About Petra
Petra Alena Todorov is a counsellor who blends psychodynamic, trauma-focused and systemic approaches to help people facing stress, anxiety and relationship strain. She draws on eight years of clinical practice to guide conversations that are direct and compassionate. Petra speaks English and Romanian and works from the United Kingdom.
Her sessions aim to uncover patterns that keep problems repeating. She helps people make sense of painful feelings such as grief, shame or emptiness.
How Petra works
Petra pays attention to attachment and abandonment wounds and how these affect communication and close connections. She also supports people dealing with caregiver stress, codependency and the fallout of separation or infidelity. Immigration-related challenges and cultural aspects of identity are part of her focus.
Practical coping strategies are woven together with longer-term work on emotional patterns. Petra uses trauma-focused ideas when past events continue to affect daily life. Systemic thinking helps map how family roles and blended family issues shape behaviour.
Psychodynamic perspective looks at earlier relationships and recurring themes that influence current choices. Sessions are offered via video call, phone, live chat or text messaging. Costs vary by location and a subscription model is used, which can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed before scheduling.
Petra lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Petra works with
The areas below are the ones Petra selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 8 |
| Languages | English, Romanian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
Memberships and registers are shown as supplied; they are not licences, and this directory does not verify them.
Online support options
Approach-focused online therapy that fits your life
Petra uses psychodynamic, trauma-focused and systemic ideas to guide online sessions. Psychodynamic work looks at early relationships and repeated patterns that shape feelings and choices, which can help with long-standing issues like emptiness and dependent behaviour. Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on addressing the effects of distressing events and easing symptoms that interfere with daily life, such as dissociation or heightened anxiety. Systemic therapy maps how family roles and blended family dynamics influence communication and conflict, useful for separation, caregiver stress and complex family problems.Choosing the right approach is a shared process. Petra will talk with each person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they decide whether to focus on making immediate coping changes, processing past hurts, or understanding relationship patterns over time.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat and text-based messaging to make therapy flexible. Video calls suit in-depth conversations and visual connection. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can be easier to fit into work breaks. Live chat and messaging work well for shorter check-ins or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options allow people to access support around daily life and schedules.
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