English teacher & early-childhood language specialist · Speech therapist by training · Based in Dubai
Two Ukrainian Specialist diplomas and two British teaching qualifications. Both British ones were awarded with Distinction.
Specialist Diploma · Kyiv · June 2015
Primary education: primary-school teacher and primary-school English teacher. This is the academic base — pedagogy, child development and teaching methodology for the 6–10 age group.
Specialist Diploma · Kyiv · February 2017
Corrective education: speech therapist and special-education teacher for preschool children with speech disorders. This is the qualification behind everything I write about silent periods, late talkers and when a family should actually see a specialist.
CertTESOL · CertPT Level 6, Distinction · October 2025
Trinity CertTESOL, the international standard for teaching English as a foreign language, and the Level 6 Certificate for Practising Teachers — awarded with Distinction and regulated by Ofqual under qualification number 603/5432/X.
Teaching English in Pre-Primary Education · Distinction · 2025
A 60-hour NILE Online course dedicated specifically to teaching English to pre-primary children, completed between April and June 2025 with a Distinction on the final assignment.
I started with the youngest children in Kyiv, teaching primary-school English, and then trained a second time — in corrective education, as a speech therapist for preschool children with speech disorders. That second qualification changed how I teach. Once you have worked with a child who genuinely cannot produce a sound, you stop confusing "won't" with "can't", and you stop treating every quiet week as a failure.
Over more than nine years I have taught children aged 1 to 12, and founded a children's educational centre in Ukraine that worked with more than fifty families. Then I moved to Dubai, flew for Emirates, and kept teaching the whole time — because the question mothers asked me never changed, wherever I was: my English is not perfect, so how am I supposed to give it to my child?
Mommy & Me English is my answer to that question. It does not ask you to sit your child down for lessons, and it does not ask your English to be flawless. It puts the language into the day you already have — the morning, the meals, the walk, the bath, the bedtime story — because that is where a child under five actually learns language: from a person she trusts, in the middle of ordinary life.
I write about all of it on the blog — the silent period, the child who refuses to speak English with her mother, whether it is too late to start at four, and what to do when the words seem to disappear.
Through the Mommy & Me English method I teach mothers to build English into everyday life — play, songs and daily rituals, no textbooks and no cramming.
See the method →For families in Dubai I also teach in person, at home, with the same play-and-ritual approach for children aged 2–5.
Dubai lessons →Before teaching full time I flew for Emirates. I still coach aspiring cabin crew through aviation English, the Assessment Day and airline interviews — Emirates, Qatar, Etihad and the other Gulf carriers.
Emirates interview preparation →
An English teacher and early-childhood language specialist based in Dubai, working with Ukrainian-speaking families in the UAE and worldwide. She holds two Ukrainian Specialist diplomas and two British teaching qualifications, has taught children aged 1–12 for more than nine years, and created the Mommy & Me English method.
Four, all documented on this page: a Specialist diploma in primary education and primary-school English (Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University, 2015); a Specialist diploma in corrective education as a speech therapist for preschool children with speech disorders (National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, 2017); Trinity College London CertTESOL and the Level 6 CertPT with Distinction (2025); and a NILE Norwich course in teaching English in pre-primary education, also passed with Distinction (2025).
No — and that is deliberate rather than a limitation. She learned English as a second language herself, which is exactly the position the mothers she teaches are in. A native speaker cannot explain how to get from Ukrainian to English, because they never made that journey.
It is the difference between reassuring a worried mother and being able to tell her when the worry is justified. It informs the guidance on silent periods, on children who understand but do not speak, and on the specific point where a family should stop waiting and seek an assessment — including the rule that a bilingual child must be assessed in all of her languages, not only English.
The Mommy & Me English method is built for children aged 1 to 5, taught through their mother. Her teaching experience covers ages 1 to 12, and the corrective-education qualification is specific to preschool age.
She is based in Dubai. For the online video course it makes no difference — families follow it from Kyiv, Lviv, Kharkiv, anywhere in Ukraine or abroad. In Dubai itself she also teaches in person, in the family home.
An approach that puts English into the day a family already has — morning, meals, walks, bath time, bedtime — instead of adding lessons to it. There are no textbooks and no drilling: the mother learns what to say and when, and the child acquires English the way she acquired her first language.
Yes. Before teaching full time she flew for Emirates, and she still coaches candidates through aviation English, the Assessment Day and airline interviews for Emirates, Qatar, Etihad and the other Gulf carriers.
By WhatsApp or email — both are linked in the footer of every page. Messages about the course, about a specific worry with your own child, or about cabin-crew coaching are all welcome.
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