Vera Ščerbakova

VERA ŠČERBAKOVA – Jungian analyst and psychotherapist, Sandplay psychotherapist
Contact information:
Riga, Latvia
Mobile phone: +371 29109220
Email: vera.scerbakova@inbox.lv
Education 
in 1987 – the Faculty of Biology at the University of Latvia
in 2000 – the Master’s Degree in Pedagogy at the University of Latvia, the Institute of Pedagogy and Psychology
in 2011 – the Training Program of Analytical Psychotherapy at the Lithuanian Study Center of Practical Psychology, Vilnius University, Department of the Clinical and Organizational Psychology
in 2018 – the qualification of Jungian Psychoanalyst: analytical training program in accordance with the regulations of International Association for Analytical Psychology at the LAAP, Study Centre for Practical Psychology
Work experience
2011 - until now: Centre for Analytical Psychology and Sandplay Therapy, LTD, director
2009 - 2018: Linde von Keyserlingk Sandplay Therapy Institute, director
2001 - until now: private practice, psychotherapist
2001 – 2009: pre-school “Pūcīte”, psychotherapist
1988 – 2005: orphanage “Imanta”, psychotherapist
Psychotherapeutic activities
Individual psychotherapy and psychoanalysis for adults and children
Lectures and supervisions for psychotherapists and sandplay therapy specialists in Latvia and abroad
Membership in organizations
since 2008 – a founding member of the Latvian Society for Sandplay Therapy (LSST)
since 2009 – a member of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST)
since 2011 – a Teaching Member of Deutschen Gesellschaft für Sandspieltherapie (DGST)
since 2012 – a founding member of the Latvian Society for Jung’s Analytical Psychology (LJAB)
since 2017 – a Teaching Member of the International Society for Sandplay Therapy (ISST)
since 2019 – a member of the Lithuanian Association for Analytical psychology (LAPA)
since 2019 – a member of International Association for Analytical Psychology (IAAP)
Publications:
in 2001 (and an updated edition in 2008) at the publishing house RaKa – the book “Encouraging the child’s inner world”, which introduced the readers into the method of sandplay therapy.
in 2011 at the publishing house RaKa – the book “The World in the Sand” in Latvian: “Pasaule smiltīs” and in Russian: «Миры на песке», the first work created and published in Latvia, which includes a comprehensive in-depth presentation of the theoretical material of C. G. Jung and his followers providing the readers with an opportunity to understand more deeply the theoretical foundations of sandplay therapy created by Dora Kalff, as well as to more clearly see the perspectives of the whole therapeutic process.