About Phaidra-Polyxeni
Phaidra-Polyxeni (Xenia) Kaspar offers calm, straightforward support for people facing fear, anxiety and life changes. She introduces practical steps and listens carefully to what matters most. Her approach aims to make each session feel manageable and focused on real-life problems.
Xenia draws on a range of therapeutic styles to suit different needs. She uses acceptance and commitment ideas to help people notice difficult thoughts without being controlled by them. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used to spot unhelpful thinking and try new behaviours.
Background and approach
Attachment-based thinking shapes how she looks at close relationships and their impact on wellbeing. Sessions follow a person-centred tone so people feel heard and respected while making changes at their own pace. She also has experience with dialectical behaviour approaches and with hypnotherapy methods.
Her background includes registration as NCPS, and she practises from the United Kingdom. Xenia has three years of professional experience and speaks English, German and Greek. She also draws on personal experience of grief and neurodiversity to inform a compassionate stance.
Work usually focuses on stress, anxiety, phobias, relationship and intimacy concerns, trauma and abuse, grief, depression and related issues. Practical goals might include better sleep, managing anger, improving communication or coping with career and parenting strains. She aims to tailor sessions to each person and to work collaboratively toward realistic steps.
Starting therapy can feel daunting and Xenia seeks to make the process straightforward. She emphasises small, steady changes rather than sudden fixes, and supports people as they try new ways of coping.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice uncomfortable thoughts and feelings and focus on actions tied to their values. It can be useful for anxiety, phobias and coping with major life changes by teaching gentle acceptance and committed action. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thinking patterns and testing new behaviours through small experiments. This approach often helps with anxiety, sleep problems and low mood by giving concrete tools to try between sessions.Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with each person about goals and preferences and then choose techniques that suit them. That process is collaborative and can change over time as needs shift.
Online sessions are offered by video, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to provide flexibility. Video calls make it easier to use visual tools and practise skills in real time. Phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Messaging or live chat can fit short check-ins, ongoing support between sessions or times when writing feels most helpful. Together these options make it simpler to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while still accessing therapists and registered or accredited professionals.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, German, Greek
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