Psychologist · psychotherapist · supervisor
Diana Ginova
More than fourteen years of private psychotherapy practice. Founder of Integria.
How Diana works
In her individual practice Diana works body-orientedly — attending both to what a person thinks and recounts, and to the way the experience shows itself in the body.
Depending on the theme and the therapeutic process, the work may involve conversation, following bodily sensations and responses, movement, work with boundaries and resources, and other body-oriented interventions.
The method is not applied in the same way to everyone. How the work goes is determined by the particular process and agreed with the client.
Mind and body
Psychotherapeutic work is not always confined to conversation. Emotional states also show themselves bodily — through tension, changes in breathing, movement, posture, an impulse to act or to withdraw.
In body psychotherapy these responses can be part of the enquiry alongside thoughts, feelings, relationships and life history.
Areas of work
Individual body psychotherapy
The main part of Diana's practice is individual psychotherapeutic work with adults, in which conversation and bodily experience can serve as different ways into the therapeutic process.
Bodynamic and the ego functions
In the Bodynamic approach, development is also viewed through a set of psychological functions concerned with contact, boundaries, autonomy, positioning, mutuality and the capacity to act.
Work with the ego functions can be used to explore areas where a person has well-developed resources, and areas where certain responses or patterns create difficulty.
Shock trauma and the aftermath of severely threatening experience
Diana has specialised training in working with shock trauma and post-traumatic stress. In this work the priorities are stabilisation and the person's capacity to stay in contact with what is happening, without the process being forced.
Burnout and chronic overload
Work with prolonged overload, depletion, the loss of the capacity to recover, and patterns in which a person systematically overrides their own limits.
Burnout and chronic overload →
Reorienting Birth — work with early bodily and relational patterns
Reorienting Birth is a specialised body-oriented approach within which patterns can be explored that the method associates with very early experience around the prenatal period, birth, and the time immediately after it.
The work does not assume that a present psychological difficulty can simply be explained by the manner of someone's birth. This is one possible perspective within a particular therapeutic method.
Bodynamic Bodymap
The Bodymap is an instrument from the Bodynamic system, used to examine patterns of bodily response and muscular reaction in the context of psychological development and the therapeutic work.
Work with fascia
In certain processes Diana also includes bodily work directed at the sense of tension, movement and restriction in the soft tissue and fascial structures. This work is used within the wider therapeutic process and is not a medical or physiotherapeutic treatment.
Working with the body, and consent
Body psychotherapy does not necessarily mean physical contact. Where an intervention involving touch is offered, it is explained beforehand and used only with the client's consent.
The client can decline or stop a particular bodily intervention at any time.
Group work
Diana also leads psychotherapy groups and specialised group formats. The particular groups, the conditions for taking part and any prior requirements are published separately.
Supervision for psychotherapists
Diana offers individual and group supervision for psychotherapists. The work can take in particular cases, the therapeutic process, the therapist–client relationship and the therapist's own position in the work.
Supervision is a professional space in which a therapist examines their own work alongside a more experienced colleague. Its purpose is not assessment or control but the development of professional skill, a deeper understanding of the process and the upkeep of the quality of the work. Regular supervision is an essential part of responsible and ethical practice.
Education and professional training
Academic education
- BA in Psychology
- MA in Psychological Counselling
Psychotherapy training
- Neo-Reichian analytic psychotherapy — Institute of Body Psychotherapy
- Bodynamic International — body psychotherapy
Supervisory qualification
- Supervisor training — Bodynamic International
Specialised training
- Shock Trauma and PTSD Training — Bodynamic International
- Reorienting Birth for Professionals — Bodynamic International
- Bodynamic Bodymap — Bodynamic International
- Contemporary Reichian analysis — four-year Master Class with Prof. Genovino Ferri
Personal therapy and supervision
Diana has been in personal therapy and under supervision. Some of her cases continue to be supervised, as the professional frame requires.
Working with Diana
- Individual session
- 50 minutesusually weekly, on a fixed day and time
- Price
- €60VAT included
- Where
- Sofia, Manastirski livadiin person, at the centre
- Groups and supervision
- By current programmeconditions are published for each group separately
Integria is not a medical facility. We do not diagnose and do not prescribe medication. Psychotherapy can run alongside treatment by a psychiatrist or another doctor.