Ekaterina Vitkova is a Master of Psychology with many years of practice at the Complex  Oncology Center-Plovdiv. The complex oncology center is a medical institution with traditions in diagnostics, early detection, complex treatment and dispensary monitoring of patients with oncological malignant and benign diseases of persons over eighteen years of age.

Ekaterina Vitkova is a psychoanalytically oriented therapist, psychodrama therapist and Balint leader. She conducts psychological consultations, psychotherapy sessions with patients and their relatives. Works with specialized questionnaires to determine the psycho-emotional state of patients.

She also conducts research to measure staff burnout syndrome and leads medical team groups on the Balint approach. Mentor for European programs and state internships for psychology students – interns at the Complex Oncology Center – Plovdiv.

Member of the National expert board MORE (Multidisciplinary Oncology Conversations and Extracts) and co-author of the Guide for psychosocial support and rehabilitation in oncology and the Guide to behavior in urothelial carcinoma.

Her publication activity is related to the topics of burnout in the oncology team, the role of the psychologist in the multidisciplinary oncology team, the Balint approach as prevention of burnout in the oncology team.

Chairman of the Bulgarian Psycho-Oncology Association and the Bulgarian Balint Society. Permanent member of IPOS, Bulgarian Society for Lacanian Psychoanalysis and NLS. Member of the Board of the Joint Oncology National Network (BJCN) and coordinator of the cluster sector “Programs for psychosocial support and quality of life assessment” in BJCN.