About me
Vanya Hristova Ovcharova
A psychotherapist in private practice, working mainly in the neo-Reichian approach. My psychotherapy practice began in 1996.
Education
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1996
Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sofia
Degree in social work, a five-year course.
Diploma thesis on “Neuroticism in the unemployed personality”.
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1998
University of Oxford
Course in cognitive behavioural therapy (visiting professors in Bulgaria).
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2000
Westdeutsche Akademie, Düsseldorf-Mülheim, Germany
Postgraduate school for psychology and psychotherapy, together with the Medical University of Sofia, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski and the International Academy for the Exchange and Development of Culture and Science, Lugano, Switzerland.
Speciality: analytic psychotherapy, neo-Reichian school. A four-year course, completed with a final exam in Lugano, Switzerland.
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today
Continuing education
I take part in conferences, trainings and courses, including those of other schools of psychotherapy. I am interested in a range of therapeutic techniques, methods and approaches.
Professional experience
1996: start of my psychotherapy practice.
The required hours and practice during the training at the Westdeutsche Akademie, from April 1996 to September 2000, under the supervision of Prof. Waldo Bernasconi and Prof. Rosella Deloca.
I work as a psychotherapist in private practice, mainly in the neo-Reichian approach:
- group psychotherapy
- individual psychotherapy
- family counselling
- human resources consulting and management
- groups with teenagers
- courses
- trainings
A collaborator on several European Commission programmes with disadvantaged parents and with parents of children who have problems at school; work on a European project for the prevention of violence among teenagers.
Publications and media
Articles on psychotherapy in Bulgarian and foreign publications: Zdravey magazine, Human Resources magazine, consulting editor of My Child magazine, Intimni dijalozi magazine, Skopje.
Consultations and expert opinion on questions of psychotherapy in programmes of Nova Television, 7 Dni, BBT and BiTV.
Memberships
- Member of the Association of Psychotherapists in Bulgaria (BAP).
- Member of the Bulgarian Neo-Reichian Society (BND), the society of psychotherapists practising neo-Reichian analytic psychotherapy in Bulgaria.
- Member of the board of the BND.