A centre for psychosocial counselling
a club for psychology, health and growth
Freud's Legacy
a new and exclusive project of our own
20+ online meetings a month
psychology, nutrition and yoga
yours for 25 euros a month
The club
The club for psychology, health and growth ‘Freud's Legacy’ brings together specialists from several fields (psychosocial counselling, health, nutrition, sport) who run online meetings for club members. And one thing matters a great deal: we work under an Austrian Gewerbeberechtigung für Lebens- und Sozialberatung (psychosocial counselling) — and that is already a mark of quality!
Here is what you get:
- support, reliable information and answers to your questions;
- direct contact with our specialists;
- a group of like-minded people to lean on;
- practical knowledge.
The centre offers a simple format that is open to everyone. Much like a gym, you buy a membership (for a week, for two, or for a month). Membership entitles you to attend any online meeting our specialists hold. The number of visits is not limited. You can take part in club meetings every single day!
The meetings are group video conferences on Zoom, which the facilitators and the participants join at the agreed time. The date, the time and the link are in the calendar.
Every meeting has a topic — and the topic follows your own questions!
What does a club meeting look like?
The conversation our facilitators create is relaxed and friendly. You choose the way of taking part that feels comfortable to you:
- video on and taking an active part in the conversation
- video off and simply listening in
- talking to the facilitator and joining the conversation
Nobody pushes you to speak if you are not ready for it, and nobody asks you to have your say. At the centre you can leave a meeting at any time if you wish.
A group session at the centre can have a theoretical part and a practical one: exercises, meditations, personality tests. Everyone at the meeting can ask questions about the topic and ask for an opinion. This is not a therapy group. At the centre we talk live and with feedback: you get the professional view of the facilitator and the moral support of the group.
The topics of our meetings grow out of what the community asks for. If something has been left unclear or new questions have come up, we can arrange another meeting on the same topic or a related one.
What can you bring to ‘Freud's Legacy’?
At our online centre you get guidance and support in all sorts of situations:
Self-knowledge
- Finding and getting to know yourself. Personal development
- Self-confidence. Holding your personal boundaries
- The thinking and beliefs of successful people
- The secrets of composure. Looking for resources.
- Anxieties, phobias, panic attacks, low moods
- Old hurts. Life script and destiny.
Children. From 0 to 18.
- Motherhood. Preparing for the birth. Burnout
- Translating children's reactions into the language of parents
- Living with a teenager and staying in touch with them
- How do I support my child's development?
- Praise, criticism, building self-esteem — how?
- Independence and envy. The Oedipus complex.
Career
- Rhetoric, negotiation, sales
- Against mobbing and trolling
- Skills: time and money, business, autogenic training
- Job interviews. Manipulation. Suggestion
- Goals, making yourself visible
- Speaking well, cutting the filler words, getting to the point
Relationships
- How do I find the right partner?
- Men and women, conflicts in a relationship
- Co-dependency and partnership on equal terms
- Meeting someone and the first date
- What is love? The languages of love
- The finer points of sexuality
Health and the body
- Losing weight — and what really gets in the way
- Psychosomatics. Finding your way back to yourself
- Su Jok therapy. Qigong
- Exercise for the lazy
- Exercise for women
- Support through a long illness
Science and society
- Profiling. Personality types. Individuality
- Age crises. Developmental tasks
- The structure of personality. Strokes. Trauma
- Defense mechanisms. Emotions
- Millennials. Generations. Gender roles
- How society acts on us.
How do I sign up for an online group meeting?
The online sessions at the club take place daily and last an hour or more. Our website, which describes the centre, has the calendar of group meetings. To take part, open the page of the meeting and confirm your attendance with the ‘I am coming’ button. That is how you reserve your place in the group. At the centre you choose the topic that interests you, or set it yourself. That is how our club helps you sort out exactly your own question.
A word from Dimitri
The club is the most convenient, the safest and the most effective format for working through your life questions
Over the last five years we experimented a great deal, looking for a counselling format that would really help people
- Safely choose a counsellor for yourself
- Be convenient in time and place
- Be affordable — counselling takes time, after all
We have run more than 150 live group meetings, gone on air more than 100 times with broadcasts on psychological topics, and finally found and built the space of the centre you are in right now.
Is counselling expensive, slow and useless?
Do you think so too? Quite right — that is often exactly how it is. Which is why, to change the situation, we built something better: the club.
Expensive
Counselling and psychotherapy are very expensive. Yes. One online session costs between 10 and 100 euros. And one is usually not enough: proper work takes a series of sessions. So in a month you can easily spend 200–300 euros. That is a lot of money — which is why at the centre we give you something comparable for 25 euros a month.
Given that in a month you can attend more than 30 meetings at the club, a single session ends up costing about as much as a cup of coffee. Simply by coming to the group sessions at the centre you take a step towards changing your life for the better.
Slow
Counselling takes a long time. That is true as well: your attitudes have been forming over decades. So if you want to change yourself, it takes months, sometimes years — at least if you go to a session once a week.
