Elena Gava

Elena Gava


Registered Member MBACP

Contact information

Phone number
07539190281

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Therapist - Portsmouth

Portsmouth PO1
07539190281
Sessions from £50.00

Features

  • Flexible hours available
  • Concessionary rates

About me and my therapy practice

Hi I'm an integrative counsellor, specialising working with a range of issues including high functioning anxiety, OCD, emotional distress, work issues, perfectionism, all- or nothing thinking, confidence & self-esteem, relationship issues, people pleasing those who struggle maintain healthy boundaries, The focus, for me, is on the client’s experience of their life and potentially working through the areas that may feel stuck, due to impact of strong inner critic or guilt as a result of difficult issues maybe from childhood, or negative experience what prevent you to live a life that is more meaningful for you.


Anxiety is a feeling of unease, such as worry or fear, everyone has feelings of anxiety at some point in their life because it's a natural human response when we feel that we are under threat. It can be experienced through our thoughts, feelings and physical sensations. it's affect our lives on a daily basis. I firmly believe that every person is beautifully unique, special and has inner potential to reach high goal and be whatever they feel right, at their own pace.  I am non-judgemental and respectful, taking great care by creating a space that you feel comfortable to express yourself, explore your thoughts and feelings of what is impacting your life – to see issues through your eyes.

"You don't have to be able to see the whole staircase, just take the first step" - Martin Luther King Jr.

Practice description

I draw on a variety of approaches to provide the best experience for each individual client with a person-centred approach as foundation of my work because you know the best and me focusing on what would it be like to understand your anxiety? By brining Gestalt would help to understand how past experience impacting your present time, TA- Transactional Analysis will enhanced your understanding and build a positive relationship with self and others with element of CBT would identify the root causing of your anxiety and enable to reduce its power by reconnecting your mind with your thoughts, feelings and your physical response to those feelings so you can become a more wholesome you that you can live your life with it rather than be governed by- all this approaches only would be introduced in approapriate time following your pace to maintain ethics and safe space.

 

My first session

I am working online and by phone only at the moment.

I offer 15 min free zoom confersation where I could explain how do I work and you would able to ask any quiestions you might have.

First session is 50 min and cost £45 where we would go through legal part as contracting and looking into what brought you to the counselling session, thereafter every session 50 min long and cost is £50

Also prior our first session I would sent you core form to fil in and contract to look at also informational sheet

What I can help with

Abuse, Addictions, Anger management, Anxiety, Bereavement, Child related issues, Depression, Eating disorders, Infertility, Loss, Obsessions, OCD, Phobias, Post-traumatic stress, Pregnancy related issues, Redundancy, Relationships, Self-harm, Sex-related issues, Stress, Trauma, Work related issues

Types of therapy

Behavioural, Brief therapy, CBT, Cognitive, Gestalt, Humanistic, Integrative, Person centred, Psychoanalytic, Relational, Transactional analysis

Clients I work with

Adults, EAP, Older adults, Organisations, Trainees

How I deliver therapy

Long term sessions, Online therapy, Short term sessions, Telephone therapy, Time-limited

Languages spoken

English, Russian