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Alena Akulova

Quality Life Psychology

Author’s site about internal changes, relationships, recovery after crises and quality of life. A separate section is dedicated to neurodifferences and DIRFloortime®
Alena Akulova

Glad to welcome you! Here you can slow down, get your bearings and choose the topic that is closest to you right now

Psychological and psychotherapeutic materials for living with more support

I write about self-support, relationships, crises, recovery from trauma, emigration, burnout, the body as our powerful support, as well as neurodifferences and DIRFloortime®. You can start not with the menu, but with the topic that is closest to you now.

The materials on the site can be read at your own pace: as support, guidance and an invitation to take more care of yourself.

Select a topicWhere to start

Navigation

What is closest to your heart right now?

RecoverBurnout, fatigue, adaptation, migration, loss of strength and search for support.›
Understand relationshipsIntimacy, boundaries, choices, family scenarios and self-contact.›
Live more sustainably and be kinder to yourselfEveryday support, self-support, habits, body, pauses and quality of life without the race for “ideality”.›
Psychotherapy for NeurodifferencesASD, ADHD, sensory sensitivity, overload, self-regulation and living with neurodevelopmental differences.›
DIRFloortime® and development through relationshipsTraining, materials and a caring approach to the development of children and adults through contact, play and emotional safety.›

Materials and directions

A library of support

Quality of life
Articles about everyday sustainabilitySupport, restoration, body, crises, careful movement on.
Messages
Supportive messagesShort texts of support in thumbnail gallery format.
Video
Videos and podcastsMaterials that you can watch and listen to slowly.
Neuro
Neurodifferences in adults and childrenMaterials for understanding the features of the nervous system.
Topics
Blog TopicsMap of the main sections of the site: psychotherapy, quality of life, relationships, neurodifferences and DIRFloortime®.
Start
New readerIf you are new to the site: several materials that will help you navigate and choose where to start.

First step

Articles people often start with

If you don’t have enough strength and energy…How we betray ourselves step by stepWhen Trauma Becomes StrengthPsychotherapy for NeurodifferencesVideos and podcasts

Author of the project

Alena Akulova

Practicing psychologist with specializations in psychotherapy: body-oriented therapist, trauma therapist, accredited gestalt therapist, supervisor and trainer (I train specialists). I have been working with clients since 2005. In my work I combine both the integration of various psychological and psychotherapeutic approaches, and (on request) methods of working with neurodifferences in adults and children.

The focus of the project is quality of life: how to become more resilient, livelier, more kind to yourself and freer from debilitating scenarios.

More about me

Alena Akulova

Since 2005 – psychological practice and work with clients.
Psychotherapy, bodywork, trauma therapy and supervision.
DIRFloortime® and careful work with the topic of neurodifferences.