At the ‘Freud's Legacy’ centre you will get to your answer considerably faster. Our online meetings run seven days a week at convenient times. And you can set the topic yourself.
Useless
Someone who is inexperienced and has not been through their own personal development work may project their own problems and hang-ups onto you. Finding a counsellor who has worked on themselves is not easy. That is why at our counselling centre we have given you the chance to put the person in front of you to the test. How does that work?
As a member with access to the centre, you can attend any meeting. Even if the topic is not quite yours, you can join, watch the facilitator work in a comfortable setting, ask questions and even provoke a little. And because the meetings at the centre are held in a group, you will see from the outside how they work with other people. If the facilitator has given you a sense of safety, you have certainly found someone you can trust.
Top 3 in our training programme
the most popular courses in our training programme. The S-Theory behind them is an author's school of thought, not a clinical method, and a test result is not a diagnosis
Profiling course — learning to read people
Learn with us to recognise personality types and to see the hidden motives, fears and wishes that people often do not suspect in themselves. That is what quiet influence really is)
Do a man and a woman fit together?
Find out your personality type with us and find the partner who fits you — for a relationship that is harmonious, simple, sound and light
Hatha yoga classes
Asana: working with the body. Pranayama: working with emotions and the mind through the breath. Dhyana: working with the subconscious through meditation and concentration.
Common misconceptions
Let us clear them up together!
Psychology is for ‘nutters’?
Psychiatry treats seriously ill people with a psychosis. That is the job of doctors in hospitals: they prescribe medication to stabilise the person's emotional state and refer them on to psychotherapy.
Psychotherapy accompanies people who have partly lost their connection with reality. But most people are simply ‘neurotic’. On the outside everything looks fine, inside they feel uneasy. They cope with life perfectly well; what they lack is the skills, the habits and the steady emotional footing to reach their goals. These are the people who come to the centre as members — people like me, and perhaps like you.
Our centre for the health of body and soul supports healthy people in changing their lives for the better and reaching what they have set out to do.
Counsellors are not interested in their clients' problems
It is said that counsellors deliberately keep their distance and that their clients' problems do not really interest them. That may be partly true of lone operators — but not of our centre
We put together groups in which you get support from people who are close to you in spirit.
Having met at the online meetings, fellow members of the centre become friends, see each other and some of them even find a relationship here.
Talking in the community does more than bring people closer. It shows in practice how varied personality types are, it lets you rehearse life situations at the centre in a safe setting, and it gives you support that does not come from the facilitator alone. Do join us!
The whole-person approach of our centre
Viktor Frankl, the Austrian psychiatrist who survived a concentration camp during the Second World War, reminded us that a human being is more than the sum of their parts.
Every school of psychology looks at the human being from its own side. That is why we brought together specialists of different schools and different personality types into one centre. You get a programme that combines several points of view — so that you can become whole.
Welcome to the treasury of knowledge
Every week at the centre we open up the depths of the psyche to give you recipes for a calm, dependable, steady and harmonious life — in love, in your career and in your own development. That is our way of supporting you with knowledge)
What our members say
There are too many of them, and they are far too long, to gather in one place. But we will try to bring together in one place the voices of those who came to us at the centre for health and growth.
I want to write down my impressions of taking part in the group. I came with a question that was troubling me a great deal. And within a month, thanks to the professionals of the ‘Freud's Legacy’ team, I found the answer to it. Accepting some sides of yourself is hard at times, but it is worth it.
... the whole team is very professional and works as one. Thank you for helping people find the way back to themselves!
Thank you all so very much! To every specialist at the ‘Freud's Legacy’ club. One thing I can say for certain — the meetings work!!! For everyone in their own way :) Every specialist leaves their own ‘mark’ on your soul :) I am not happy yet, but content — that is for sure :)))
Natallia, I wanted to say a big thank you for working through my question... It was really just what I needed...
My mood is wonderfully even, I am losing weight all by itself, I have lots of energy. I have come to take the whole situation completely calmly — not ‘through myself’ any more, but at a distance from myself. Thank you!!)))
I want to tell you my story of change. Did I want to change while I was daddy's girl and lived with my parents until I was 26? No! Things only started moving after a bad conflict. ... And I decided: it was time to get some support.
I am sure it was no accident that I ended up at the Freud's Legacy club. Mikhail explained to me that at a certain moment I neither hit out nor ran — I froze.... A great deal came up that I had not understood. And two days later something unexpected happens: my daughter goes into anaphylactic shock ... She was brought back. And with her, I came alive again! I realised that I have to work on myself, that my daughter mirrors me. Then came a session with Natallia...
Five months have passed. I am healthy now. And my daughter's chronic diagnosis has been lifted completely.
I did not put my confessions here for nothing! What I want is for people to stop treating psychosomatics as a fairy tale. And to understand that everything depends on them. I am carrying on working on myself. And at last I have grown up!
