shaped my practice
Experiences that
About me:
This experience taught me that meaning does not arise on its own — it needs a space where it can be noticed, shaped and lived through.
This is where my attention to detail developed, as well as my sensitivity to different forms of experience and to how they come together into a whole.
Later, this interest brought me to Gestalt practice. My personal experience of depression became a point where philosophical questions stopped being abstract and required a different way of being lived through.
Gestalt opened for me the possibility of working directly with experience — through attention, presence and inquiry.
Today, I live in Italy and continue to explore questions of adaptation, difference, and how a person inhabits a new reality. Moving became not only a life event, but also a professional interest — how we find our place when familiar supports change.
Art remains part of my life and work as a way of maintaining sensitivity and attunement. Music, cinema and literature are not just interests for me, but forms of attention that help me listen more precisely to another person.
For me, this work is a space where different kinds of experience can be present without the need to immediately change them.
It is a dialogue in which clarity, support and the possibility of choice gradually appear.
My path into this work began with an interest in how human experience is structured — how we experience ourselves and how our relationships with others take shape. I have always been interested in what makes us feel alive, and what, on the contrary, distances us from ourselves.
At first, this was the language of art. I studied art history, worked in project organisation, and was part of the National Centre for Contemporary Art, including within the programme “Theoretical Research in Cultural Anthropology”.
I continue to stay connected to art, exhibitions, cinema and theatre. This is less about leisure and more about a way of staying in contact with the world and with myself.
I play the piano, love music and continue learning. I live with two dogs, and with them there is more presence in everyday life.
Beyond my professional role, I remain a person for whom simple and real things matter.
A bit about me
outside of work
My intention is to create a space where you can hear yourself more clearly, make sense of your experiences, and find your own ways of being in contact with yourself and with others.
If you feel ready for this process, it can begin with a conversation.
Olga Demina
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In my international practice I offer consultations on personal development, self-exploration, and emotional balance. This is not a substitute for clinical psychotherapy in countries where that profession is regulated.