About me
Hello, welcome!
My name is Radka (she/they), and I am a BACP Accredited, multilingual, white-other, gender-non-conforming, queer, neurodivergent Gestalt Therapist.
I trust in the present embodied awareness-building through dialogue. I'm interested in how you make meaning and how we are together in our individual intersectionality and diversity. I'm warm and open and would love to support you in becoming curious about your own process. I facilitate a place for relationally digesting, noticing, staying with, chewing on, or playing with whatever carries weight for you. I look at the world through my own biased intersectional lens, and I come in with humility and curiosity to learn about your experience of being you in the world as I strive to recognise your different parts and your context. To me, there's no such thing as 'it goes without saying' - I acknowledge everyone's uniqueness and the impact of systemic and structural inequality in our society, including as someone who immigrated to the UK myself.
I work with clients from diverse backgrounds, with particular dedication to supporting those from historically marginalised communities. I welcome individuals exploring gender queerness, sexuality, and relationship diversity, and have helped clients examine the intersections of their identities - including sexual orientation, gender, belonging, race, and relationship styles such as consensual non-monogamy, including open relationships and polyamory. I also support clients exploring and affirming their neurodivergence and non-neurotypical ways of being, whether diagnosed or not.
I have experience supporting clients navigating depression, anxiety, ADHD, autism, low self-esteem, and personhood, relationship, family, or work challenges.
I work clinically in English, Slovak, and Czech, and can support initial conversations in French and Italian. I also encourage clients to move between languages within a session, where that supports closer contact with their experience.
FOUNDATIONS FOR MY PRACTICE:
- Honesty
- Cultural humility
- Transcultural competence
- Celebrating human diversity
- LGBTQIA+ affirmative
- Anti-racist
- Anti-capitalist
- Anti-ableist
- Embracing otherness
- Immigrant and neurodivergent-affirmative
- Bodymind attentive
- Trauma-informed
- The healing power of interpersonal connection and the collective
Training, qualifications & experience
MENTAL HEALTH
- Diploma in Gestalt Counselling (BACP Accred. Course), Gestalt Centre, UK
- Certificate in Humanistic Counselling, Gestalt Centre, UK
Introduction to Counselling, Mary Ward, UK - Trainee Therapist and Initial Assessor at the Centre for Better Health, UK
- Social Prescribing Link Worker Volunteer at Mind, UK
EARLY YEARS DEVELOPMENT
- Montessori Assistant Training (3-6), MMI, UK
- Montessori Assistant at a private childcare setting (0-3, 3-6), UK
BODYMIND AWARENESS
- Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training (200h), India
- Wat Ta Pam Wua: Vipassana, Mindfulness Practice and Breathwork, Thailand
- Volunteer at The Mindfulness Project, Thailand
I have lived in four different countries and can hold the therapeutic space bilingually in English and Slovak / Czech, and also have limited working proficiency in French, Italian, German, and Greek.
Please have a look at intherapywithradka.com for the extensive list of my qualifications if this is of interest.
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.
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
£70.00 per session
Concessions offered for
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Further information
I work in-person in Hackney or online and offer individual weekly 50-minute-long therapy. I abide by the BACP’s Ethical Framework. I’m committed to my continuous professional development and attend ongoing supervision.
Find out more about my values, intersectional identities, accessibility and the work we can embark on together at intherapywithradka.com.
I encourage you to get in touch with me via email or the contact form to enquire about my current availability. This contact could help you gauge how you feel in our written communication.
Subsequently, I offer a free non-binding 30-minute Google Meet consultation for us to e-meet and see whether we could work together. This meeting supports you in deciding whether or not I’m the right therapist for you and whether you’d like to entrust me with your therapeutic process. This is also the time when you can ask me any additional questions.
I offer short-term and open-ended therapy with regular check-ins. Growing awareness of one’s way of being, exploring patterns and different parts of you, and developing self-compassion takes time and I’d most certainly recommend at least six sessions to begin with.
The first step of the work is an initial assessment and contracting to offer you a focused and intentional space for the exploration of your issues. I strive to be as transparent as possible in how I work to offer you a clearly defined boundaried space for your therapy.
