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.
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.
Tetiana Stanislavska
Learn how to work with transgenerational trauma
01 / Psychotherapy of Transgenerational Trauma (practical course)
Author’s Course · 8 sessions (2 months) · For psychologists and psychotherapists
A comprehensive course covering the theoretical framework, diagnostic tools, and practical methods for working with intergenerational trauma transmission. Bowen, Bowlby, Berne, Lebovici, Abraham and Torok, Boszormenyi-Nagy: from family systems to the concepts of crypt and phantom.
June 5 – July 24, 2026
13 500 UAH
[register] (form in Ukrainian)
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02 / Financial Trauma Across Generations: Theory, Sources, Clinical Practice (webinar)
Author’s Course · 3 hours · For psychologists and psychotherapists
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)
03 / Financial Trauma Across Generations: Theory, Sources, Clinical Practice (webinar)
Author’s Course · 3 hours · For psychologists and psychotherapists
The maternal line of trauma transmission: perinatal transmission, the narcissistic mother and the concept of the “dead mother”, early object relations, mirror and container. How the mother’s experience shapes the child’s psychic space before birth and in the first years of life.
June 13, 2026
1 200 UAH
⏰10:00-13:00
[register] (form in Ukrainian)
04 / Embodied Trauma Across Generations — Somatization, Epigenetics, the Body as a Carrier of Memory
Author’s Course · For psychologists and psychotherapists
How transgenerational trauma lives in the body: somatization, epigenetic transmission mechanisms, body memory. The experience of ancestors — wars, famine, repressions — alters the biology of descendants: gene activity, stress system responses, threshold states. Body-oriented approaches in working with intergenerational trauma.
date to be confirmed
[registration]
05 / War Trauma Across Generations: How the Experience of War Is Transmitted Within Families
Author’s Course · For psychologists and psychotherapists
The specifics of transgenerational transmission of war trauma in Ukrainian families. How the unfinished business of previous wars is reproduced in the experience of current servicemembers and their families. Diagnosis and psychotherapeutic work.
Jdate 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):
