About me
From classical medicine to a holistic understanding of the person
I was born in 1993 in Lida, Belarus, and grew up in a family of doctors. Medicine therefore entered my life long before it became my profession.
From childhood, I saw medicine not only from the outside but from within. I often heard my parents discussing difficult cases, diagnoses, and treatment decisions. It showed me that being a doctor is not only about knowing medicine — it is also about thinking carefully, noticing details, and making responsible decisions.
I was naturally curious about how the human body works. I wanted to understand why we get sick, how different organs work together, and what happens when something goes wrong. Biology and natural sciences were always the subjects that interested me most.
Over time, that curiosity became something more. I knew I wanted a profession where my knowledge could have a real impact on someone’s life.
So when it was time to choose my path after school, medicine felt like a natural choice.
Professional formation
I graduated with honours in General Medicine from the Belarusian State Medical University in Minsk.
Even as a medical student, I was never satisfied with simply memorising symptoms, diagnoses, and treatment guidelines. I wanted to understand why things happen. Why can the same disease affect two people so differently? Why does one person recover quickly while another continues to struggle? And how do lifestyle, stress, emotional state, and other factors influence physical health?
After medical school, I chose to specialise in cardiology. I was attracted by its precision and the need to make clear clinical decisions, sometimes very quickly. But cardiology also showed me how closely everything in the body is connected. The heart does not work on its own — blood pressure, kidneys, hormones, metabolism, nervous system, lifestyle, and emotional state can all influence cardiovascular health.
During my cardiology training, I also worked in the catheterisation laboratory, where I received additional training in coronary angiography and endovascular procedures, including coronary artery stenting.
This gave me the opportunity to experience cardiology from different sides — from diagnosis and medical treatment to emergency care and interventional procedures. More importantly, it taught me not to focus on a single symptom, test result, or diagnosis, but to look at the whole clinical picture.
Medicine across countries and circumstances
After completing my residency, I went to work in the Republic of Togo, my father's homeland. Working in private clinical practice in West Africa became an important professional and personal chapter.
This experience taught me to be flexible and independent. It also taught me to look beyond the diagnosis and see the person behind it — with their history, fears, beliefs and life circumstances. At some point, I felt that this chapter had given me what I needed to move forward.
After returning to Belarus, I continued my professional work at the Republican Scientific and Practical Centre ‘Cardiology’ and the Minsk Emergency Hospital. I also trained in endovascular cardiology and worked as an interventional cardiologist at Minsk City Clinical Hospital No. 4.
During this time, I worked in cardiology, intensive care units, catheterisation laboratories and emergency medicine. I encountered acute conditions, difficult clinical decisions, serious diagnoses and situations in which modern medicine quite literally saves lives or, on the contrary, throws up its hands.
Over time, this experience made me ask a broader question: is treating the physical side of illness always enough?
Why I came to hypnotherapy
As my clinical experience grew, I saw ever more clearly that the human body cannot be considered separately from the mind and a person's life story.
People often seek medical help when their symptoms become difficult to ignore. By that time, the problem may already affect their daily life. Medical tests may also show changes that are difficult or sometimes impossible to reverse. But the first signs may have appeared years earlier. These can include chronic stress, anxiety, inner tension, emotional exhaustion, or unhealthy habits. Over time, these factors can affect physical health. Today, I understand that psychological factors cannot explain every illness. But in some cases, they can play an important role. Addressing them early, together with proper prevention, may help change how the condition develops over time.
It was the wish to understand these processes more deeply that led me to hypnotherapy.
It began as a professional interest and was followed by numerous training programmes and further professional retraining in hypnotherapy. I gradually began applying this knowledge in my consultation practice, combining a physician's clinical reasoning with an understanding of psychological mechanisms and the possibilities of psychotherapeutic work.
The deeper I went into this field, the more clearly I saw its potential. Hypnotherapy became for me not an alternative to medicine, but a serious therapeutic tool. It can help a person explore the internal causes of persistent reactions, change habitual emotional and behavioural patterns, reduce anxiety and restore a sense of inner stability.
This is how my present approach took shape: not to divide a person into separate organs and symptoms, but to understand how everything is connected.
My work today
Today I work in Libya as part of an international medical mission at a specialized cardiac surgery centre. Clinical cardiology remains an important part of my professional life.
At the same time, I am developing a consultation practice in hypnotherapy and an integrative approach to health. I consult in person and online, working with emotional, psychosomatic and behavioural concerns, as well as conditions in which psychological processes influence physical wellbeing and quality of life.
What I believe
I believe that a person is more than a diagnosis or a list of symptoms. Every person has their own story. Similar symptoms can have different causes and can be influenced by different experiences and life circumstances.
My task is therefore not to impose a ready-made explanation or promise a universal solution. It is important to listen carefully, understand the individual situation, rule out dangerous medical causes and find together a direction that can genuinely help.
My professional path has passed through university lecture halls, cardiology departments, intensive care units, catheterisation laboratories and work in different countries. All of this has shaped the central principle of my practice:
Much in life can be changed, and much can be prevented, if we pause in time, listen to ourselves and take the first honest step towards the life we truly want to live.