Druchinina lived in the United States from 1993 to 2007. She worked with single skaters, including Sarah Hughes and Sasha Cohen, pair skaters Ekaterina Gordeeva / Sergei Grinkov, and ice dancers in Evgeny Platov's group. After returning to Russia, she worked for many years at the Sports Palace "Jubilee" Club in Saint Petersburg with the sports group and pairs of Tamara Moskvina. In 2011, she moved to Moscow, where she briefly coached her son, Artur Dmitriev Jr. She collaborated with Svetlana Alexeeva's ice dancing students in the 2011–12 season and with Alexander Zhulin's ice dancers.
