Anya Alasheeva

I'm an IFS therapist and researcher, working with neurodivergent adults from Tbilisi. In private practice since 2014; exclusively IFS since 2019.

I used to be a petrophysicist — I loved math and rocks. At 25 I realized I loved people even more, and eventually followed that toward therapeutic pedagogy and psychotherapy. My complexity and sensitivity finally had a place.

I'm drawn to people whose inner worlds are complex — those who are sensitive to nuance, who wince at confident answers. I won't fight any of your parts or battle your "resistance." As a neurodivergent practitioner myself, I hold a neurodiversity perspective, not the medical model — and I won't psychologize what may simply be your brain's architecture.

I work with autistic and ADHD adults — often late-diagnosed, often burned out from years of masking. I'm attentive to language, to systemic discrimination, and to the fact that sometimes you need an endocrinologist before you need a therapist.

Research

My current research focuses on neurotype mismatch in cross-neurotype psychotherapy — what happens when clinician and client process the same therapeutic encounter through fundamentally different perceptual systems, and how to make that gap visible before it becomes harm.

I've developed Dyadic Neuroprofile Mapping (DNM), a structured reflexive instrument that places clinician and client on the same neurocognitive dimensions and analyzes the therapeutic encounter at the level of the dyad. Protocol on Zenodo (CC-BY).

Independent researcher, Ronin Institute for Independent Scholarship. Late-diagnosed AuDHD clinician — the positionality shapes the work.

Training

Gestalt therapy (600 hrs) · therapeutic pedagogy (1,054 hrs, Der Internationale Ausbildungskreis der Konferenz für Heilpädagogik und Sozialtherapie, Kassel) · IFS Level 1 & Level 2 (IFS Institute) · Somatic IFS (Susan McConnell). 8,000+ clinical hours.

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