About Viktoria
Viktoria Kirilova is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with five years of direct therapy experience and BACP accreditation. She draws on a range of approaches and aims to shape sessions around what each person needs. Viktoria speaks English and Bulgarian and works with people facing many kinds of struggles.
Viktoria keeps the conversation straightforward and practical. She focuses on building a working relationship first, then helps people make sense of their feelings.
How Viktoria works
Sessions often include gentle exploration of past events alongside practical steps to cope now. She regularly supports people dealing with stress, anxiety and depression. Viktoria also helps clients with trauma and abuse, addictions, self-esteem and difficulties around intimacy and relationships.
She offers help for issues such as grief, parenting strain, sleep and eating concerns, and career stress. Viktoria uses methods that encourage collaboration and goal-setting. She employs client-centred listening, cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thoughts, and solution-focused tools to set short-term goals.
Trauma-focused work is used when painful memories need careful attention. In sessions she balances reflective listening with practical exercises and small, doable steps. People meet her when they want clear talk, help to rethink patterns, and support planning next steps.
Her style is calm, direct and caring.
Viktoria lists 6 ways of working on the entry:
What Viktoria works with
The areas below are the ones Viktoria selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | BACP |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 5 |
| Languages | English, Bulgarian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that suit online therapy and everyday life
Viktoria uses client-centred work to place the person’s experience at the heart of each session, listening closely and shaping support around what matters to the individual. This approach helps people feel heard and sets the tone for practical change.She also draws on cognitive behavioural therapy, which focuses on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing small changes in thinking and behaviour. CBT can be useful for anxiety, low mood, sleep problems and patterns that keep problems going.
Motivational interviewing is another tool she uses when someone wants to make a change but feels unsure or stuck. It involves exploring ambivalence, building motivation and creating straightforward next steps that fit the person’s own goals.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. Viktoria works collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person’s needs, goals and preferences. Plans are reviewed together and adjusted as things shift.
Online therapy offers flexibility across formats such as video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video suits deeper conversations, phone can be easier when bandwidth is limited, chat or messaging work well for quick check-ins or shorter tasks. These options help people fit sessions around work, family and other commitments.
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