About Maria Miroshnichenko’s Approach
Maria Miroshnichenko’s methodological approach was formed at the intersection of psychology, philosophy, aesthetics, and a deep reverence for the environment as a living participant in human life.
She is the founder of Spatially-Oriented Psychology — a discipline in which space is not seen as a passive backdrop, but as an active, psychologically meaningful structure that shapes emotional well-being, self-perception, and the development of identity.
Maria believes that our environment can either support or undermine our inner resilience. Architecture, objects, voids, and densities within a space often reflect our inner conflicts, unmet needs, aspirations, and psychological wounds. For this reason, she develops diagnostic and transformational methods that allow practitioners and clients to work with space as a projective mirror of the soul.
Her key contributions include:
– the Four-Level Model of Environmental Perception (sensory, symbolic, subjective, and existential);
– the concept of Spatial-Emotional Patterns (SEP);
– the SEER Scale (Spatial-Environmental and Emotional Regulation Assessment);
– the Integrative Client Profile Map (ICPM);
– and a number of original practices that combine somatic, visual, narrative, and art-therapeutic methods.
Although her work is primarily theoretical and research-based, Maria’s expertise is deeply relevant for those seeking not just to “redesign” their environment, but to rebuild their connection to themselves through space. She helps people recognize which forms, colors, rhythms, and atmospheres nourish them — and which subtly drain their inner strength.
By working on the level of meaning, perception, and symbolic resonance, Maria helps transform space into an internal support system — a regenerative field for recovery, growth, and emotional freedom.
People turn to her when they feel disconnected from their home or life context; when they’ve lost sensitivity or are overwhelmed by emotional and psychological overload; when they long to evolve through intentional change in both environment and inner state. Her approach is also highly valuable for psychologists, architects, designers, educators, and anyone who works with people and places.
Maria creates systems, frameworks, and practices that allow people to rediscover a sense of home — not as a building, but as a state of the soul. A place where one can simply be. A space that doesn’t demand strength, but restores it. A living environment where a new point of growth begins — with respect for oneself, for the Earth, and for the invisible threads that connect human beings to the world.
Her practices are used not only for the diagnosis and transformation of environmental perception, but also for deep psychological work with trauma, post-stress states, identity loss, migration, relocation, and the profound experience of losing — or reclaiming — one’s inner home. In each of these cases, space becomes not a source of pressure, but a partner in healing; not a trigger for anxiety, but a medium for returning to the self.
Maria’s methodology speaks to those who want not just to fine-tune their environment — but to transform the very way they inhabit the world: gently, consciously, and with a deep sense of inner freedom.