Elena Zakharova

My special professional interest fields are: selective mutism, immigration, third culture children, elderly people in the modern world, going through chronic and severe diseases.

Educational qualification
1995- 2000 Volgograd State Pedagogical University. Volgograd, Russia. Diploma:
Psychologist. Teacher of Psychology. 2000--2001 Moscow Institute of Pedagogical Innovations. Certificate: Psychodrama and dramatization techniques.
2004 Volgograd State Medical Academy. Certificate: Clinical Psychologist.
2017-2018 Three levels of "The Murray Method" - the internationally acclaimed approach
to becoming a healthy balanced person, creating wholeness beyond trauma, abuse, neglect
and addiction. Moscow, Russia.
2018-2022 Sandplay Therapy. International Society for Sandplay Therapy Certificate: Sandplay Therapist.
2019-2024 Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy (Lithuanian Association for Analytical Psychology . Certificate: Jungian Analyst.

Work Experience
2002 –2003 Psychiatric Health Centre for Children and Adolescents. Position: Clinical Psychologist

2003 –2004 Child Clinic N 9, Volgograd. Position: Clinical Psychologist

2003 – 2006 Volgograd Regional Clinic of Narcology. Position: Clinical Psychologist
2006 Relocation to the UK
2013 Relocation to China
2017 Relocation to Hungary
2006 to 2017. Private practice
2017 – present. Privat practice in Budapest, Hungary.

2017 – 2024. Part time work at Russian Cultural Center “Alfavit” in Budapest, Hungary. Psychologist, psychotherapist.
2022 – present. Part time work at Workplace Options, LLC, Clinical department, provider on a helpline, psychologist.
2023 – 2025 Budapest British International Academy. Budapest, Hungary. Consultancy, work with sand and miniatures. Part time.
2024 - present Jesuit Refugee Service Budapest, Hungary. Consultancy, psychotherapy, work with sand and miniatures. Part time.

Membership in professional organizations:
Member of Lithuanian Association for Analytical Psychology LAAP, member of International Association for Analytical Psychology IAAP, member of International Society for Sandplay Therapy.