“Symbolic Space with Ekaterina has been an invaluable process for me in helping to uncover and process new ways of seeing myself and the way I relate to the world. Being given the freedom, encouragement and support to test my edges and explore new depths in a space that is held with such attention and care has been profoundly transformative. It is a completely unique experience that is very hard to put into words–it needs to be felt.”
Ayana Levy
“The Symbolic Space sessions have been profound and transformative for me. It is rare to find a method that combines community, play, and therapeutic opportunity in such a visceral and alive way. I found the use of objects deeply healing, helping me to process very vulnerable, non-conscious material safely. The work of externalising and abstracting inner experience into the symbolic realm allows a whole layer of the psyche to unfold. It has been revelatory for me and has positively influenced my own clinical practice.”
Dr Maeve Butler
“Ekaterina’s sessions take me into intuition, feeling, routes towards and around and through problems or areas in my life that I can’t see otherwise. It (symbolic space) might be a sibling of meditation & counselling but my gut says I use it as a bridge between the two. Apart from writing, which I do a lot, I have no creative outlet. Making art felt contrived sadly. But in symbolic space I make sculptures and scenes and want to keep making more and see what arrives. What I create there is full of meaning, and I’m un-selfconscious about it because of that, which makes me v happy.”
Jasmine Owens
“I believe it changed my brain. It changed the way I saw my problems and experiences, especially interpersonal ones, even outside of the sessions. Somehow I had more room to consider how other people’s reactions may be fitting into their personal journeys in the moments we interacted. I could think in terms of parts of myself. I could see that certain emotions or thoughts I was having came from other people and it was much easier to separate them out, understand the motivation behind them, and ask myself more deeply about what I really needed. It gave me a sense of spiritual peace, because going to the Symbolic Space showed me time and again that the ebbs and flows of life could be trusted to show me something eventually and there would always be something to learn.”
Antigone Hanna