Welcome

Hello! My name is Dr. Igor Kanifolsky.

I am an MD, psychotherapist, practitioner, teacher, and researcher of psychotherapy. I live and work in Kyiv, Ukraine.

I am the founder and developer of Awareness Therapy — the first non-eclectic, integrative, and innovative potential-oriented approach to psychotherapy. It seeks to highlight the common denominator between psychotherapy and coaching, enriching them with the deepest teachings on awareness and human potential from Tibetan Buddhism (Dzogchen).

This makes it possible to resolve clients' requests faster, deeper, more ecologically, and less painfully.

Your Space of Possibilities

Awareness Therapy offers a direct path to transformation right within the session:

• Possibility of Healing (Individual Sessions): Resolving emotional pain, anxiety, and inner conflicts without excessive re-traumatization — through direct contact with your own awareness.

• Possibility of Growth (Training): Mastering the skills of deep awareness and the method of Awareness Therapy for professional therapists, coaches, and seekers of self-discovery.

• Possibility of Wisdom (Books): Exploring the theoretical and practical foundations of the approach, focusing on post-traumatic growth and unlocking human potential.

• Possibility of Self-Practice (Free AI Prompt): A free, interactive tool to guide your attention to your inquiry and support your state of presence here and now.

International Endorsement

Here is what one of the luminaries of modern psychology, Dr. Stanley Krippner, wrote about Awareness Therapy:

 

“Awareness Therapy is an approach that integrates scientific methods of humanistic-existential, transpersonal, and subjective psychology, as well as spiritual Tibetan Buddhist practices. The starting point of this therapy is helping a person to live through their experiences in the problem area and the area of development directly during the session: acceptance, understanding, and the discovery of new possibilities.

The core principles of Awareness Therapy are not ignoring a person’s empirical experience, openness toward one another, attentiveness to oneself and others, a supportive environment, beneficial motivation, and respect for one’s own experience. That is, it is also a practice of awareness — but of deeper awareness, which is not only an observer but also a creator of reality... In Awareness Therapy, mastering the skill of awareness does not require additional time — this occurs during therapeutic sessions.

When negative memories arise, they are proposed not only to be acknowledged but also to be worked through, opening the client’s potential and developing through these 'cases.' As a result, it becomes significantly easier to remain 'here and now.'”

 

Stanley Krippner, Ph.D. — Emeritus Professor at the California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS), former president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology, International Association for Dream Research, and multiple divisions of the American Psychological Association (APA), and a pioneer of transpersonal psychology.

 

Read Dr. Stanley Krippner's Full Review →

About the Author & Foundations

My background spans classical medical training at the Military Medical Academy, followed by decades of immersion in diverse fields of psychotherapy, counseling, and coaching:

• Classical hypnosis of V. M. Bekhterev and the BEST system of Ye. I. Zuev;

• NLP as taught by Marilyn Atkinson, Carl Rogers' humanistic approach, Psychoanalysis, Jungian psychology, Gestalt therapy, and Systemic Constellations;

• Coaching as pioneered by John Whitmore and Timothy Gallwey’s Inner Game.

The pinnacle of philosophical systems and spiritual practices for me is the teaching of the Great Perfection — Dzogchen — transmitted by one of the founders of Tibetan Buddhism, Guru Padmasambhava, and his modern successors: Chökyi Nyima Rinpoche, Palden Sherab Rinpoche, Tsewang Dongyal Rinpoche, Patrul Rinpoche, and others.

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I integrate this vast knowledge and practical experience into Awareness Therapy for your benefit.

My Goal

My goal is to make psychotherapy easier, deeper, more effective, and safer — and to teach this to others. To help you unlock your full potential and create the conditions for a happy, joyful, and meaningful life.

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Please feel free to contact me — I will be happy to assist you in opening your Space of Possibilities!

Live sessions are conducted in Ukrainian and Russian; written consultations, AI-guided tools, and publications are available in English.

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