Ksenia Belash
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About me
HELLO AND WELCOME
I am a holistic trauma-informed counsellor, inner reparenting and body-mind healing guide. I offer support with the consequences of growing up in dysfunctional / misattuned families, such as relationship and attachment issues, co-dependent tendencies, anxiety, depression, grief, overwhelm, low confidence, shame and perfectionism. I also love supporting individuals on the path of post-traumatic growth with creating more spaciousness, joy, ease, abundance and fulfilment in their lives.
Whilst I welcome all clients, I often work with other spaceholders, therapists, people from the creative field and those who identify as empaths and highly sensitives. Being highly sensitive and empathic myself, I understand the unique challenges that being this way in our contemporary world can bring and feel passionate about offering the level of support I myself had missed earlier in my life.
HOW CAN I HELP?
I offer a soulful, gentle, creative and deeply empowering space where you can safely explore and unpack whatever you need help with. I have extensive experience supporting clients with the following challenges:
- Relationship struggles and complex relational dynamics, including the effects of early attachment wounds and relational trauma
- Emotional overwhelm and a sense of being stuck in the ruminating, worried mind
- A sense of not fitting in, existential loneliness and struggle to fully belong
- Loss, bereavement and grief, including historical losses and disenfranchised (socially unrecognised) grief
- Imposter syndrome, self-doubt, toxic guilt and shame
- Difficulty with saying no, setting boundaries and speaking your truth
- Conscious parenting struggles
Whatever you’re bringing with you, I’d love to offer you an opportunity to explore your experience not only on the level of the mind, but also through the wisdom of your body, felt sense, and deeper self.
MY APPROACH
My therapeutic style is intuitive, authentic, creative, embodied and collaborative.
As your compassionate ally, I will listen carefully and deeply, not only with my mind, but also with my heart, body and somatic intuition. Together, we will start our journey by exploring and shaping an intention that feels right for you and will move organically from there.
The relational trust between us is perhaps the most important part of the process, so I will always encourage and welcome feedback and modify my approach based on what I notice and what you tell me.
You may expect a lot of pausing and checking in with yourself about how things feel in the process. What works for someone else, may not work for you, so we'll make sure to explore what feels most supportive to your unique pace and process.
We will move gently, with respect to the needs of your nervous system and the more hesitant parts of you, as I know that it is gentleness, rather than pushing, that ensures a deep and lasting change.
MY ETHOS
I hold the perspective that no matter how stuck things feel, change and new movement are always possible. I also firmly believe that nothing about you and your experience needs fixing but there are many parts waiting to be discovered, understood and welcome - this is when the deepest healing happens. Part of my role is to support you in trusting that your wise inner system already has all the answers and with enough support, safety and attuned presence, it can guide you in the direction of healing and growth.
MY THERAPY BACKGROUND
I am originally qualified in Gestalt - an approach known for its focus on the present moment experience and the spirit of creative exploration and experimentation. However, over time, my practice has evolved into a more holistic approach, as I have been integrating perspectives and elements from many different trainings and modalities I have experienced over the past 8 years. These include Somatic Experiencing, Relational Mindfulness, Family and Systemic Constellations, Somatic Shadow Work, IFS, Embodiment Facilitation and Jungian studies, among others.
In 2018-2020, I volunteered at the London Royal Trinity Hospice as a bereavement counsellor; this has taught me a lot about the strength of human spirit and our capacity to deal with even the hardest, unbearable sides of life, becoming more whole, real and human in the process. This trust in our innate wisdom and healing potential is part of the medicine that I bring to my work as a therapist.
My practice is also informed by my own embodied spiritual practice: somatic movement, communion with nature, dance, sound, meditation, intuitive ritual and ceremony work. I believe in the healing power of symbols, dreams and listening to more subtle, archetypal layers of being and am open to weaving this unseen dimension into the therapy process, if there is a resonance.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Diploma in Gestalt Counselling, Gestalt Centre London, 2016-2019
- Training in Circling (Transformational Connection), 2018
- Training in Non-Violent Communication, 2017
- Training in Authentic Relating, 2018
- Bereavement Support Training at the London Royal Trinity Hospice, 2018
- Training in Embodiment Facilitation, 2020
- Training in Body-Art therapy, 2021
- Somatic Experiencing, Beginner & Intermediate, 2022-2023
- Training in Somatic Shadow Work, 2024
- Training in Family Constellations, ongoing
I am also a qualified as a relational mindfulness facilitator and have been leading embodied human connection circles, groups and retreats since 2017.
Member organisations
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Accredited register membership
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Fees
£85.00 per session
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Additional information
Introduction / Exploration Session: 50£ for a 60-minutes session
Regular (weekly/fortnightly) sessions: 85£ for a 60-minutes session; concessions discussed on the individual basis
Stand-alone body-mind healing sessions: 100£ for a 75 minutes session.
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