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Zinaida Slobbodianiuk
Psychologist, Gestalt Therapist & Gestalt Coach
Zinaida Slobbodianiuk is a psychologist, Gestalt therapist and Gestalt coach working in private practice, with a particular focus on career transition, professional identity and adaptation after relocation. Her professional background combines psychology with more than 20 years of experience in marketing.
About Zinaida Slobbodianiuk
Having made her own transition into psychology and later relocated from Ukraine to the UK, she brings first-hand understanding of both career change and adaptation to a new professional environment. Zinaida holds a Master's degree in Psychology, recognised in the UK at Level 7, and is a Gestalt Coach within EAGT GPO.
Her mentoring perspective is particularly relevant to professionals who have real experience and qualifications but find themselves questioning their value, direction or professional identity after immigration or a significant career change. She works with the psychological barriers that can make moving forward difficult — self-doubt, loss of professional identity, and the fears and patterns that repeatedly interfere with career decisions.
Working with Zinaida can help you understand what is really keeping you stuck, rebuild your professional sense of self after relocation, and navigate a career transition with greater clarity — moving away from trying to solve everything at once towards a clear, manageable next step. She is especially suited to immigrants and internationally experienced professionals adapting to the UK, anyone considering a career change but held back by uncertainty or fear, and experienced professionals who have begun to undervalue their own background.
"Don't begin a new professional chapter by asking, 'What is wrong with me?' Start with a different question: 'What do I already have, and how can I use it in these new circumstances?'"
Key expertise
- Career Transition & Professional Identity — Supporting people through periods when an established professional identity no longer fits, or needs to be reconsidered following relocation or a career change.
- Immigration & Adaptation — Working with the psychological challenges that can accompany relocation, including uncertainty, loss of familiar reference points and the need to establish new internal and professional foundations.
- Self-Worth & Professional Confidence — Exploring self-doubt, self-devaluation and the difficulty of recognising the value of previous experience when entering a new environment.
- Psychological Barriers to Career Change — Identifying fears, beliefs and recurring behavioural patterns that may be preventing a person from taking their next professional step.
- Self-Awareness & Archetypes — Using work with archetypes to explore strengths, internal roles and behavioural patterns, helping people develop a deeper understanding of themselves during periods of change.
How Zinaida Slobbodianiuk can help
- Understand what is really keeping you stuck — Distinguish practical external challenges from fear, anxiety, self-doubt or loss of professional identity.
- Rebuild your professional sense of self after relocation — Recognise the experience, capabilities and strengths that may have become less visible to you in a new country.
- Navigate a career transition with greater clarity — Explore what you genuinely want from your next professional chapter rather than making decisions solely in response to external expectations.
- Identify psychological barriers to action — Recognise patterns, beliefs or fears that repeatedly interfere with career decisions and progress.
- Develop deeper self-awareness — Explore your strengths, internal roles and recurring patterns, including through archetypal work.
- Define your next realistic step — Move away from trying to solve an entire career transition at once and identify a clear, manageable direction forward.
Who should book Zinaida Slobbodianiuk
- An immigrant or internationally experienced professional adapting to the UK and finding that your previous professional confidence has been disrupted by relocation.
- Considering a career change but struggling with uncertainty, fear or the feeling that you are "starting again".
- An experienced professional who has begun to undervalue their own background despite having meaningful skills, education and previous achievements.
- Experiencing a professional identity crisis and unsure what you genuinely want from the next stage of your career.
- Looking for more than tactical career advice and wanting to understand the psychological patterns influencing your professional decisions.
Why Zinaida Slobbodianiuk
- Psychology + real career transition — Zinaida combines professional psychological training with first-hand experience of moving from a long-standing career in marketing into psychology.
- First-hand immigration experience — Having relocated from Ukraine to the UK herself, she understands the process of adapting to a new environment while continuing to develop a professional path.
- A multidisciplinary perspective — Her background combines a Master's degree in Psychology, Gestalt therapy and coaching with more than 15 years of marketing experience — bringing together psychological insight, professional identity and self-positioning.