I have been working as a psychotherapist and a well-being consultant with the Harley Therapy private clinic for a number of years and can proudly call it my professional home: https://www.harleytherapy.co.uk
I also work as a Senior Mental Health Consultant at Pregma UK. Most recently, I have successfully collaborated with the Curated Community social platform and recorded several interviews for Parkinsons UK.
London Trusted Therapy, Education and Research company that I founded in 2023, is honoured to be a part of a global research project conducted by the Nagoya University of Japan. I have met Professor Yasuhiro Suzuki at the award ceremony at Health 2.0 Conference in Dubai in 2024 where he presented his invention (Vebrotactile X) to enhance the outcome of therapeutic work with anxiety, depression and CPTSD. Currently, we are testing the device in London (anxiety and depression) and Ukraine (anxiety, depression, CPTSD) . We are looking forward to adding more data to already collected by our colleagues in Japan (Nagoya and Akita province), provided by the London Trial Group, UK and the Odessa Medical University of Ukraine.
And finally, I am very excited about my collaboration with the Simon Langford School in Kent . The teenage population of the school has kindly offered their help in sharing ideas and providing critique for my new book in progress which will be written specifically for the teenagers. We are exchanging regular correspondence and I value greatly the time and feedback provided by the teenage community of the school and their teachers.
“My Brilliant Resilient Self” is a working title of my new book for teenagers , their parents and grandparents which is being written with teenagers, critiqued and revised by them.
It is a book on building resilience, happiness and well-being and will be presented as a graphic novel, conceptually illustrated by a young and very talented illustrator, Ms Natalka Soiko. I have worked with Natalka on my first book “ Anxie the Hedgehog”, her work is truly magical and we work together really well. Natalka and her family are currently based in the Ukraine, which makes our collaboration even more poignant for me. She has a beautiful studio in Kamyanets Podilskiy ( Western Ukraine) and runs a dog shelter for the animals abandoned by or separated with their owners during the war. Should you wish to support her humanitarian work in animal care, please email me directly and I will put you in touch with her.
Here are some abstracts from the new book to give you a taste of it.
“The idea of this book was long in the making : I wanted to do a book for teenagers as I always loved working with them. I am grateful to them as I keep continuously learning from them, they inspire me with their courage and honesty, they amaze me with their wit and deceit. I am also acutely aware how much we have collectively let them down as a society, as responsible adults.”…
“The idea of this book is to provide certain reference points , some of which could already be known to you , and bring them all together backed by my personal reflections as a therapist . When possible, I would supplement them with clinically tried and tested tools and strategies , which you might consider trying to help you down regulate, manage your anxiety or anger and build some healthy habits…. These anchoring points or concepts , if you like, developed by myself as a therapist over the years of my clinical practice, come highly recommended by my numerous clients who encouraged me to write this book. This does not mean that all of them will work for you, as with any practice, to make it work - we need to make it our own . To give the book some structure and help you remember some of my well-being techniques, I decided to use the alphabet and be a little playful about it : at the end, the book might look like an organised creative chaos with ideas, tools , thoughts, reflections and strategies intertwined, described and graphically represented. I consciously wanted this book to be also an art book , and have an illustration to demonstrate every idea in a vivid and aesthetically appealing way . For example, I like using the metaphor of a House to represent the concept of Well-Being , I created the phrase Well-Being House…”
And, finally, a bit about myself
I like the sea, philosophy, fashion, books, dogs, theatre and walks in nature.
© Dr. Olena Edwards-Skadowska
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