INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA
Transgenerational Psychology: It’s Time to Open the Door
We are researching the mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of trauma in the Ukrainian context. We are developing diagnostic and therapeutic tools. We train professionals who work in this field.
Ukraine has a unique context of layered collective trauma. This is precisely where transgenerational therapy is most needed. And this is precisely where we work
This isn’t just a theory. It’s our history.
Ukraine is a country where transgenerational trauma is not an abstract concept. The Holodomor, repression, Soviet totalitarian oppression—and now a full-scale war, which is already today imprinting new layers on the psyche of future generations.
What our ancestors experienced does not disappear with them. It is passed down—through silence, through the body, through recurring family patterns, through the way we love, fear, and respond to danger. We are researching these mechanisms. And we are training professionals to work with them.
Transgenerational trauma is a legacy of survival. The only question is whether this trauma will be a death sentence or a turning point.
Therapy, training, and webinars: three approaches to a single topic
Therapy Group
“Schema Therapy for Transgenerational Trauma”
A therapeutic group focused on working through recurring patterns—in relationships, in self-perception, and in reactions that feel overwhelming. We’ll explore patterns of behavior, inner images, familiarize ourselves with family dynamics, and reconnect with our wounded inner child.
For adults who carry burdens that didn’t originate with them.
13 sessions × 3 hours, 15,500 UAH.
Training Course
“5 stages of working with transgenerational trauma”
A program covering the theoretical foundation, diagnostic tools, and practical methods for working with the intergenerational transmission of trauma. The author’s 5-step algorithm for addressing this issue: from the first diagnostic step to reintegration, testimony, and rituals of remembrance.
For psychologists and psychotherapists who work with consequences predating the client’s own lifetime.
8 sessions × 3 hours, 13,500 UAH.
Clinical Series:
a set of webinars on various aspects of transgenerational trauma—
held on the first Saturday of every month
Transgenerational Trauma: Transmission Mechanisms and Key Concepts
Introductory webinar for the entire series. We’ll cover the basics: how transgenerational trauma differs from other types of trauma, and how it is passed down. Key figures and concepts that form the foundation of this field. Family secrets and silence—land reform, “enemies of the people,” hidden deaths and births.
For those who want to see the big picture before diving into specific topics.
September 5, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2,000 UAH
[registration]
Intergenerational Maternal Trauma: The Narcissistic and “Dead” Mother, and Perinatal Losses in Family History
The relationship with one’s mother is the first experience of what it means to be in a relationship at all. That is why maternal trauma is so powerful: it is imprinted even before words and passed on as a way of being.
A narcissistic mother, for whom the child exists as an extension of herself. A “dead” mother—present, but emotionally unreachable. Perinatal losses and their significance. The space of grief in which subsequent children grew up.
October 3, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2,000 UAH
[registration]
A Father’s Trauma Across Generations: Presence, Absence, Silence
Generations who grew up with parents who returned from the war in silence—or who never returned at all. Parents who drank and beat their children, ignored and intimidated them, raped and abandoned them. Those parents left such deep wounds that for several generations now, their children and grandchildren have been trying to become parents themselves, but don’t know how to go about it.
November 7, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2,000 UAH
[registration]
Intergenerational Financial Trauma: Theory, Sources, and Clinical Practice
How collective economic trauma—the Holodomor, the dispossession of the kulaks, the suppression of private property—shapes unconscious financial scripts. Four types of money scripts, the cult of fatalism, and the “work as suffering” narrative. Narrative financial therapy as a tool for practice.
December 5, 2026
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2,000 UAH
[registration]
Intergenerational Relationships: How Attachment Trauma Is Passed Down Through Generations
Experiences of emotional unavailability, loss, coldness, or unsafe intimacy within the family system influence our relationships today. We’ll explore how attachment trauma is passed down through generations—in partner choices, fear of intimacy, dependence on love, loneliness even when surrounded by others, and recurring patterns within a relationship.
January 9, 2027
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2,000 UAH
[registration]
Physical Trauma Across Generations: Somatization, Epigenetics, and the Body as a Vehicle of Memory
How Transgenerational Trauma Lives in the Body: Somatization, Epigenetic Mechanisms of Transmission, Bodily Memory. The experiences of ancestors—war, famine, repression—alter the biology of their descendants: gene activity, stress system responses, and threshold states.
February 6, 2027
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2,000 UAH
[registration]
Addiction Across Generations: When Alcoholism Becomes a Family Pattern
Alcoholism is rarely limited to a single generation. It takes root in a family for the long term—passing from father to son, from mother to daughter, and sometimes skipping a generation only to resurface through the grandchildren. It is an invisible division of roles that begins to take shape even before a child is born.
March 6, 2027
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2,000 UAH
[registration]
War Trauma Across Generations: How the Experience of War Is Passed Down in Military Families
Ukrainian families rarely have just one war in their history. World War II, where relatives sometimes found themselves on opposite sides; the war in Afghanistan; the ATO—each left behind unmourned grief and untold stories. Today, this experience comes alive in those who are fighting and those who are waiting: a symptom that seems familiar often turns out to have been inherited from a grandfather who never really told his story.
April 3, 2027
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
2,000 UAH
[registration]
We are open to collaboration
Corporate training: programs for psychological services, medical facilities, and military organizations. University partnerships: integration of programs into curricula. Supervision and consulting: for organizations working with trauma.
We have been working throughout the war — and we will continue to do so afterward.
Join us.
For inquiries regarding cooperation:
war.trauma.institute@gmail.com
+380 68 95 92 911
About mental health during and after the war (in Ukrainian, but you can use Telegram’s translator):