• I am an International Certified NLP Coach with New Code NLP trained by John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll.
• I am a Certified NLP Master Practitioner trained by Michael Carroll.
• I am a Trainer of NLP trained by John Grinder, Carmen Bostic St Clair and Michael Carroll.
• I am a Certified Trauma Collapse Technique Practitioner.
• I am a Certified Hypnotherapist, member of The International Medical and Dental Hypnotherapy Association (IMDHA).
• I was a practicing pharmacist for several years.
• I speak English, French and Russian fluently, and can conduct sessions in any of these languages.
• I'm the author of a book Quick Foreign Language Learning: From English to Japanese (published in Russian).
• In my free time I read books, learn languages, and practice aikido.

I learned a lot from the following geniuses:

• John Grinder - co-creator of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), author of the books Turtles all the way down and Whispering in the wind
• Richard Bandler - co-creator of NLP and one of the best hypnotists in the world, author of the books Get the life you want and Trance-formations
• John Overdurf - a highly skilled coach and co-developer of HNLP
• Stephen Gilligan - a hypnotist from California, student of Milton Erickson, author of the book Generative Trance
• Jean Becchio - a French hypnotist, author of the book Nouvelle hypnose psychodynamique
• Mike Mandel - a highly professional hypnotist from Toronto