About Slavena
Slavena Nikodimova welcomes people who are feeling overwhelmed, stuck or worn down by life. She is a UK-based BACP counsellor with 15 years of experience. She aims to make it easier to talk about what hurts and to find practical ways forward.
She helps people who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression and the effects of trauma and abuse. She also supports clients facing relationship and family difficulties, grief, identity and intimacy concerns, and struggles with addiction or eating issues.
How Slavena works
Additional areas she works with include parenting strain, career stress, compassion fatigue and ADHD-related challenges. Her style focuses on understanding how early attachment and relationship patterns shape current feelings and behaviour. She uses approaches that centre the person and that help uncover strong emotions in order to change unhelpful patterns.
Sessions aim to be calm, direct and focused on real-life steps you can try between meetings. People can expect to talk about what matters most to them and to explore how past experiences influence present choices. She also works on communication problems, codependency, boundaries and recovery after separation or infidelity.
Practical issues such as body image, caregiver stress, hoarding and isolation are included in her work. Slavena offers appointments that suit different schedules and can be contacted through the platform to ask questions about session length or timing. She invites people to take the first step and complete the short matching questionnaire to begin arranging sessions.
Slavena lists 3 ways of working on the entry:
What Slavena works with
The areas below are the ones Slavena selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 15 |
| Languages | English |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Relational approaches for online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape current emotions and patterns. It helps people understand why they feel anxious, avoidant or stuck in certain ways when relating to others. Client-centred therapy places the person at the heart of the work and uses listening and acceptance to help people make sense of their own choices and values. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) focuses on the experience of strong feelings in relationships and helps shift patterns that keep people disconnected or distressed.Finding the right approach is part of the process and will be decided together. The therapist will talk with the client about needs, goals and preferences and then suggest ways of working that fit. This collaborative process may include trying different methods to see what helps most.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for face-to-face conversation and non-verbal cues, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is limited, live chat can suit quick check-ins, and messaging works well for ongoing written reflection. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while keeping the focus on practical change.
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Write down two things you would want to be different in six months. That is the most useful thing to bring to a first session, whoever it is with. If you would rather start now than keep reading, online sessions are the quickest route.
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