Guides co-created with the client on mindfulness, self-help, and care practices based on their authentic linguistic and social context and current aspirations.
In my work, I rely on your experience, using methods based on practice and scientific data. The truth is, the latter is constantly changing. Just like our experience. Everyone has their own truth.
I work in two languages: Russian and English, my own and my clients’. A polyglot, in a word.
I work in two languages: Russian and English, my own and my clients’. A polyglot, in a word.
psychotherapy | supervision | mediation | training
Connection.
Curiosity.
Presence.
andrey pentin
Systemic Approach:
- Many years of experience in psychoeducation and psychological support across diverse fields: working with families, schools, entrepreneurs, correctional facilities, business communities, human rights defenders, activists, and private consultations
- Attention to cultural, social, and local contexts
- Incorporation of contemporary scientific research
- The principle of «trust in dialogue and verify through experience»
Personal Experience:
- Overcoming traumatic experiences in close relationships, bullying, and emigration
- Experiencing anxiety-depressive disorder
- Gaining strength: from severe asthma to championship in Eastern martial arts
- Rhizomatic passions: from dance and documentary photography to football and tea ceremonies
Diversity, Modernity, and Flexibility of Methods:
- EMDR
- Embodiment
- Mindfulness
- Narrative Practice
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Interpersonal Neurobiology
- Motivational Interviewing
Approach, Experience, Methods
Collaboration Formats
Psychotherapy: individual, couples, families, partners
Psychological support for people facing difficulties that affect their quality of life and relationships with others and themselves.
Working with current challenges, overcoming painful experiences, and strengthening satisfaction with one’s own life.
Working with current challenges, overcoming painful experiences, and strengthening satisfaction with one’s own life.
Supervision: for helping practitioners and those who work with people
Collegial support focusing on the specialist themselves, their client, methodological assistance, and professional skills. A format for those seeking balance and systematization by combining different methods and approaches, and the possibility to embody their style and worldview without amateurism, as a “competent psychologist” without the “impostor syndrome.”
Facilitation and Mediation
Assistance in reaching mutually acceptable and effective agreements in partnerships, resolving conflicts, and overcoming crisis situations.
Training
Individual coaching sessions, group training formats, and online courses aimed at mastering specific skills and achieving certain goals in work and other projects.
Focus on development and long-term transformation through consistent progress toward goals in a short-term format and addressing specific topics and methods.
Focus on development and long-term transformation through consistent progress toward goals in a short-term format and addressing specific topics and methods.
Stages of Collaboration
Introduction
When reaching out for the first time, you briefly describe your “request” and context. In response, I offer you a free short video call to discuss the start of collaboration and necessary organizational steps. After that, we formalize an agreement on the format, timeframe, frequency, cost, and regulations.
Start of Work
Next, we begin the work, develop a substantive plan, and move flexibly in accordance with it. At this stage, it is important to strengthen the personal contact between us and the alliance — a shared understanding of the goal and the methods to achieve it, a sense of partnership, flexibility, and responsiveness of the therapist in the relationship with the client.
Support
At the end of each session, we exchange suggestions on what to pay attention to and which practices to engage in — a kind of homework for each other. Their purpose is to be interesting and to work on the preferred aspects of the client’s experience.
Feedback
From time to time, we evaluate progress toward your initial request and may modify the overall plan, expand the range of formats, or come to a temporary or final conclusion of the work depending on the achieved goals and satisfaction with the collaboration.
Cost of a Psychotherapeutic Session:
100 euros / 80 min
80 euros / 60 min
The cost of other formats depends on the volume and objectives and is determined together during the introductory stage
100 euros / 80 min
80 euros / 60 min
The cost of other formats depends on the volume and objectives and is determined together during the introductory stage
On the Approach to Working with People and Their Stories
I view helping practices in general—and psychotherapy, coaching, and mediation in particular—as relationships of collaboration and co-creation, focused on the authentic experience of specific individuals, their goals and hopes, while also considering various methods and tools that I offer as a kind of samples, building blocks, which we customize together to construct a path toward fulfilling people’s aspirations. In this process, we find ways to navigate “diagnoses,” “disorders,” “crises,” “conflicts,” and other challenges, selecting appropriate solutions for them.
In my work, I use different forms of feedback and accountability, and I am interested in creating unique and authentic “programs” of change in co-authorship with clients, so we can track progress together while maintaining the ability to address important contexts, combining creative and investigative “lenses” with a solution-oriented collaborative structure.
I will certainly not be the right fit for everyone, but this usually becomes clear after an introduction, establishing contact, and beginning to build an alliance. It depends less on the topic of the problems or requests I encounter and the people I collaborate with.
I am politically correct but not neutral, intelligent but not harsh, valuable in communication but not a nuisance, broad-minded—through life I both tremble and strive for the right to have. I consider the idea “respect must be earned” to be a national trait and painful because of that. I choose differently and don’t think it’s a special path. I find people interesting and likable as a whole, individually, and in connection—with each other and with the things that matter to them. And everyone has those.
