About Tatyana
Tatyana Sibthorpe is a counsellor who brings 16 years of experience to sessions. She uses a calm, respectful style and speaks English and Russian. She aims to make difficult conversations easier to begin and stay with people through change.
She works with a wide range of concerns including addictions, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety and stress. She also helps with career problems, grief, intimacy concerns and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
Tatyana supports people dealing with eating or sleeping problems, bipolar mood issues and the strain of caregiving. Tatyana adapts her approach to each person. She draws on somatic ideas to connect the body and emotions, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to clarify values, and attachment-based work to address relationship patterns.
She also uses client-centred listening and practical cognitive techniques when useful. Sessions are shaped around what the person needs in that moment. Conversations can include talking, grounding exercises and simple practices to try between sessions.
The focus is on small, manageable steps rather than big jumps. She practises in the United Kingdom and accepts international clients. People can work with her by video call, phone, live chat or text messaging.
Starting is a matter of completing a short matching questionnaire and booking a time that fits. Tatyana aims to be steady, compassionate and clear during work together. She will collaborate on goals and adjust plans as those goals change over time.
How somatic and values-based methods work online
Tatyana often combines somatic ideas with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. Somatic-informed work focuses on how the body and nervous system hold emotions. It uses simple attention to breath, posture and bodily sensations to reduce overwhelm and improve emotional awareness. ACT helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps in line with those values while accepting difficult feelings.She also draws on attachment-based ideas to understand how past relationship patterns shape current reactions. This approach looks at how people learn to seek safety and connection, and it can help with relationship difficulties, trauma-related responses and intimacy concerns. In sessions the therapist will use gentle reflection and practical exercises to explore those patterns collaboratively.
Choosing the right combination of methods is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences and what feels most helpful. Together they will try approaches and adjust them over time rather than committing to a fixed plan from the start.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel. They also allow people to practise skills between sessions and to check in when needed, making treatment more accessible and adaptable to everyday life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- 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
Therapeutic approaches
- 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
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Russian