Svetlana is a National Certified Counselor, psychotherapist, and a founder of Oak Leaf Counseling. She has her private practice in Evergreen, Denver, and Denver Metro Area, Colorado.

Svetlana holds two masters degrees: a Master of Arts in Counseling (Diploma with Honors) from Regis University, Denver, CO and a Master of Science in Applied Math and Computer Science (Diploma with Honors) from National University of Radio Electronics, Kharkov, Ukraine. She is a member of the ACA (American Counseling Association). She is also a member of Chi Sigma Iota (Counseling Academic and Professional Honor Society International).

Besides her academic education and degrees, Svetlana has studied in several spiritual and metaphysical schools and attended numerous trainings, seminars, and workshops. Among them are the School of Advanced Energy-Informational Development and Integrated Energy Therapy. She has numerous certifications in the area of spirituality, energy work, and energy healing.

Svetlana has also spent numerous years in profound self-education, reading, researching, and learning about various philosophical, psychological, metaphysical, and spiritual subjects. Rare was a day when she didn't have a book in her hands. She took several spiritual trips and journeys to different countries including India, Mexico, and Costa Rica. It has been a profound spiritual experience and powerful self-educational curve leading her to immense personal growth and development.

In her practice Svetlana offers multiple relaxation and spiritual techniques, including meditations, contemplations, guided imageries, and visualizations to those patients who are open to such knowledge. These techniques are very powerful and effective tools for obtaining balance and harmony, getting a deep insight, understanding, and self-awareness as well as purification of body, mind, and spirit of an individual.

Svetlana has extended experience of working with multicultural population. Her personal life experience, background, professional knowledge as well as significant knowledge of many European cultures, traditions, and history allowed her to relate better to her patients’ needs offering her services in multiple languages with an appropriate multicultural touch. She deeply respects cultural sensitivity and importance of cultural heredity with her patients.

Svetlana speaks and practices counseling/psychotherapy in English, Russian, and Ukrainian languages. All mentioned above helps Svetlana form a bond with her patients and offer a genuine, warm, and highly intuitive counseling and psychotherapy. She provides spiritual counseling, lectures, and facilitates seminars and workshops. She also teaches at her School of Light, a school of advanced spiritual growth and development.

The Oak Leaf is used a symbolic representation of counseling and therapy offered by Svetlana. Oak tree represents endurance and power. Oak is historically known for its strength, longevity, permanence, and durability.

The oak Leaf is used in the name of the company as a symbolic representation of a new growth, new sprout, new beginning similar to new changes and growth that one might achieve during therapy. The leaf symbolizes freshness and steadiness. Oak leaves have intense green color; they look strong, and durable. Some oak trees can keep their leaves throughout the entire winter.

Oak tree and oak leaves were historically used as spiritual symbols for strength and wisdom in many ancient traditions and schools as well as in Celtic and North mythology which corresponds to the spiritual dimensions of therapy offered by Svetlana.

Svetlana believes that each human life has a deep meaning and a particular purpose leading to growth and development of a human soul. In Oak Leaf Counseling, with help and guidance of a professional psychotherapist, in safe, nurturing, and soothing environment Svetlana’s patients can reach their inner recourses, explore their inner wisdom, and discover their own knowledge that will help them live their lives happier, brighter, and fuller.