About Tatyana
Tatyana Sibthorpe is a counsellor with 16 years of experience who uses practical, person-focused methods to help people manage worry, relationships and life changes. She works in English and Russian and brings a respectful, sensitive approach to sessions. Tatyana aims to tailor conversations and plans to each person's needs.
She helps people cope with addictions, trauma and abuse, depression, anxiety and stress. Tatyana also supports those facing grief, challenges with intimacy and self-esteem, and career or relationship difficulties.
Background and approach
Her work covers a wide range of concerns so she meets each person where they are. Tatyana draws on approaches such as Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Attachment-Based Therapy. She uses these methods to help people notice unhelpful patterns, try new ways of responding, and build practical skills for day-to-day life.
Sessions focus on clear steps and simple strategies rather than jargon. People often come for help with sleeping, eating, parenting strains, chronic illness, or compassion fatigue. Tatyana also offers support around issues like abandonment, attachment, body image and codependency.
She explains options and adapts work to what each person wants to achieve. Sessions are offered in different formats to suit modern life, including video, phone, live chat and text messaging. Tatyana encourages a collaborative process so people feel heard and can move towards more manageable routines and clearer goals.
Therapeutic approaches and online options
Tatyana commonly uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in her online work. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult thoughts and feelings and choose actions that match their values. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy focuses on spotting unhelpful thinking patterns and practising small changes that shift mood and behaviour.She also draws on Attachment-Based Therapy to look at how early relationships shape current patterns. This approach can help with intimacy, abandonment worries and repeated relationship problems by exploring connection and trust in a gentle way.
Choosing the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will talk through goals, try methods that fit your needs, and adjust the plan as you go. That collaborative process helps people find what works in practice rather than following a fixed formula.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video works well for a full session with face-to-face interaction, while phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a work break. Live chat and text messaging suit quick check-ins or when someone prefers shorter, written exchanges. These options aim to make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around daily life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Russian
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