFloortime® Expert Training Leader.
2022 — DIR 310: Using the Functional Emotional Assessment Scale (FEAS) to assess a child’s functional emotional capacities (ICDL).
2022 — DIR 203: Coaching Caregivers, Teachers, and Other Care Providers (ICDL).
Group supervisions (multiple times) for specialists working with families of children with developmental disabilities — organized by Center “Prostranstvo Obshcheniya”.
2021 — Makaton: Level 1 (Basic) — Regional non-profit social organization “Center for Curative Pedagogics”.
2021 — Introduction to Self-Reg for Professionals (Self-Reg Global).
2020 — Augmentative and Alternative Communication for children and adults with severe and multiple disabilities — Center “Prostranstvo Obshcheniya”.
2020 — Differential assessment of a child’s intellectual development using the Wechsler Scales (IMATON).
2019 — Early Start Denver Model (ESDM), Introductory Workshop (online).
2019 — Introductory training in licensed ASD diagnostic tools (ADOS-2, ADI-R, SCQ, CASD), Giunti Psychometrics s.r.l.
2016–2018 — Narrative Therapy: from theory and training to the start of independent practice (Center for Narrative Psychology and Practice).
2015 — EarlyBird licensed user training — The National Autistic Society (UK).
2011 — Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), Advanced (Pyramid Educational Consultants).
Programs and roles
September 1999 — volunteer at the Regional non-profit social organization “Center for Curative Pedagogics” (Moscow).
January 2000 – present — Psychologist at the Regional non-profit social organization “Center for Curative Pedagogics”; progressed from volunteer to expert; currently Chair of the Expert Council.
Worked as a school psychologist; taught psychology in a pedagogical class.
Former lecturer at Moscow City University of Psychology and Education and at the Faculty of Psychology, Nesterov Academy.
Practice: children with ASD; play groups; school-readiness groups; parent groups; EarlyBird parent program; CPD teaching and webinars on ASD.
Professional interests: DIR/Floortime, AAC, ASD diagnostics, narrative practice, SFBT.