Tatyana Sibthorpe, BACP

Tatyana Sibthorpe is a counsellor with 16 years of experience who uses a practical, person-centred style. She aims to make the first step into therapy feel manageable and supportive. Tatyana speaks English and Russian and works with people across the United Kingdom and internationally.

She draws on several approaches to suit each person's needs, including cognitive behavioural ideas and acceptance-based methods. In sessions she listens closely, asks clear questions, and helps clients notice patterns that keep them stuck. The work is collaborative and paced to match what someone can manage right now.

Tatyana often helps people facing relationship strain, addictions, trauma and abuse, and career-related stress. She also supports those dealing with depression, anxiety, grief, intimacy concerns and changes in life circumstances. Additional focus areas include attachment worries, body image, caregiving stress and chronic health challenges.

Her way of working is straightforward. She and the client agree on goals, try practical strategies between sessions, and review what is or is not helping. Sessions tend to focus on building skills to cope, improving communication, and making values-based choices.

Tatyana describes her role as supportive and respectful. She tailors conversations and plans to each person’s situation. To begin, clients use the continue button on this profile, complete a short matching questionnaire and then schedule according to availability.

How her approaches translate to online therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people clarify what matters to them and take small steps toward those values while learning to sit with difficult thoughts. It is often used for anxiety, depression and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, CBT, focuses on how thoughts, feelings and behaviours interact and offers practical tools to change unhelpful patterns and improve mood or sleep. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns formed in close relationships and helps people repair or reshape those patterns to feel more at ease in connections.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with clients about goals, try different techniques and decide together which methods fit best. That collaborative process helps shape the plan as needs and preferences become clearer.

If you are considering online therapy, check the available session options before booking to confirm current formats. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy week, reduce travel time and allow shorter check-ins when that suits a schedule. It can also let people use video or phone in ways that match their comfort and technical needs. Registered or accredited professionals aim to adapt the methods above so exercises, homework and real-time skill practice still work when therapy happens remotely.