""I think the West is important because a lot of people see mental health care in particular, as an aftereffect," Timtchenko said over breakfast at a caf e9 in Kyiv in September."
""People think [mental health] is something that will be important after the war, when we're actually processing trauma and trying to recover," she said. "Actually, if we wait, the amount of need then will be impossible to ad"
On February 24, 2022, Russian tanks rolled toward Kyiv and therapist Nathalie Timtchenko immediately worried about friends, family, and colleagues sheltering from air raids. While working in Boston-area psychiatric hospitals, she built a Google form asking international mental-health professionals to volunteer and shared it across networks. Within a week 450 volunteers signed up; she later capped responses near 1,000 and chartered the group as an NGO called First Aid of the Soul within a month. The NGO draws volunteers worldwide, including Senegal, India, and a majority from the U.S., and focuses on ongoing emotional processing during the war rather than waiting until after the conflict.
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