This professional is available for new clients.
This professional is available for new clients.
About me
Therapy for People and Online Therapy for Women are psychotherapy services for people who at the present moment in their lives require mental and emotional support.
Learn more at:
https://www.therapyforpeople.co.uk/
https://www.onlinetherapyforwomen.co.uk/
When life is ordinary with its usual ups and downs, we more or less manage. We go through our daily lives, our minds and bodies working, and we rely on them for rational thinking, good judgement, vital energy and physical strength. We are surrounded by people who care about us and whom we love, if we are fortunate.
Then something happens, out of the blue or it creeps in gradually. A sudden physical illness or a chronic malaise, loss of a loved one or a major life’s challenge, followed by increased levels of confusion, worry and anxiety, maybe culminating in depression.
Difficulties come with pain. Whether physical or mental, very often both. Every day people struggle with adversity: economic hardship, issues with their health, identity, fertility, relationships, work-related stress or ageing. In pursuit of a better life, sometimes people change cities and countries, leaving friendships and families behind.
Finding ourselves alone, we can feel lost, stuck and isolated. We need to rethink, recalibrate and work painful feelings through. Maybe some of us have felt down and anxious for a long time and now have finally decided it is time to make positive changes. Throughout our lives, a moment comes when we need a “listening ear”, someone who gets it without criticism or judgement – and Therapy for People is designed specifically for that.
The services provide emotional support by offering one-to-one online psychotherapy sessions. The therapy is delivered by me, Olga Utrivanova, a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist trained in London by the National Health Service (NHS) at the the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust.
Appropriate emotional support is vital, especially during the times of unavoidable life’s changes, changes to our world, our minds and bodies; be it recovery from a critical illness, trauma, loss or long-lasting anxiety and depression. Feeling well supported mentally is important for our self-esteem and self-acceptance, so we can learn to listen to, respect and trust our own thoughts and feelings.
Such healthy attitudes of self-respect make our mental structures stronger, build our resilience and bring relief from pain. They are solid proof that we are more than a tangled knot of our twisted symptoms and give us energy and strength to work through tricky times in our lives and move on.
Training, qualifications & experience
I trained in London with the National Health Service (NHS) at Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, where I qualified as a Psychodynamic Psychotherapist in 2016.
I chose my training very carefully. To be trained by the NHS was important and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy model inspired me the most. Here are some key points that attracted me to the model:
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy has depth – it is interested in a person at a number of different levels – important connections are made through the work
- It is thorough – everything is taken into account – the person as a whole – things that bring them to therapy and things they manage very well
- It is about relationships – between you and your therapist – you and the rest of the world – as we live in the world of things, events and people
- It is about creativity and imagination – it looks at dreams, desires, fantasies and wishes – as humans we are more than our conscious waking minds
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy can help us. A problem shared in confidence with someone you trust is a problem halved! A psychotherapy session is a confidential safe space for you to express your thoughts and feelings. The process as a whole enables you to work your issues through and move ahead in life. The understanding gained can reconcile you with your past and guide you through the tough times in the future.
Before, during and after my training I worked in a variety of mental health settings in the NHS and the charity sector in London. That intense period of learning was a gift. I saw first-hand the way that people can suffer when something stretches them to their limits, whether limits in the body or limits in the mind. But people recover.
With the passage of time life changes; circumstances, minds and bodies change. These transformations affect us deeply, sometimes in unexpected ways. Nobody is immune to suffering and pain and when the times are tough, we need another human being to be present.
In my work I am interested in issues of:
- health
- illness
- ageing
- loss
- anxiety
- depression
- obsessions and compulsions
- cultural identity
- creativity
- immigration
- major life events and changes
My professional registration is with the BPC (British Psychoanalytic Council) and the BACP (British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy).
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
The British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) is a professional association, representing the profession of psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
The organisation is itself made up of fourteen member organisations and BPC accredits the trainings of its member organisations. An individual who qualifies from one of these trainings is then eligible for entry into the BPC's register.
BPC registrants are governed by a code of ethics, a policy of continuing professional development, a statement on confidentiality and a complaints procedure. The BPC is a Member Society of the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector (EFPP). Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred).
Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision.
Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training.
All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£60.00 per session
When I work
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Further information
What I Offer and Fee
A Psychodynamic Psychotherapy session is fifty minutes long and at the moment I only work online. The sessions take place at the same time, on the same day, every week, once a week. A number of times a year I take scheduled breaks that usually coincide with the national holidays in the UK and school half-terms. I will give you plenty of notice about the breaks.
Psychotherapy starts with an assessment consultation, where we meet each other for the first time online and discuss what brings you to therapy. After the initial consultation we decide on what out next step together will be. Sometimes more than one assessment consultation maybe required to make a decision.
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy can be:
- short-term (16 sessions)
- long-term (1 year)
- open-ended (from 1 year onwards)
- We will discuss the length of your therapy at the assessment stage
I work on:
- Mondays
- Tuesdays
- Wednesdays
- Thursdays
- The sessions take place on Zoom.
- Please make sure you have a big screen (a computer or a laptop rather than a phone screen) and that the sound and video on your computer or laptop is of good quality so that you can get the maximum benefit from your therapy sessions.
I work in English and Russian.
My fee is £60 for a fifty-minute session.
Learn more about the way I work at:
https://www.therapyforpeople.co.uk/
https://www.onlinetherapyforwomen.co.uk/
