Executive Coach &  psychologist for high-stakes achievers

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My mission is more than just helping you navigate a crisis

Nice to meet you

that what feels like an end can often be a beginning.

I am a counseling psychologist and coach.

I create a space where you can pause, breathe, and look honestly at what is happening - without pressure, and without templates. Always with respect for your unique path and your own pace.

I create a space where you can pause, breathe, and look honestly at what is happening - without pressure, and without templates. Always with respect for your unique path and your own pace.

I specialize in guiding you through processes where high complexity is the norm.

У меня за плечами — опыт глобального бизнеса, психологическое образование, своя эмиграция, большие команды и большие личные трансформации.
Я не пугаюсь боли, не отворачиваюсь от напряжения, не предлагаю универсальных решений. Я умею быть рядом, когда всё шатко. Потому что знаю:

My background is built on global business experience, a formal education in psychology, my own journey of emigration, leading large teams, many years of experience as a psychotherapist and navigating significant personal transformations.
I don’t shy away from pain, I don’t turn away from tension, and I don’t offer "one-size-fits-all" solutions.
I know how to stand by you when everything feels shaky. Because I know

I work with entrepreneurs and executives navigating a turning point - whether within themselves, their business, or their relationship with the world. If you are reading this, you might be at that exact threshold: where the stakes are high, but the path forward is blurred. It’s that moment when everything looks stable from the outside, but inside there is tension, exhaustion, or the weight of a critical decision.

The courage to tell yourself the truth.
The courage to understand what you truly want.
The courage to make a choice. To move through crises.
And to keep going not because you have to but because you can.

How I work

I am not intimidated by scale. Neither by your challenges, nor your feelings, nor your budgets. I don’t need to be told what P&L, KPI, business accountability, or complex partner relationships are. I work with those who carry a heavy load and yet are tired of being pushed to their limit.

I don't give advice on "the right way." Instead I create a space where you can catch your breath, see clearly, and make a choice that is truly yours.

My clients are strong and mature individuals. They lead teams, launch products, and take responsibility for their decisions. And yet they return to a sense of self, rebuild their inner foundation, and find clarity where before there was only anxiety.

Working with high-complexity challenges

I don't shy away from big money, big decisions, or big fears

I don’t need interpretation. I’m already in context

I look at business from the inside, not the outside: as a consultant and as someone who has built their own

I think strategically, maintaining depth while keeping the pace

I believe that harmony is possible even where there is tension now

If beauty in decisions, interaction with people, and perception of the world is important to you -I will support you in this search.

WAYS TO WORK TOGETHER

Not all crises are equally beneficial. But you can emerge from each one slightly stronger if there is someone nearby who understands. We will choose the format together.

Mentorship

Format: Online (Zoom) or in person by agreement

Duration: minimum package (4 weeks consulting with 1 weekly session+  2 weeks post messaging support)

Fee: from 3000 $

We will meet regularly to check in, analyze situations, and build new strategies. This is work at a pace that suits you personally.
There is room here for both brainstorming and breathing space. We will build a foundation, untangle the complex, see the perspective, and make it achievable.

This is support where you don’t have to "keep up appearances." Only you — exactly as you are. And everything that is happening with you.

Package of 5 sessions

Format: Online (Zoom) or in person by agreement

Duration: 5 sessions of 60 minutes each

Package investment: $ 1500

Over several meetings we will be able to identify patterns, restructure scenarios, and choose new behaviors. You will begin to make decisions faster, delegate with more confidence and build relationships more easily — with partners, your team, and yourself.

This is support with a horizon. For when it’s not just "hard right now," but you want to reach a new level and not do it alone.

Consultation

Format: Online (Zoom) or in person by agreement

Duration: 60 minutes

Consultation fee: $ 450

Sometimes one meeting is enough to feel your footing again. A consultation is suitable if you are at a point of tension and don’t know where to move next. When a decision needs to be made but your mind is noisy. When operations pull you under, relationships stall, and motivation is gone — yet action is required. In one hour we will build clarity, set priorities, and find a solution that can be implemented immediately. No long-term contract, no obligations — just support in the moment when it’s especially important for someone to hold the space.

And all these conversations are vital for the results you want to achieve

With me, people talk about millions, about dead ends, about people they "cannot afford to quarrel with," and about delegation that the future depends on. They also talk about sleepless nights, loneliness and exhaustion from the role.

Corporate Projects

Format: Online (Zoom) or in person by agreement

Duration: By agreement

Fee: By agreement

If you are an owner, HR Director, or partner in a company and you see that the team needs support, clarity, or a new stage of development - let's talk.

I work with executives, managers, and teams who need to learn to negotiate, move together and sustain growth.

The format can vary from one-on-one sessions to strategy for the entire team. Everything is discussed individually. Mainly, we definitely won’t waste time on the obvious or the formal.

Negotiation preparation

Format: Online (Zoom) or in person by agreement

Duration: By agreement

Fee: By agreement

Sometimes the price of one meeting is several million. Sometimes your peace of mind or your future is at stake. If an important conversation is ahead regarding partnership, exiting a company, or distribution of powers — it is worth seeing the map in advance. Predict where the sharp corners will be, understand where you are vulnerable and where you are strong.

In this session we map out arguments, build a line of behavior, and identify points of pressure and support. This is not about manipulation but about honest strength. So that you enter negotiations not with anxiety but with confidence — in yourself and your position.

Strategic session for owners

Format: Online (Zoom) or in person by agreement

Duration: 120−150 minutes

Fee: from 1250 $

Sometimes you don’t need a coach, a psychologist, or a business consultant but a person with whom you can think out loud, untangle the complex and reach clarity.

