Tania Tsvilodub

You speak, I listen and ask questions. You can come as you are and begin anywhere. There are usually several first meetings; they serve to see what is at stake and whether work between us is possible.

In many different ways. With anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia. With what is called burnout or PTSD. With loss, with guilt, with the disorientation that follows exile. Often with what has not yet found words. All of it can be brought here, and that is where the work begins.

The length of a session is not fixed in advance. It may end earlier or run longer. It is not the clock that stops it, but what has come to matter in your speech. This is part of the method, not carelessness about time.

It is not fixed in advance. A duration decided beforehand would decide the work in your place. Some come for a few months and leave with what they came for. Others stay a long time. You can stop at any point, and it needs no one's agreement.

Usually once a week, sometimes more. The rhythm is set at the beginning and can change. Less often than once a fortnight, the work loses its continuity.

Yes: analysis, in Ukrainian and Russian, wherever you are. The fee is the same as in person. The atelier does not work online: it requires a table, materials and a shared physical space.

Yes. Analysis cancels nothing and competes with nothing. If you see a psychiatrist or take prescribed medication, the work goes on alongside it.

A first phone or video conversation of fifteen to twenty minutes — free of charge. First meeting — €40; the amount is then set together, in the same range. Session with a child at the atelier — €40, materials included; meetings with the parent are part of the work and are not charged separately.

What is said in the consulting room stays there. I keep the rule of confidentiality and disclose neither names nor other details by which an analysand could be identified. I issue no attestation at a third party's request. Neither an employer, nor family, nor another professional receives information from me, except where you ask for it yourself.

A psychiatrist is a physician, and only a physician can prescribe medication. A psychologist holds a university degree in psychology; in Belgium the title has been protected by law since 1993. The practice of psychotherapy has likewise been framed by law since 2016 and reserved to certain health care professions. Psychoanalysis is neither a medical speciality nor a form of psychotherapy: it is a distinct practice, with its own history, its own schools and its own mode of authorisation.

Specialist diploma, practising psychologist, specialisation in psychoanalysis — International Institute of Depth Psychology, Kyiv, 2011–2014.
Bachelor "Assistant in psychology" (clinical orientation), Institut Libre Marie Haps, Brussels, in progress (2025–2027).
Theory and clinic of psychoanalysis (Freud–Lacan), 2011.
Training within the Champ freudien since 2014: École de la Cause freudienne, New Lacanian School, Section Clinique de Bruxelles.
Work in institutions receiving children and adolescents: Le Courtil, Ateliers du 94, La Soucoupe, Les Glycines, Périsphère.
The detail is under "Path".

What an adolescent says stays between us: I do not report the content of meetings to parents. The practical side — timing, payment — does nonetheless require that an adult knows the appointments are taking place. How to arrange this is discussed at the first conversation; knowing that there are appointments is not knowing what is said in them.

Yes. The atelier continues the tradition of institutions working precisely with autism: Le Courtil, Ateliers du 94, La Soucoupe. What a document calls ASD does not become the child's name here, and does not decide in advance what we will do. The work starts from what the child has already found for themselves.

No. No diagnosis, no referral, no waiting list. If an assessment has been made and there is a document, I will read it, but the work does not begin there. And if you are only waiting for an assessment, that is no reason to do nothing for months.

The session belongs to the child alone, it is their space. So that you know how the work is going, we meet regularly to talk about it. These meetings are part of the work.

A refusal is also something said: one works with it, not against it. Sometimes it is better for the parent to come alone first. Sometimes it is enough for the child to come and look at the room and leave. Forcing is neither necessary nor useful.

Yes, it is one of the most frequent reasons an adolescent is brought in. Behind no longer going to school there can be very different things. Our meetings serve precisely to understand what it is about here, and to work out what to do.