Hello, my name is Nadya.

I am Jungian Arts-based facilitator, and artist live in Laguna Beach, California.

 

My journey into the inner world started well before I began offering healing work through ART - when I was still working as a photographer, seeing through the lens, and deepening my understanding through years of contemplative practice and study rooted in Tibetan Buddhism.

 

Over time, I also studied psychology and symbolic approaches to healing in Russia, and trained with teachers in both traditional and integrative modalities.

 

For over a decade, I worked as a photographer. What moved me most was witnessing a subtle transformation during each photo shoot. When my clients would often see not just an image, but a reflection of something true and beautiful within. In many ways, this was my first experience of holding space.

 

Alongside this, since my early twenties, I have been deeply engaged with Buddhism. Vipassana and later Tibetan buddhism: attending retreats, visiting monasteries in northern India, and studying with lineage teachers. This spiritual foundation quietly supports my therapeutic work, offering a sense of inner spaciousness, compassion, and awareness that I try to bring into every session.

 

Born and raised in Russia, I moved to Los Angeles at 32. Life has rarely followed a straight line but I’ve come to believe that the path we walk is often the one our deeper Self has always known. California, in all its complexity, tested and transformed me. It gave me warmth, challenges, priceless connections, the space to meet myself in new ways and grow.

 

7 years ago, I returned to a childhood dream and began to paint. It quickly became a vital part of my life.

 

When the pandemic paused my photography career, I turned inward and followed a deeper call. I completed a year-long training in arts-based methods, followed by two years of advanced studies in Jungian-oriented depth work.

 

Since then, I’ve continued to deepen my work through ongoing study and exploration. I regularly attend art therapy conferences, as well as international academic and practical conferences held by the Moscow Association for Analytical Psychology. I stay engaged with a wide range of topics that inform my practice: from ADHD, disordered eating, and somatic psychology to dreamwork and archetypal approaches to healing.

 

At the core of it all is a devotion to the symbolic process, learning to listen more closely to what images, dreams, and the body are trying to say, and how this dialogue can support healing, integration and inner expansion.

 

My path has always been about guiding myself and others - from literalism to the symbol, from inner fragmentation to a deep meaning, from intellectual understanding to deep felt-sense.