I have been engaged in helping practices for over 15 years—since studying at the Psychology Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Besides private practice, over this time, naively, I danced with windmills—in “elite” schools and special boarding schools, worked on projects with business contexts. For several years, I supervised volunteers supporting children and adolescents in “difficult life situations,” conducted training in mediation and nonviolent communication. For two years, I was co-lead of the international Embodied Facilitator Course Russia program, which changed me roughly as much as my encounter with narrative practice and depression. I have always wanted, “want and will,” to facilitate changes in the lives of people for whom it is important to defend their right to dignity and quality of life and to embody it despite social circumstances. And thankfully.
The position of a helping practitioner like me, from which the use of any method flows, is based on the idea of the client’s expertise regarding their experience, the specialist’s expertise in assisting them in embodying their preferences, and the ethics of collaboration between them. The client’s ethics are mainly described in terms of organizational matters, while the specialist’s ethics, in addition to organizational aspects, include things like “trauma-informed care” (i.e., creating ecologically safe conditions for work considering the client’s current context), as well as “strengths-based approach,” “zone of proximal development,” and “transparency.”
Due to the principle of transparency for the client and my interest in the profession, I describe in detail the methods of modern psychotherapy and helping practices that I use in my work. In the professional community, these methods are broadly called collaborative.
Among them, I use
In my work, I use different forms of feedback and accountability, and I am interested in creating unique and authentic “programs” of change in co-authorship with clients, so we can track progress together while maintaining the ability to address important contexts, combining creative and investigative “lenses” with a solution-oriented collaborative structure.
I will certainly not be the right fit for everyone, but this usually becomes clear after an introduction, establishing contact, and beginning to build an alliance. It depends less on the topic of the problems or requests I encounter and the people I collaborate with.
I am politically correct but not neutral, intelligent but not harsh, valuable in communication but not a nuisance, broad-minded—through life I both tremble and strive for the right to have. I consider the idea “respect must be earned” to be a national trait and painful because of that. I choose differently and don’t think it’s a special path. I find people interesting and likable as a whole, individually, and in connection—with each other and with the things that matter to them. And everyone has those.
I have been engaged in helping practices for over 15 years—since studying at the Psychology Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Besides private practice, over this time, naively, I danced with windmills—in “elite” schools and special boarding schools, worked on projects with business contexts. For several years, I supervised volunteers supporting children and adolescents in “difficult life situations,” conducted training in mediation and nonviolent communication. For two years, I was co-lead of the international Embodied Facilitator Course Russia program, which changed me roughly as much as my encounter with narrative practice and depression. I have always wanted, “want and will,” to facilitate changes in the lives of people for whom it is important to defend their right to dignity and quality of life and to embody it despite social circumstances. And thankfully.
The position of a helping practitioner like me, from which the use of any method flows, is based on the idea of the client’s expertise regarding their experience, the specialist’s expertise in assisting them in embodying their preferences, and the ethics of collaboration between them. The client’s ethics are mainly described in terms of organizational matters, while the specialist’s ethics, in addition to organizational aspects, include things like “trauma-informed care” (i.e., creating ecologically safe conditions for work considering the client’s current context), as well as “strengths-based approach,” “zone of proximal development,” and “transparency.”
Due to the principle of transparency for the client and my interest in the profession, I describe in detail the methods of modern psychotherapy and helping practices that I use in my work. In the professional community, these methods are broadly called collaborative.
Among them, I use
- Embodiment methods or “Bottom up”: those primarily oriented toward working with the state of the nervous system, behavior, and attention to bodily experience: EMDR, interpersonal neurobiology, and other psychophysiological models.
- Identity focused methods or “top down”—such as narrative therapy and solution-focused therapy, for example.
In my blog, I try to describe how these methods complement each other, helping us connect corporeality, stress and the nervous system, consciousness, psyche, behavior, relationships, feelings, experiences, values, beliefs, and social context into a coherent story about oneself and a sense of being able to influence and direct its development and content.
Blog
Participant Testimonials
Andrey Pentin’s training is two hours of pure delight. Today, when there is a sea of stress and problems both around and within a person, the ability to cope with them with minimal consequences and even with pleasure is invaluable. Being able to stand firmly on the ground—in the literal sense of the word—is very useful for life. And Andrey literally teaches you to do this in just a couple of hours.
Yulia G.
public figure
public figure
As an IB madricha, I observed Andrey's weekly community meetings program with our international students throughout the year. He consistently created a safe and supportive space where students felt comfortable sharing challenges related to boarding school life and the demands of the IB curriculum.
Olga V.
teacher
teacher
Andrey listens carefully and organizes information—both after sessions and in real time. He perceives and feels the audience subtly, reacts instantly. He skillfully leads to results while still managing to pay attention to each individual.
Vladimir T. entrepreneur
“It was in Russia — it was long ago”