About Edgars
Edgars Semenovs offers a calm, steady presence for people facing stress, anxiety, addiction and loss. He creates a space where clients can move at their own pace and talk about painful memories, upsetting feelings and difficult behaviours. Edgars works in English, Latvian and Russian and practises from the United Kingdom.
He brings six years of counselling experience and is a BACP member, which indicates professional registration with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
How Edgars works
His background includes work in NHS staff counselling, mental health recovery services, hospitals and crisis teams. He has also supported people through addictions services for alcohol, drugs and pornography. Edgars uses ideas from attachment-based work and client-centred practice to build trust and safety in sessions.
He also draws on cognitive behavioural techniques and mindful, existential perspectives to help clients notice patterns, try different actions and find new meaning. His lived experience of trauma and addiction informs how he listens. He aims to offer what he calls the necessary conditions for healing - acceptance, compassion and a chance to pause and reflect.
He combines talking with embodied practices such as breathing and simple movement that he uses in his own life. People come to him for a wide range of issues including relationship and intimacy concerns, grief, parenting strain, low self-esteem, eating and body-image worries, bipolar and coping with life changes.
Edgars focuses on helping individuals recognise their worth and develop practical ways to manage emotions and everyday struggles.
Edgars lists 8 ways of working on the entry:
What Edgars works with
The areas below are the ones Edgars selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 6 |
| Languages | English, Latvian, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Practical therapy approaches for online sessions
Edgars often combines attachment-based ideas with client-centred care. Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships affect current patterns and helps people notice how they relate to others now. Client-centred practice focuses on listening without judgement and helping clients find their own solutions through acceptance and empathy.He also uses cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviours. CBT is useful for anxiety, low mood and changing habits by testing thoughts and planning small experiments in everyday life.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Edgars will talk with clients about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and then adapt methods together. That collaborative process makes it easier to try different ways of working until something fits.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to give flexibility. Video calls let you see non-verbal cues and have a fuller conversation. Phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth or camera use is limited. Live chat and messaging suit short check-ins, reflective journalling between sessions, or people who prefer writing. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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