Background

I am a psychoanalytic psychotherapist working with adults in English and Russian. I am based in Da Lat, Vietnam, and work primarily online across time zones.

My background includes formal training in psychology and psychoanalytic psychotherapy, alongside academic study in languages and culture.

Portrait of psychoanalytic psychotherapist Filipp Tatarenko

Training

  • Psychoanalytic psychotherapy training: Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis (in collaboration with the Italian Institute of Micropsychoanalysis).

  • Psychology: Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Psychology.

  • Oriental Studies: Saint Petersburg State University, Faculty of Oriental Studies.

Clinical orientation and ongoing development

My work is grounded in contemporary psychoanalysis.

From 2023 to 2025 I participated in ongoing theoretical seminars and group supervision within the Pavia school tradition (contemporary post-Bionian field approaches), including groups led by Liana Fröhlich (Associate Professor, Cand. Sc.).

I continue professional development through seminars, workshops, reading groups, and supervision.

Experience

  • Private practice (since 2019).

  • Medical Center “Serotonin” (St Petersburg, Russia), Psychologist (2021–2022)

  • Teaching experience at Saint Petersburg State University.

Professional memberships

  • Associate Member Australian Psychological Society Assoc MAPS

Publications and conferences

Selected items include:

  • Predicting Vocational Personality Type from Socio-demographic Features Using Machine Learning Methods (CCRIS 2020).

  • Psychotherapy in Japan: A Western Approach in Japanese Setting (Borders, Bridges, Intersections. Olomouc, Czech Republic 2019).

Academic fellowships and study abroad

  • University of Tsukuba (Japan), Doctoral Program in International and Advanced Japanese Studies, Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences (scholarship; 2014–2015)

  • Beijing Normal University (China), College of International Education (scholarship; 2012)

  • Osaka City University (Japan), Faculty of Literature and Human Sciences (scholarship; 2010)

Copies of qualifications and selected certificates are available on request.