Paul Kasyanik, PhD

Paul Kasyanik, PhD

Paul is an Advanced Certified Schema Therapist, Supervisor and Trainer in Individual, Groups and Children-Adolescents ST. He has been treating patients, training professionals and supervising psychotherapists for more than 30 years. He is the co-founder and director of the Schema Therapy Institute in St.Petersburg, Russia. He has presented advanced Schema Therapy training at EABCT and ISST Conferences and Summer Schools as well as in training programs in 15 countries Since 2014. From 2016 Paul served as Science & Research Coordinator and from 2018 till 2020 as Certification Coordinator on the Executive Board of the ISST.

He has been practicing, teaching and conducting outcome research on psychotherapy approaches relatively close to Schema therapy since 1983. My training and practice followed a similar to ST path of attempting to integrate cognitive and experiential psychotherapy. In 1992 I began collaboration with Dr. Elena Romanova, psychotherapist with a Ph.D. in developmental psychology. In “Anima”, the first official psychological centre in S-Petersburg with the medical license in psychotherapy founded by Dr. Elena Romanova, we developed various training and treatment programs for patients with behavioral and relationships problems that integrated cognitive and experiential techniques and a kind of conceptualization that was consistent with developmental theories of attachment, early psychological traumas and object relationships. In 2007 together with Dr.Elena Romanova we started to practice Group Therapy for Couples.

He also head the Psychology Department at the St-Petersburg Polytechnic University and use CBT and ST concepts in teaching students within Bachelors’ and Masters’ programs preparing educational psychologists. In 2011- 2014 I served as Deputy Dean responsible for Humanitarian Science and Research at Polytechnic University. I have free access to an international scientific library, and scientific browsers as Scopus, WoS and PubMed.