Ukrainian Institute of Client-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy UICCEP
Organisation
Registered: 21/06/2025
Address: Konstitution 20 Kharkiv 61003
Country: Ukraine
Telephone: +380 506 032 919
Profile:-
1. The Institute was founded on 29.02.2012.
2. The Institute is a member of the Ukrainian Psychological Association and EFPA
3. The Institute has 75 members from different regions of Ukraine.
4. All members of the Institute are psychologists by education.
5. The Institute conducts training programs in the direction of client-centered psychotherapy (the main direction), and also contributes to the improvement of psychotherapeutic knowledge by inviting specialists from other directions (TRE and Brainspotting - Andreas Herold; Polymodal supervision - Ljah Igor and Zukov Alexandr; Treating trauma and addiction with the felt sense polyvagal model – Winhall Jan), publishes books (3 books: "Psychotherapy as a nonverbal practice", 2014; "Sex-Role psychology", 2015; "Emotional Coldness Syndrome in Interpersonal Relationships", 2019), conducts psychoeducation of the population, media appearances, and promotes the ideas of client-centered psychotherapy in the academic environment and among practitioners in the field of psychological counseling and psychotherapy.
6. Training programs in client-centered psychotherapy have been conducted in Kharkiv, Sevastopol, Slavyansk, Khmelnitsky, and Kyiv. Since 2013, training has not been conducted in Slavyansk and Sevastopol for known reasons.
6. Training programs in client-centered psychotherapy include various forms: full training, workshops, lectures, webinars, etc.
7. Today 57 people from different cities of Ukraine are trained on full 4,5 - year program and 52 people are trained on long master classes.
8. 50 people received a certificate of full education in the PCA.
9. Regular client groups are organized - today there are three groups (facilitators - Oleksandr Kocharyan, Nadezhda Tereshchenko and Igor Kocharyan).
9.1. 4 online encounter groups (once per week) 10-12 persons each. 2 online group of psychological support (once per week) 8 persons.
9.2. Webinars on the topics of psychological resilience for Ukrainians tech-companies.
9.3. Psychological support of Ukrainian charity foundation “RescueNOW” (webinars, articles, publication in social media).
9.4. Free crisis consultation for the members of military families.
9.5. Organization and support of the free course “Psychological disorders in children” from American Psychological association for Ukrainian child psychologists.
9.6. Supporting Ukrainian graduate students who have been displaced by war in Ukraine using the continuing education platform at the Northern Arizona University, Department of Psychological Sciences.
9.7. Supporting of cooperation between General Consulate of Ukraine in the USA and psychological organizations which provides professional help for Ukraine (Houston, Texas).
9.8. Organization of free webinars of Jan Winhall (Canada) for Ukrainians professionals.
9.9. Worshops “Client-centered psychotherapy” - 2 master classes every week.
10. The Institute participates in the EuroPsy committee (Kocharian Oleksandr and Zydko Maxim) for basic certification of psychologists in Ukraine.
11. The Institute participates in the working group on creation of professional standard "Psychotherapist" in Ukraine (Kocharian Oleksandr and Zydko Maxim).
12. Director of the Institute Kocharian Oleksandr is the editor-in-chief and member of the coaching staff Barinova Nataliia is the executive secretary of the scientific journal V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University. Karazin Kharkiv National University "Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy" (ISSN 2410-1249).
13. Field summer schools (Alupka, Sevastopol, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Spain, etc.) with 15 to 70 participants.
14. Teachers of the Institute (H. Kocharyan, N. Barinova, I. Kocharyan) provide a master's program at the Lesya Ukrainka National University in Volyn (Lutsk).
15. The trainers of the institute (H. Kocharyan, M. Zhidko, G. Kocharyan) participated in the 100 Meanings of Psychotherapy program (video anthology).
