About Ivana
Ivana Sharp is a counsellor with ten years' experience who helps people facing stress, anxiety, grief, depression and major life changes. She greets each person with an empathic, grounded style and aims to help clients feel more centred and able to cope. Her work is collaborative.
She and the client decide together what to focus on. Ivana does not hand out ready-made answers; instead she combines her knowledge with the client’s own experience to find practical ways forward.
Background and approach
Ivana uses an integrative approach that draws on humanistic and psychodynamic ideas alongside cognitive behavioural strategies and mindfulness. That flexibility lets her respond to issues such as trauma, abandonment, attachment concerns, body image and coping with chronic illness in ways that suit the person in front of her.
She also pays attention to the body-mind connection and has a particular interest in neurodiversity and ecological or climate-related stress. Her sessions can include breath-based or mindful practices alongside talking and reflective work. Ivana practised in both long-term and time-limited counselling settings and has worked as a bereavement counsellor.
She holds an Advanced Diploma in Humanistic Integrative Counselling and is a BACP member. In session she keeps clear boundaries and a steady frame so deeper work can proceed safely and at a pace that suits the client.
Approaches that translate to online care
Ivana commonly blends humanistic, psychodynamic and cognitive behavioural techniques into her work. Humanistic methods focus on understanding a person’s experience and building a trusting relationship, which helps when someone feels stuck or disconnected. Psychodynamic ideas look at patterns from past relationships and life events to make sense of repeated difficulties, useful for attachment concerns and abandonment fears. Cognitive behavioural strategies offer practical steps to manage anxiety and mood by changing unhelpful thoughts and habits.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Ivana will work with each person to agree what feels most useful, adjusting the mix of techniques as goals and needs become clearer. The aim is to find methods that fit the individual rather than forcing a single model.
Online therapy with Ivana is offered via video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging, so people can pick what suits their routine. Video sessions allow face-to-face connection, phone sessions can be easier when internet bandwidth is limited, live chat supports quicker check-ins and messaging is useful for short reflections between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, caregiving and other life demands while keeping continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
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- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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