About Dmitri
Dmitri Shirobokov helps people facing a wide range of concerns. He supports those coping with anxiety, depression, addictions and stress. He also helps with relationship and intimacy-related issues, grief, career questions and major life changes.
Dmitri practises in a straightforward, goal-focused way. He listens first to find what matters to each person. Then he works together with them to set clear steps towards change.
Sessions aim to build on strengths rather than dwell only on problems.
How Dmitri works
He brings 14 years of experience working in rehabilitation settings and with people from different countries. Dmitri holds individual membership of the British Association for Counsellors and Psychotherapists, BACP, which is noted on his profile as a credential. In sessions he draws on a mix of approaches to suit the issue at hand.
He uses client-centred methods to follow a person's pace, cognitive behavioural techniques to address unhelpful thinking and motivational interviewing to support change. Mindfulness and existential ideas also appear when they help someone make sense of life choices. Dmitri offers practical, easy-to-understand suggestions.
He may suggest small experiments to try between sessions. He also helps people notice patterns that keep them stuck and build realistic ways to act differently. His practice supports work across many common concerns including trauma and abuse, domestic violence, eating and sleeping problems, anger, compassion fatigue, abandonment issues and family difficulties.
Sessions are available in English and Russian for international clients.
Dmitri lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Dmitri works with
The areas below are the ones Dmitri selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 14 |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How Dmitri's approaches work online
Client-Centred Therapy focuses on understanding a person's experience and moving at their pace. In this approach the counsellor listens carefully and reflects what matters to the person, which can help with issues like low self-esteem, relationship concerns and grief.Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts, feelings and actions connect. It uses practical exercises to change unhelpful thinking and behaviour, which is often useful for anxiety, depression, stress and some addiction-related problems.
Motivational Interviewing helps people find their own reasons for change. It is a conversational approach that can be useful when someone feels stuck or unsure about making big changes to habits or relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and needs, then suggest which methods to use. This is a collaborative process and approaches can be adjusted as progress is made.
Online therapy offers flexibility in how sessions happen. Video calls let people meet face to face from different locations, phone sessions can fit a short break or easier audio-only contact, and live chat or text messaging allow quick check-ins or ongoing written support. These options help people fit therapy around work, travel or other commitments while using the techniques described above.
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