About Tatyana
Tatyana Sibthorpe offers a practical, client-centred approach to therapy. She blends straightforward conversation with evidence-based techniques to help people manage anxiety, depression, relationship strain and addiction. She speaks English and Russian and works with clients across the United Kingdom and internationally.
Over 16 years she has helped people cope with trauma and abuse, career stress, grief and a wide range of life changes. Her work also covers intimacy concerns, eating and sleeping issues, bipolar mood difficulties, and compassion fatigue.
How Tatyana works
She gives attention to attachment and abandonment concerns, adoption and foster care issues, and the impact of chronic illness. Tatyana adapts her style to each person. Core methods she uses include Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, cognitive behavioural ideas and a client-centred stance.
She also draws on attachment-based thinking and some techniques from dialectical behaviour approaches when helpful. Sessions focus on practical skills, clearer communication and manageable steps forward. People can expect a respectful, sensitive way of working.
Conversations are shaped around the client’s goals and everyday realities. Tatyana aims to make therapy feel understandable and usable between sessions. She offers sessions by video call, phone, live chat and text messaging.
Fees vary by location and use a subscription model that can be cancelled at any time. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is completed and appointments are scheduled from there.
Tatyana lists 18 ways of working on the entry:
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
What Tatyana works with
The areas below are the ones Tatyana selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 16 |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
How therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice unhelpful thoughts while focusing on values-led action. It is useful for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes because it encourages small, value-driven steps rather than trying to eliminate difficult feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) breaks problems into thoughts, feelings and behaviours and teaches practical strategies to change unhelpful patterns; it is often used for anxiety, depression and sleep or eating problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and helps people develop new ways of relating when attachment issues or abandonment concerns are present.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about problems, goals and preferences and will recommend an approach or mix of methods to try. This is a collaborative process and adjustments are made as progress is reviewed.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to fit sessions into a busy life. Video calls recreate face-to-face conversation, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quick check-in is needed, and live chat or text messaging suit shorter updates or people who prefer writing. These options make it simpler to keep continuity of care around work, travel and family commitments while using the chosen therapeutic approaches.
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