Natallia, good afternoon! Exactly a month has passed since our one-to-one session, and I want to give you some feedback. First, I have seen and understood the reason. And I have understood that I exist! Deep down I had the feeling that my parents had not wanted me, that I had come into this world by accident! No, no and no again! Not by accident! I exist, I am wanted, everything is for the good. Second, I have understood that I no longer have to prove anything. To anyone, ever. My people are always with me. And I will no longer beg for love from those who are not able to give it to me. I have people who are close to me. I have myself. An inner footing has appeared. I have stopped smothering the people I love with care — I did often smother them with my love. It mattered to me that I was needed. And I am needed and I matter even without controlling everything.
Thank you, Mikhail Borisovich, for the work you have done on me. For many years I suffered with pain in my back and my neck; scoliosis and a stoop since childhood. I went to all sorts of specialists — a rheumatologist, an osteopath and other manual therapists — with no effect at all. Six months ago I came to Mikhail Grishchenko and we began the road to correction and recovery. My case was far gone, but Mikhail is the best specialist I know: he restored my spine, my posture and my mood, and freed me from the pain. I recommend him to acquaintances, to friends and to everyone who wants to lift their well-being, their health and their mood to a completely new, high level. Why do I bring up ‘mood’? It is quite simple. When you are stooped and crooked, your body produces stress hormones. In the end your mood is permanently low and negative, and life loses its meaning (I have been through it myself). The other way round: when your back and your posture are straight, the body sends the brain completely different signals, releases dopamine into the blood and our mood only gets better and better, and the low spirits go away. It is wonderful when nothing hurts and your mood is high. Take care of yourselves, people. Mikhail Grishchenko is a level-80 manual therapist.
Professional support you can verify
In many countries there is no legislation regulating the work of counsellors and counselling centres. Anyone who has taken some course may call themselves a counsellor or a coach. No wonder that in a situation like this it is hard to find a qualified specialist and to trust them.
In Austria, by contrast, psychosocial counselling is a state-regulated trade: Lebens- und Sozialberatung. To obtain the Gewerbeberechtigung you complete more than a thousand hours of training, at least a hundred documented counselling sessions under supervision and your own Selbsterfahrung (personal development work) — and you pass the state Befähigungsprüfung before the Chamber of Commerce.
The ‘Freud's Legacy’ centre works under a valid Austrian Gewerbeberechtigung für Lebens- und Sozialberatung. That is the best evidence that the support you get at our centre rests on real qualifications.
Our team
We are a community of specialists holding an Austrian Gewerbeberechtigung. At our centre we bring together people and knowledge, professionals and enthusiasts, ideas and methods, so that everyone can find their own way to be happier and an answer for their own situation in life
Dimitri Korenev
Austrian Gewerbeberechtigung für Lebens- und Sozialberatung. Founder of the centre and of the club
Guest specialists at our centre
Our centre's experts in typing by the S-Theory — an author's school of thought, not a clinical method — determine your personality type and the partner who is compatible with you in the project M.O.S.T., our dating club for harmonious relationships. And body therapists working in the field of health
Marina Ananko
Counsellor; works with the personality portrait based on the S-Theory.
Questions and answers
The mission of the club
The people who lead and run the ‘Freud's Legacy’ centre share one mission: health should be within everyone's reach!
The club gives you the room to develop your inner life, your body and your mind. To start moving forward with the help of our centre, you first have to let go of unhelpful attitudes, blocks, destructive thoughts, old hurts and anxieties. Because it is impossible to
- lose weight if putting it on is the defensive reaction of a wounded psyche;
- climb the career ladder while fears and self-doubt are still in the way; build a harmonious relationship without knowing anything about the psychology of relationships;
- stay healthy without understanding how psychosomatics works.
The specialists of our centre help you make sense of these questions and many others.
What the centre has over other formats
Since you are not buying a single visit but a membership with access to the centre, you belong. The same people meet again and again, and step by step strangers turn into a group that carries you, a team of like-minded people you want to come back to.
This form of taking part is a good chance not only to learn something new and get a view from outside, but also to experience mutual support. Here at the centre you will feel that you are not alone and that the people around you go through similar states.
The online format of the centre lets you talk with the whole world. People from the most different corners of the planet come together to stand by each other and share their experience.
Even though a meeting takes place in a group, at the centre you will feel that each person is seen individually.
What taking part in the centre costs
A month's club membership at our centre costs 25 euros. It includes the daily online group meetings with our facilitators: more than 30 a month. Individual sessions with the specialists of the centre are booked separately. You can buy a single session or a series.
How do I choose the right counsellor at the centre?
It is said to be very hard to find the person who is right for you. It is unclear what criteria to use to judge professional competence, and how far you will be able to open up and trust that person. But not at our centre!
The format of open group meetings our centre works in gives you the chance to see a specialist at work. By coming to the group meetings at the club you will get to know our specialists better, see how they work, and be able to choose the one who is closest to you in spirit.