In a strategic session we talk about the future. About a business that has grown faster than the team. About decisions that have been brewing for a long time but require internal consent. About growth that is no longer possible alone.

You come with your challenges — I come with my questions.
Together we assemble what wouldn’t fit before. This is a conversation after which  as a rule you know what to do and find the energy for what previously felt impossible.

If you are not looking for pretty words. If you come to see what is actually happening. Then I am here and I know how to hold this space. Because real change begins with an honest conversation.

Reviews

You can stroke a client’s head for a long time and the solution will stretch for a couple of months or you can painfully but lovingly point them to the root of the problem.

During our therapy:
·   I exited and moved on from a non-resourceful relationship
·   I shone a light on my parts and acknowledged them: here is my 'Soft and Vulnerable Anya,' and here is 'Anya the Protector' who won’t be bullied and will bully back if needed! And here is 'Anxious Anya,' and this is 'Anya who needs recognition'. And all my parts gained the right to exist and began to manifest.
·   I explored myself in relationships with men. I even had experience participating in a live dating club.

·   I found the relationship I dreamed of and this year I am getting married.

I came to Marina in July 2021. Broken: on the verge of a breakup in a relationship that drained all my strength. And in my professional life with accumulated anger inside and helplessness in many matters. I remember it clearly. I wrote and asked to move the first session from July 5th to July 12th because I was suddenly leaving for a detox in Crimea and I definitely wasn’t in the mood for a 'brain rewire'. And immediately received the answer: …Life is such that there will always be something to make you postpone…"
And I was like: Oh come on! What you gotta be like that?!"

And then came July 11th. Tomorrow is the first session. I realize I need to come with a request. But my head was like a tumbleweed. And here was our first meeting. And for about 40 minutes out of 60, I just sobbed from helplessness and powerlessness. What followed was therapy lasting almost 2 years. It was painful. I even had my own rubric called 'Unpleasant Marina'.

Marina, hi!

I am very grateful to you for the session and for this experience. You shook me up and brought me to my senses. Self-pity is gone. And even before the meeting, I was sure you were the person who would manage to help me even in 15 minutes. I’m lucky to know you!

I will definitely (if you are open) recommend you to women entrepreneurs and managers who are in great need of your help.

Marina, hi! I have news! I’m moving to another department to a cool new product at the launch stage, reporting directly to the GM with lots of communication with the global team. They just announced my appointment.

Our work played a significant role! The fact that I accepted and let go of the situation with my manager, started looking for development opportunities myself, gained a lot of energy relying on my 'leading' teenager and built my visibility through projects, if I may say so. Now I speak at all town halls and am generally a star not only at the country level but internationally!

Yesterday I caught a thought that I am surrounded by incredibly cool and magical women! And I am grateful to you that you are one of them!!! And immensely grateful for our work!

Marina 'opened' me up in 20 minutes with just a couple of questions. The expected 'being scared' didn’t happen. My head simply didn’t have time to turn on defense mechanisms.
So I wailed.

How? What is this magic of words and their phrasing?

It was hard. In the process. And now it’s good. You know like after voicing out loud what was inside but remained unsaid. Thank you! I’m going to go cry some more.

Perhaps you also need to work through something inside, to open it up, but it doesn’t work without a guide. Write to Marina! She’s great, she will guide you.

And I also want to say something to my mom: you’re cool! You’re so great! Truly: mom, you’re a big hero and an incredible badass! Love you very much!

I chose you by recommendation, and at the first introductory meeting, I liked the specifics. The approach you explained: restructuring a built-in behavior/psychic model. I stayed because exactly this approach worked for me… Every session had a request, work, a model, and a result.

When I felt there were no requests at that moment, I could stop and return when I felt the need again… the work on analysis and restructuring behavior patterns gives a very visible and, in my view, fast result. This suited me much better than psychotherapy with a regularity of 1−2 times a week for three years.

It helps me so much that you exist and that I met you.

I try to be careful not to project onto you or idealize you, to remember that you are a person too but today I thought that I never had an example of a woman.

The kind I want to see myself as specifically an adult.

And when I found you: you have this youthful, completely alive energy, and mature adulthood, and the 'elephant' strength, and what you do…

All of this resonated so much and gave me hope that it can actually be like this.

During these six months, you helped me build an inner foundation. One that wasn’t there before. You never imposed solutions but always guided very accurately and sensitively. I felt support but at the same time I learned to rely on myself, and that was the key change.

Thanks to our work I was able to close important deals, improve relationships with my parents and build communication with my husband differently. The constant anxiety I lived with for years is gone. I stopped winding myself up and reliving situations a hundred times. I began to take things more lightly, understand myself more deeply and approach nutrition and sleep more consciously.

But most importantly, I felt happy and I have more like-minded people around me. Every inner step seemed to change the outer world as well.

Thank you for your work, for your attention, for your precision, for your support, and for being there during such an important period for me.

Corporate clients

Потому что поддержка это не слабость.
Это сила, которая возвращает к себе

I don’t work with roles. I see you with the exhaustion, the doubts, the pain. And it is to the person I see in you that I give support.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

I hold a degree from Moscow State University (MSU), additional business education and experience working with global-scale projects. I am constantly learning and every skill I acquire is not just a checkbox but part of the system I create for my clients.

Blog

I believe that behind every achievement stands not only effort but love.

Love for oneself, for one’s business, for the people nearby. It is this love that gives the very stability that cannot be assembled from checklists or KPIs.

This is the beginning of the journey.

Everyone wants success, but even more, they want to be happy.