"I will listen to your whining. Expensive." Certified specialist Ilya Dabratvor offers psychological consultations

Ilya Dabratvor. Photo: Facebook

Dabratvor announced on Facebook that he is ready to take on clients. Here's how he described his potential work:

"Absolutely not a tolerant psychologist. I will listen to your whining, help you find solutions to your problems, but I will not whine with you. Not a liberal at all. Expensive, but it's worth it [...] If you don't have money, then you don't need a psychologist, you are an absolutely normal person."

Dabratvor told "Nasha Niva" that he had previously conducted private consultations, but recently focused more on political technologies – which he calls a borderline field between psychology and politics.

Now Ilya has decided to work as a psychologist publicly and try to find new clients:

"I track various psychological communities online and have long observed a crisis in terms of consultations. Most people who try to help [in this field] do not have a normal psychological education. Most so-called psychologists are people who have completed some courses; they are 'info-gypsies'."

"As a professional psychologist, it's especially painful for me to watch what those with many followers on Facebook or Instagram, who have a large audience, say. People just see them and think they are professional psychologists, but in reality, they are 'info-gypsies'."

Ilya believes that one must have a university degree in psychology to call oneself a psychologist:

"He must have a diploma stating that he is a psychologist, not a piece of paper issued by an unknown person, or a diploma bought in an underpass. But I see that most of those involved in psychology are not psychologists; they work more like charlatans or sectarians. They just read something somewhere and for some reason started working. These 'kitchen psychologists' came out to the public and for some reason started consulting other people. Some acquaintances of mine sought out psychologists, and I didn't see any positive results from that work. Yes, they took money. That, probably, is their main goal, and they are good at it."

Ilya himself has an education in the specialty "Psychologist, Psychology Teacher." He received it at the private International Humanitarian-Economic Institute; his diploma was issued in 2004. Ilya clarifies that lecturers from BSU and BSPU worked there.

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Did Dabratvor have a job in this specialty? He says yes:

"Every six months [of study], we had practical training, and this was practice in all areas where a psychologist can work – school, kindergarten, psychiatric hospital.

When talking with Poles, I noticed that Polish psychological education is head and shoulders below Belarusian. We studied psychoanalysis, gestalt therapy, and behaviorism – that is, different approaches, we studied various methods in social psychology itself. But in Poland, there is no such thing; they only study one approach approved by Europe or the European Commission, they cannot have a different opinion. And psychologists from the East are head and shoulders stronger than those who received Polish education."

Dabratvor says that after receiving his diploma, he worked at a school as a social pedagogue, then had two or three clients a year as a psychologist. According to him, this was individual work and clients he managed for many years.

His last client was last year. However, he couldn't work much with him because the person had a very complex psychological state, and Dabratvor recommended him to see a psychiatrist.

How much do psychological sessions with Dabratvor cost?

"From 200 zlotys per hour (about $55 — "NN"). This is a normal price. Cheap psychologists cost 80-100 zlotys per hour ($22-28 — "NN"), but I value my professionalism, my time, and I am not willing to work for 100 zlotys," says the taxi driver.

Ilya is ready to work with family problems, even though it's known that his own family fell apart a few years ago. Won't this affect his potential help to couples?

Dabratvor is confident that it will:

"My experience is exactly what's needed, because I already know all possible circumstances myself. And the family fell apart partly due to unprofessional psychologists and initiatives."

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