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Elena Chopin Elena Chopin is an expert in coaching and psychology. She has formulated a unique coaching method - Forthrightvision that has proven to be fast and effective for individual clients and companies. In her work, she does not solely rely on the well trodden path of traditional coaching and counselling, but utilizes uniquely adapted methods deriving from diverse disciplines: schools of psychology, Buddhist philosophy, energy work and mind training techniques. These methods help in acquiring an awareness of what blocks or enhances a person's success. To put it in a nut shell, she helps people to be where they need to be and who they want to be by removing entrenched psychological obstacles, while giving them the mind tools needed for success. Elena Chopin holds a Masters degree in Psychology (1993). She also has twenty years professional experience in the public and private sector. Her early professional career was a combination of coaching/counselling with teaching/training. For ten years she was a lecturer of Psychology at three different European universities, while also running a crisis intervention centre and working privately as a coach and psychologist. At present, Elena Chopin works as an executive coach with organizations, providing individual coaching, team facilitation and work-shops (www.forthrightvision.com). She also works with individual clients - expatriates who need psychological help or life / career coaching. Within this environment, her keen awareness of cultural diversity and her ability to work in several languages has been of the utmost importance. Elena Chopin works in English, Italian, Russian and French. She also works as an international consultant and trainer in post-war and post-conflict areas. In 2010 - 2011, in collaboration with War Trauma Foundation, she gave series of work-shops to psychologists and teachers from Chechen Republic, Ingushetia and North Osetia - Alania.