Anna Silnitskaya

For the past 12 years I have been working and growing in several directions:

as a counseling psychologist and psychotherapist (for the last 10 of those years as an EMDR therapist, and for the last 2 years also as a couples therapist);
in 2024 I closed the project “You Are Not Alone”, which I had led for 10 years and which I co-founded with my colleague Elena Baskina. The project team had 5 people. My contribution was developing the program of a support group for women, which I facilitated for 7 years;
as a mediator for the last 7 years (together with two colleagues, I conduct mediations with work teams and families);
as a visiting lecturer in higher education (MSUPE, RANEPA, HSE University);
as an author of academic papers (2016) and commentary for the media;
as a UX researcher

Education

Candidate of Sciences in Psychology (PhD equivalent), 2016

Specialist degree (psychologist, lecturer in psychology), Faculty of Psychology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 2006

Further training

2011–2012 – Center for Narrative Psychology and Practice, long-term program “Narrative Therapy: From Theory and Training to Starting Your Own Practice”

2014–2015 – Federal Institute of Mediation, long-term program “International Family Mediation” (300 academic hours)

2015 – Lisa Parkinson (UK), “International Family Mediation”

2015 – EMDR Association Russia, EMDR Basic Training, Part 1

2016 – Mark Hayward (UK), seminar “Trauma and Its Effects: Narrative Therapy Responses”

2017 – Dolores Mosquera (Spain), seminar “EMDR Therapy for Dissociative Disorders: A Progressive Approach”

2017 – Maggie Carey (Australia), seminar “In Spite of Violence: The Possibilities of Narrative Therapy”

2018 – Marcela Polanco (Colombia), seminar “Against Objectivity: Magical Realism in Psychotherapy”

2019 – EMDR Association Russia, EMDR Basic Training, Part 2

2024 – Yandex Practicum, “UX Research for Everyone” (professional development program)

2025 – EMDR Association Russia, EMDR Practitioner accreditation

Private practice

2013 – present – counseling psychologist and therapist in private practice; for the last 6 of those years, as an EMDR therapist
2018 – present – mediator in private practice
2019 – 2025 – director of the non-profit “You Are Not Alone”, facilitator of support groups for women
Responsibilities: developing the program and facilitating a support group for women, leading a team of 4, managing a grant project (Presidential Grants Foundation).

Employment (including teaching)

2021 – Visiting lecturer, Department of Psychology, HSE University (Higher School of Economics)

Responsibilities: designing and teaching the practicum “Mediation Skills” for third-year bachelor’s students.

2020 – Visiting lecturer, RANEPA
Responsibilities: taught a new experimental course on interviewing techniques for third-year bachelor’s students of the Faculty of Journalism, together with another lecturer.

2013 – 2014 – educational psychologist at the “Rost” Center for Psychological, Medical and Social Support.
Responsibilities: psychological counseling for parents and children; taking part in social work with schoolchildren (whole classes).

2014 – 2018 – junior researcher at the Federal Institute of Mediation (since reorganized).
Responsibilities: work on projects under the state assignment; teaching mediation; writing articles.

2015 – 2018 – associate professor, Department of Mediation in the Social Sphere, Faculty of Legal Psychology, MSUPE (Moscow State University of Psychology and Education)
Responsibilities: teaching lecture and seminar courses on writing qualification papers (master’s theses), supervising term papers and thesis projects, teaching a course on neuroscience findings useful to mediators.

Publications

My academic publications (titles of Russian-language papers are given in English translation):

1. Silnitskaya, A. S. A comparative analysis of the influence of demonstrativeness, hyperthymia and dysthymia on the intonation parameters of speech / A. N. Gusev, A. S. Silnitskaya // National Psychological Journal. — 2013. — Vol. 9. — No. 1. — P. 110−128. — 1.06 / 0.53 printed sheets [RSCI impact factor = 0.449].
2. Silnitskaya, A. S. Character and temperamental determinants of prosodic parameters of natural speech / A. S. Silnitskaya, A. N. Gusev // Psychology in Russia: State of the Art. — 2013. — Vol. 6. — No. 3. — P. 95−106. — 0.94 / 0.47 printed sheets [SCOPUS: SJR = 0.41].
3. Silnitskaya, A. S. The influence of demonstrativeness and communicative activity of personality on the intonation parameters of speech in different communication situations / A. N. Gusev, A. S. Silnitskaya // Herald of Tver State University. — Series “Pedagogy and Psychology”. — 2014. — No. 2. — P. 77−98. — 1.1 / 0.55 printed sheets [RSCI impact factor = 0.020].
4. Zotova (Silnitskaya), A. S. The relationship between speech intonation characteristics and individual personality traits / A. S. Zotova (Silnitskaya), A. N. Gusev // Proceedings of the research-to-practice congresses of the 3rd All-Russian Forum “The Health of the Nation Is the Foundation of Russia’s Prosperity”. — Vol. 3. — Part 2. — Section “Psychology in the Interdisciplinary Field of Sciences” / Proceedings of the 14th International Conference of Students, Postgraduates and Young Scientists “Lomonosov 2007”, Psychology Section. — Moscow: MSU, 2007. — 688 p. — P. 299−301. — 0.076 / 0.038 printed sheets.
5. Silnitskaya, A. S. The influence of demonstrativeness and communicative activity of personality on the dynamics of vocal speech parameters / A. S. Silnitskaya, A. N. Gusev // The Experimental Method in the Structure of Psychological Knowledge / Executive editor V. A. Barabanshchikov; edited by A. N. Gusev. — Moscow: Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Publishing, 2012. — P. 612−616. — 0.94 / 0.47 printed sheets.
6. Silnitskaya, A. S. Demonstrativeness and communicative activity of personality as reflected in the vocal characteristics of speech / A. S. Silnitskaya, A. N. Gusev // The Living Word: Logos — Voice — Movement — Gesture. Collected articles and materials / Compiled and edited by V. V. Feshchenko. — Moscow: Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie, 2015. — 480 p. — P. 407−427. — 0.94 / 0.47 printed sheets.
7. Silnitskaya, A. S. Metaphor as a tool for thinking about conflict // Bulletin of the Federal Institute of Mediation. — 2017. — No. 1. — http://fimvestnik.ru/first-issue/
8. Shamlikashvili, Ts. A., Ostrovsky, A. N., Kabanova, E. V., Silnitskaya, A. S. Mediation in healthcare: from law enforcement to a dialogue about rights // Sociology of Medicine. 2017. No. 2. URL: cyberleninka.ru/article/n/mediatsiya-v-zdravoohranenii-ot-pravoprimeneniya-k-dialogu-o-pravah (accessed: 12.05.2021).

My non-academic publications, commentary and podcast appearances (in Russian):

Commentary for N+1 on why and for what purpose people turn to astrology

https://nplus1.ru/material/2018/01/30/astrology-psychological-mechanisms

The “Bolshe vsekh nado” podcast, episode “When There Are No Children”

https://youtu.be/EcO3Ylo6e4E?si=TPkwGv6QEadBNSpS

https://takiedela.ru/news/2021/09/03/reproduktivnye-trudnosti/

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