INTERGENERATIONAL TRAUMA
The trauma we carry
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 imprinting new layers onto the psyche of future generations.
What our ancestors experienced does not disappear with them. It is passed on—through silence, through the body, through recurring family patterns, through how we love, fear, and react to danger. We study these mechanisms. And we train professionals to work with them.
Transgenerational trauma is a legacy of survival. The only question is whether this trauma will be a sentence—or a turning point.
Learn how to work with transgenerational trauma
01 / Psychotherapy of Transgenerational Trauma: Anatomy of Clinical Practice
Original course covers the theoretical foundations, diagnostic tools, and practical methods for working with the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Bowen, Bowlby, Berne, Lebovici, Abraham and Torok, Bozormenyi-Nagy: from family systems to the concepts of the crypt and the phantom.
June 5 – July 24, 2026
17 550 UAH
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02 / Financial Trauma Across Generations: Theory, Sources, Clinical Practice
How collective economic trauma — the Holodomor, dekulakization, the suppression of private property — shapes unconscious financial scripts. Four types of money scripts, the cult of fatalism, the narrative of “labor as suffering”. Narrative financial therapy as a clinical tool.
April 11, 2026 – Part 1.
May 2, 2026 – Part 2.
1 200 UAH
⏰ 10:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
[register] (form in Ukrainian)
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03 / The Father’s Trauma Across Generations: Presence, Absence, Silence
Generations who grew up with parents who returned from the war silent—or who never returned. 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 do it.
June 20, 2026
⏰ 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
1 200 UAH
[register] (form in Ukrainian)
04 / Intergenerational Maternal Trauma: The Narcissistic Mother, the “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, yet emotionally unreachable. Perinatal losses that were kept silent in the family, but whose absence shaped a space of grief in which subsequent children grew up.
date to be determined
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05 / The Trauma of Emotional Neglect Across Generations: Inherited Attachment Issues
Unlike active violence, emotional neglect involves the absence of what a child should have received: emotional responsiveness, validation, attunement to their feelings, and secure attachment. From a transgenerational perspective, this trauma is also passed down.
date to be confirmed
[registration]
06 / Physical Trauma Across Generations: Somatization, Epigenetics, and the Body as a Vehicle of Memory
How transgenerational trauma manifests in the body: somatization, epigenetic transmission mechanisms, and bodily memory. The experiences of ancestors—war, famine, and repression—alter the biology of their descendants: gene activity, stress responses, and threshold states.
date to be determined
[registration]
07 / Addictions Across Generations: When Alcoholism Becomes a Family Pattern
Alcoholism rarely affects just one generation. It takes root in a family for the long term—passing from father to son, from mother to daughter, sometimes skipping a generation and resurfacing through the grandchildren. It is an invisible division of roles that begins to take shape even before a child is born.
date to be confirmed
[registration]
08 / 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 opposing sides; the war in Afghanistan; the ATO—each has left behind unmourned grief and untold stories. Today, this experience comes alive in those who are fighting and in those who are waiting: a symptom that seems familiar often turns out to have been inherited from a grandfather who never told his story.
date to be determined
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09 / Intergenerational Migration Trauma: Loss of Home, Identity, and Guilt
Those who have left take more than just their belongings with them: the loss of home, a fractured identity, and a sense of guilt toward those who stayed behind. The experience of forced displacement is passed down, instilling in children a unique sense of “belonging somewhere, yet nowhere.” Sometimes this legacy manifests itself across generations, when the grandchildren of emigrants suddenly begin searching for what their grandparents were forced to leave behind.
date to be confirmed
[registration]
We’re open to collaboration!
Corporate training: programs for psychological services, medical institutions, and military organizations. University partnerships: integration of VPI programs into curricula. Supervision and counseling: 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:
warpsychotrauma@gmail.com
+380 68 95 92 911
About mental health during and after the war (in Ukrainian, but you can use Telegram’s translator):