Viktoria Byczkiewicz

Dr. “Walda” Byczkiewicz identifies as a Generation-1.5 Euroamerican queer ciswoman. Before completing her PhD in clinical psychology, Dr. Walda enjoyed a career in education and linguistics, counseling, public health, and the media arts. The continuous thread underlying Dr. Walda’s endeavors is her commitment to supporting a life of dignity, equality, and liberation for all, including those from historically marginalized, stigmatized, or ruptured communities. Dr. Walda has served people from many walks of life and across the lifespan. Her clients have included international students; immigrants; folx identifying as neurodiverse; people living with AIDS/HIV+; people experiencing homelessness; and, within the LGBTQIA+ community, trans folx and their families. Dr. Walda specializes in treating intergenerational and relational trauma, intercultural issues, traumatic grief, suicide survival, and chronic pain or illness. She is passionate about supporting people experiencing psychological distress who, in the dominant Western psychiatric paradigm, might be deemed severely pathological, but from a broader perspective, can be understood to be suffering in relation to unequal power dynamics universal to the human condition. Dr. Walda’s doctoral dissertation addressed the crisis of suicide and suicidality using an archetypal framework.