About me
I aim to create a welcoming space for individuals who wish to process life happenings through talking and/or creative activities (drawing and visual storytelling).
I have been working with adult men and women dealing with a range of issues, including adverse childhood experiences, midlife transitions, grief, anger, relationship difficulties, self-esteem, anxiety, depression, neurodiversity (autism, ADHD), high sensitivity and more. I offer bereavement support to children and young people as well as adults via an agency. Occasionally, I lead group sessions (e.g. anger workshops or creative journalling).
Drawing: if we decide to meet face-to-face, I provide you with a sketchbook. There might be moments when it feels right for you to explore and express your feelings through art. You don't need artistic skills for therapeutic expressions. Clients appreciate the playfulness and the bottom-up approach, when the head feels too overwhelmed with thoughts. It also allows to connect with pre-verbal experiences.
If you chose to work with me online, you can bring materials with you if you wish to use creativity as part of your processing.
Therapy cards: I use different versions of therapy cards (OH cards, Inuk Cards, handmade cards) which show painted scenarios or abstract forms. They are there for you to choose the ones that you feel drawn to in the moment. Then we would explore the upcoming feelings and revelations as appropriate and as needed. I am there to follow your lead and support you through with anything presenting.
Visualisation: Patterns that are connected to childhood wounds and traumas (shame, guilt, abandonment, misattunement, grief, loss etc.) can be revisited through storytelling. Any distressing memory can be rewired by changing the story according to the needs of your child self (reparenting yourself). In this process we might discover integrations of unhelpful strategies that were necessary survival strategies at the time but now they are holding you back from growing into your true potential.
Somatic awareness: I work holistically as much as I can, and I will often invite you to check in with your body and describe the residing sensations, or be aware of the state of your breath. I might offer you some psycho-education about the nervous system to help understanding the bodily reactions and how to connect with them. The nervous system requires gentleness and safety for it to come out of survival mode and to move into rest and digest.
Steps to start therapy with me:
My services include online therapy or face-to-face sessions in Truro, Cornwall.
1. Get in touch via email.
OR
Phone: text me or leave a voice message, and I'll call you back.
2. We organise a free 20-minute video call.
3. You tell me what you are looking for, and I'll tell you how I work and 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 a counselling contract for you to read and sign, then we will set up our first session (time and date) to start our therapeutic journey together.
Email me at:
ottiliasadka@gmail.com
Leave a message or text:
Warm Regards,
Ottilia
Training, qualifications & experience
- L5 Counselling and Psychotherapy, Cornwall Counselling Institute
- L4 Psychology, Derby University
- European Studies (MA), University of West Hungary
- AnaLog - visual memory therapy (similar to EMDR)
- Facilitating Therapeutic Groups Certificate
- Suicide prevention - ASIST
- CPD training with PESI: attachment theory, complex PTSD, inter-relational communication, Peter Levine Somatic Experiencing
- Safeguarding trainings.
- I have participated in embodiment, shadow work, art therapy, inner child, play therapy, 5 rhythms dance, gestalt, and eco-therapy workshops, creative Personal Development Group.
- I have over 600 hours of person-centred face-to-face and online therapy experience.
- I have over 300 hours of face-to-face and online AnaLog therapy experience.
Member organisations
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
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£50.00 per session
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