VOLUNTEERING
Volunteering as a clinical role
Direct psychological support for those who need it right now: service members, veterans, and those who have lost loved ones.
For us, this isn’t just a side project alongside our main work—it’s a way to stay connected to reality: to people, their pain, their creativity, and their healing. Some things simply don’t fit into the framework of paid services. That’s why we just do them
Where service ends, presence begins
Sitting with a veteran in a hospital room, spending time with an artist who has returned from the front lines, listening to someone who has lost a loved one and doesn’t yet know how to cope—these are experiences that no program or protocol can replace.
Since 2024, our volunteers have been working at the Pavlov Psychiatric Hospital. They support active-duty military personnel—the artists of the “Cultural Assault”—who continue to create despite everything. They record psychotherapeutic interviews with people going through grief, loss, and recovery.
This work exists not because there is funding, but because there is a need for it.
Being there is a form of therapy in itself. Sometimes the most important thing you can do is simply be there. No formalities. No sessions. No strings attached.
Our volunteer projects
01 / Art Therapy for Veterans
Pavlov Psychiatric Hospital, Kyiv · 18 months
Regular group and individual art therapy sessions in the military ward. Creativity as a tool for recovery—for those who have not yet found their voice. The participants’ works are exhibited in Ukraine and abroad.
02 / Psychological Support for the “Cultural Brigade”
Support · Supporting those who support others
Psychological support for artists and cultural figures who continue to work amid the war. Those who empower others through art also need support.
03 / Psychotherapeutic interviews
Documenting Experiences · Face-to-Face Contact · Conversational Therapy
In-depth conversations with people who are navigating loss, grief, and recovery. This isn’t journalism—it’s a therapeutic format that provides a space for expressing what’s hard to say out loud.
Get involved in volunteer work
If you’re a psychologist, art therapist, or event organizer and would like to work with us, please get in touch. If you’re an organization or foundation and would like to support our volunteer projects, we’d love to talk.
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):