About Edgars
Edgars Semenovs creates a calm space for people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief or painful memories. He keeps sessions steady and paced to each person’s comfort, helping them notice how thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations connect. Edgars speaks English, Latvian and Russian and works with people from the United Kingdom and internationally.
He uses a somatic lens alongside attachment and client-centred ideas. That means attention to the body as well as talking about relationships and life choices.
Background and approach
Practical techniques such as cognitive behavioural strategies are used when they suit what a person wants to work on. Edgars draws on lived experience of recovery from addiction and trauma. That personal background shaped his belief that people change when the right conditions are in place.
He aims to offer those conditions by focusing on acceptance, self-compassion and building small, achievable steps forward. Sessions often include grounding, breath awareness and simple body-based noticing alongside reflective conversation. He also brings in solution-focused and existential questions to help people find purpose and practical direction.
The pace is collaborative and adjusted to what feels manageable in the moment. Edgars holds BACP registration, and he has worked in NHS staff counselling, mental health recovery services and crisis teams. His experience includes supporting people affected by alcohol, drug and pornography addiction in organisational settings.
He recommends a gentle, steady approach to recovery and change. To begin, a short matching questionnaire helps pair someone to his practice and then sessions are scheduled to suit the person’s circumstances.
How Edgars brings body and attachment work online
Edgars commonly combines somatic work with attachment-based and client-centred approaches. Somatic work invites people to notice bodily sensations, breath and tension and links those sensations to feelings and memories; it can help with trauma, anxiety and addiction. Attachment-based approaches look at how early relationship patterns shape current ways of relating and can help with intimacy, trust and communication. Client-centred work focuses on listening without judgement and helping the person discover their own answers at their own pace.Finding the right mix of approaches is part of the therapeutic process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals and preferences and then shape sessions together. That collaborative process makes it easier to try different techniques and adjust what is being used as therapy progresses.
Online sessions can be delivered by video calls, phone, live chat or text-based messaging, offering flexibility for people with busy schedules or mobility constraints. These formats allow for regular check-ins, timely support and a way to continue work from home or when travelling. The variety of options helps match practical needs while keeping focus on building skills, awareness and small steps toward change.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Latvian, Russian