Ottilia Sadka
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About me
If you find yourself grappling with difficult thought patterns or facing anxiety and depression that impact your daily life, reaching out to a mental health professional can be a significant first step on your healing journey.
What can you expect working with me?
I practice person-centred therapy. Part of this approach is not only to assist people process their challenges but also to empower them by showing that they have the strength and tools to navigate through them.
I aim to create a safe environment, allowing you (and your nervous system) to feel secure enough to explore past and present feelings and embrace change. I prioritise working at your pace, offering listening, understanding and support.
Confronting certain memories or feelings can feel overwhelming. I choose to approach these moments with care (trauma-informed outlook). Allowing for space and patience is essential to helping you navigate difficult emotions without feeling judged, rushed or forced into change.
How does therapy work?
Due to the therapeutic relationship, a safe space is created where individuals may feel seen, heard, and understood—something that’s often missing when we are dealing with internal struggles or external pressures. That sense of support can help people let down their guard and tap into their own inner resources for healing and change.
When someone feels truly understood, they’re often more willing to explore their own thoughts, emotions, and desires. It can be the first step toward unlocking answers that have always been inside but were maybe clouded by fear, doubt, or a sense of overwhelm.
I welcome individuals dealing with a range of mental health concerns, including relationship issues, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, neurodiversity, and more.
I am particularly intrigued by the complex emotional and psychological landscapes that people navigate, especially as they go through life-changing experiences and transitions. E.g. stepping into adulthood (and its responsibilities), midlife change, career change, becoming a parent, grief and relationship breakdowns—these changes can be defined by both a sense of challange and dissatisfaction as well as a curiosity to explore new possibilities. These are periods that offer space for self-reflection: we may meet with longing for change and sometimes feeling uncertain or even stuck. These phases could be seen as "gateways": although they come with discomfort, there is also the opportunity for renewal and growth. They are moments where we can start redefining what success, happiness, and meaning look like outside of the expectations we have absorbed over the years.
My therapeutic passions (always client-led):
> Inner child work (using a movie/story therapy intervention to process past hurts- rewiring memories)
>Nervous System/Somatic Experiencing (What's the message of the body?)
>Attachment Theory (The history and patterns of our relationships)
>Trauma processing (painful memories and related emotional reactions)
>Relational Depth (Relationships to self and others)
I have experience (Pegasus Men's Wellbeing, Penhaligon Counselling Agency) working with men and women who went through life-changing events and wanted to make sense of their related feelings as well as develop skills to build resilience to face challenges.
I am happy to serve you according to your needs to the best of my skills and knowledge.
If you believe we might be a good fit, please reach out.
Steps to start therapy with me:
My services include mainly online therapy, but more than happy to organise walk-and-talk or face-to-face sessions (an additional £5-£10 room charge may apply) in Truro, Cornwall.
1. Get in touch via email or phone
2. We organise a free 20-minute video call
3. You tell me what you are looking for and I'll tell you if I can assist you (I am happy to recommend competent alternative counsellors if needed)
4. If we decide to work together, I will send you a counselling contract for you to sign, then we set up our first session (time and date) to start our therapeutic relationship.
Email me at:
ottiliasadka@gmail.com
Call or text:
07808 848466
Warm Regards,
Ottilia
Training, qualifications & experience
- L5 Counselling and Psychotherapy, Cornwall College
- L4 Psychology, Derby University
- European Studies (MA), University of West Hungary
- AnaLog - picture/memory therapy (similar to EMDR)
- Suicide prevention - ASIST
- CPD training with PESI: attachment theory, complex PTSD, interrelational communication
- Safeguarding and SAND trainings.
- I have participated in embodiment, shadow work, art therapy, inner child, play therapy, dance, gestalt, and ecotherapy workshops.
- I have over 100 hours of person-centred face-to-face and online therapy experience.
- I have over 100 hours of face-to-face and online AnaLog therapy experience.
Member organisations
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Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
£40.00 per session
Free initial online session
Concessions offered for
Additional information
I charge £40 for 60 minutes of person-centred talking therapy.
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