Articles and explainers
Plain answers to frequent questions about how the work is done. The Russian version holds the full texts.
Sections
- Anxiety and panic attacks5
- Family and relationships5
- Children and parents5
- Self-development5
- Modern life6
- Methods and process6
Anxiety and panic attacks
- Anxiety: normal or notWhere a normal reaction ends and something worth looking into begins.
- Panic attack: what to doWhat happens in the body during an attack and what to do in those minutes.
- Why panic comes backWhy a single episode turns into a way of life, and where the loop breaks.
- Bedtime anxietyWhy thoughts start when the light goes off, and what to change this week.
- RuminationHow replaying differs from thinking, and how to step out of the loop.
Family and relationships
- Why couples argue in circlesA repeating argument has a script, and the script is stronger than the trigger.
- Silence in a coupleFrom outside they look alike; from inside they cannot be confused.
- Talking about moneyThe argument is almost never about money: it is about safety and fairness.
- A crisis of trustThe honest answer is: not always. But more often than people think.
- Alone or together«My partner will not come» is not a dead end. When each format fits.
Children and parents
- Teenager shut downThe harder you push, the deeper the defence. What works instead of questions.
- Childhood anxietyAge-appropriate or not, what makes it worse and what actually helps.
- Child and divorceWhat must be said, what must never be said and when a specialist is needed.
- Childhood traumaNot every upset is trauma. The difference is impact against support.
- Play therapyPlay is the language a child uses for what words cannot carry yet.
Self-development
- Inner criticWhere it came from, why ignoring it fails and what works instead.
- Burnout is not lazinessThree stages of burnout, why a holiday does not fix it and where to start.
- Boundaries without guiltWhere the guilt comes from, three myths about boundaries and how to practise.
- Self-esteemWhy the rate keeps falling and what works instead of the slogan.
- ProcrastinationPeople postpone not tasks but the feelings attached to them.
Modern life
- Phone and doomscrollingWhy it is so sticky, an honest self-test and what actually works.
- Digital burnoutWhat changed, the signs it is time to act and what actually helps.
- Adult ADHDWhy everyone recognises themselves and why self-diagnosis cuts both ways.
- News anxietyHow staying informed turns into staying anxious, and what to do about it.
- Urban lonelinessPlenty of people around, few real connections — and what to do about it.
- AI instead of therapyWhat AI does reasonably well, where the line runs and a sane protocol.
Methods and process
- How a first session goesStep by step: before the session, the opening minutes and what you leave with.
- Why sessions differ in lengthAn hour, two hours or fifty minutes — what stands behind each number.
- Hypnotherapy: the evidenceStrong data, modest data and gaps, with links to primary sources.
- What online tests measureWhat the score shows, how to read it and when a test is not the answer.
- Is therapy workingEarly and mid signs, the main criterion and when it is time to finish.
- Online or in personWhat stays the same, what online gives, what the room gives and for whom.