Viktoriya Magid, PhD
I am a licensed Clinical Psychologist with over 20 years of experience in research, teaching, and delivering psychotherapy to adults struggling with life transitions, addictions, trauma, anxiety and mood disorders, as well as general life dissatisfaction. After leaving academia ten years ago, I have opened my private practice in a suburb of Charleston, SC. I utilize a combination of various therapeutic techniques to create a unique, client-centered approach. In addition to delivering psychotherapy to adults, couples, and families, I also deeply enjoy speaking, teaching, and writing, and deliver talks and workshops locally, nationally, and internationally, as well as guest write for local magazines and newspapers on the topics of mental health, happiness, and conscious living.
My studies and extensive practical experience with my clients as well as my own healing journey have revealed that the source of most human suffering and many mental illness is the disconnection from the natural world, community, the self, and the spirit. Modern living promotes such disconnection, beginning with isolating parents from the community and their babies at a young age. In my practice, clients are educated about the true illness of the modern society, and practices for reconnection with their inner and outer world are promoted and set in place, including but no limited to somatic work, meditation, cultivating healthy relationships and a sense of community, processing deep traumas and letting go of unhelpful learned paradigms that promote disconnection. With the help of psychedelics, my work is being taken to the new levels, and my clients enjoy the expanded states of consciousness, aiding their capacity for connection, creating a sense of love, peace, joy, and meaning.