About Zhanna
Zhanna Murphy is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience and the NCPS credential. She has worked in agencies and personal settings and supports people with a wide range of concerns. Her approach aims to be practical and adaptive so clients can find what helps them in daily life.
She often begins by listening to what matters most and then suggests straightforward ways to manage stress and anxiety.
Background and approach
Zhanna uses practical exercises to help with sleeping problems, low mood and motivation. She also talks through relationship difficulties and issues around self-esteem in clear, everyday language. Her background includes work with grief, trauma from childhood, and struggles with emotional regulation.
Zhanna pays attention to how attachment patterns and past losses shape current reactions. She helps people notice unhelpful thinking and try small behavioural changes to feel steadier. Sessions aim to fit the individual rather than force a single method.
Zhanna draws on client-centred ideas to build a trusting space, and uses cognitive behavioural tools and mindfulness when helpful. She explains exercises and checks in to see what is working. People who prefer a calm, practical style often find her helpful.
Zhanna also offers support for addiction-related concerns, caregiver stress and problems that follow major life changes. She can converse in English or Russian and works with adults seeking clearer ways to cope.
How Zhanna’s approaches work online
Attachment-based work focuses on how early relationships shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can explore patterns in current relationships and help people try new ways of connecting and responding.Client-centred therapy puts the person’s goals first and uses reflective listening. This approach helps clients feel heard and decide what changes they want to make, which is useful for low mood, grief and self-esteem issues.
Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, looks at thoughts and behaviours that keep problems going. In remote sessions the therapist can teach simple exercises for worry, sleep and anger, and coach clients through practical steps to test new behaviours.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Zhanna will discuss options and tailor methods to a person’s needs, goals and preferences in a collaborative way. She checks in regularly and adjusts the plan if something isn’t helping.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and shared exercises, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or messaging suits brief check-ins or journalling between meetings. These formats make it easier to fit therapy around work, caring duties and busy days while maintaining continuity of care.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Russian
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