IJSP Number 6, 2024

121 supervisor for patients from a war zone, and this was my first year working as a supervisor. Moreover, I had to understand that my native language, Russian, was the language of the enemy for Ukrainians. However, I hoped that my experience working in Israel and my identification as an Israeli psychologist, which I already had, would be helpful. I thought that the 10-week project would help us all together to figure out what was happening and what to do next. No one expected it to be 100 weeks and, as it is now clear, even more. Over these 2 years, I led three long-term support groups for Ukrainian psychologists. These were two weekly online groups in the IAGP project, each lasting 1.5 years. I worked on this project with my Ukrainian colleague Iryna Prozhoha, who was my co-director and now continues to work with these groups as the director. I also lead one large group of volunteer psychologists (about 50 psychologists) for the Ukrainian charity "Woman and War" (currently ongoing, started in July 2022). Today, almost 2 years after those first days of the war, we have together experienced various military situations, difficulties, and dramas. Probably, we know more, but the war is still ongoing. The questions are still relevant: what is happening, and what to do next? It is appropriate to add that the list of literature specifically dedicated to the topic of psychologist supervision in wartime is quite narrow. Further, a few important articles will be mentioned, but until today, there has been no systematic and comprehensive study and description of the topic. Over these 2 years of the Ukrainian-Russian war, we, together with clients, have gone through several major social stages in the dynamics of the war as psychologists. Conditionally, these can be divided into shock, adaptation (activation), and powerlessness (freezing). 2. SHOCK (Spring 2022) The sudden, extensive change from a peaceful to a wartime way of life, caused by the constant threat to life, undoubtedly and inevitably causes shock. In a state of shock were clients, psychologists, and supervisors. Many residents of Ukraine left their homes, cities, and country. Migration was massive, instant, and forced. During the first group meetings, I didn't know what exactly to say. I didn't even know which language to speak. I began leading groups in English with translation into Ukrainian. Soon, group members understood that I comprehended Ukrainian well, and the translator stopped translating from Ukrainian to English for me. It was obvious that all group members spoke Russian fluently, but they didn't want to speak the language of the enemy, committing daily war crimes against peaceful Ukrainians. It was also evident that interpretation took up much of the group's time. In such a strange state, the groups operated for several weeks until the participants got used to me and suggested working in Russian - they trusted me