About Zhanna
Zhanna Murphy is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of experience. She works with people who are feeling stressed, anxious, low in mood, or stuck in relationship patterns. Zhanna speaks both English and Russian and draws on a range of approaches to suit each person she meets.
Her work often focuses on everyday problems such as sleep difficulties, parenting strain, anger, and challenges around intimacy. She also helps people facing grief, trauma and abuse, addiction, chronic illness, and the fallout from separation and divorce.
How Zhanna works
Zhanna pays attention to how early attachments and patterns of relating affect current life. In sessions she uses client-centred listening to help people feel heard and understood. She blends that with cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking and to try practical steps that change day-to-day feelings.
Mindfulness and emotionally-focused methods are used when helpful to build awareness of emotions and how to respond to them. Zhanna has worked in both agency and personal settings. That range means she is used to supporting people with different backgrounds and pressures.
She aims to make therapy practical and down-to-earth, focusing on changes people can notice between sessions. People who prefer collaborative, realistic work may find her approach fits well. She will work with each person to set goals and choose methods that match their needs and life circumstances.
Zhanna lists 9 ways of working on the entry:
What Zhanna works with
The areas below are the ones Zhanna selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | NCPS |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English, Russian |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | United Kingdom |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online work
Zhanna draws on attachment-based ideas to look at how early relationships influence today's feelings and patterns. This helps when people notice repeated issues in intimacy, abandonment worries, or trouble trusting others. She also uses client-centred therapy, which means sessions begin with open listening and follow the person's priorities so they set the pace and focus.Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, is used to identify unhelpful thoughts and try small experiments to shift mood and behaviour. That approach is practical and often helps with anxiety, sleep problems, low mood and coping strategies for life changes. Together these methods offer both understanding of emotional patterns and hands-on steps to change them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Zhanna will discuss the different methods and will collaborate with each person to choose what fits their goals and preferences. This is a shared decision that can change as progress is made.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful when people want face-to-face conversation, phone calls can be easier when bandwidth is low, and messaging suits shorter check-ins or regular support between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible for varied schedules and life demands.
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