Zhanna Murphy, NCPS

Zhanna Murphy is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience. She has worked in both agency settings and independent practice, helping people who come with a wide range of problems. She communicates in English and Russian and holds the NCPS credential.

Her work often involves stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, relationship concerns and depression. She also helps people coping with grief, childhood trauma, challenges with emotional regulation and motivation. Intimacy-related issues, addictions and sleep difficulties are also within her practice focus.

Zhanna uses a flexible, integrative approach and adjusts methods to suit each person. In sessions she draws from client-centred listening to make people feel heard. She may use cognitive behavioural ideas to identify unhelpful thinking patterns and practical steps to change them.

Attachment-based ideas and emotionally focused techniques are available when exploring relationship patterns and strong feelings. Mindfulness practices are used to help people manage stress and notice thoughts without reacting to them.

People who choose Zhanna tend to want straightforward, practical conversations and help building day-to-day skills. She invites clients to work together to set clear goals and to try approaches that fit their life and pace.

How her approaches guide online conversations

Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect feelings and expectations now. It helps when people notice repeated behaviours in close relationships and want to try different ways of relating. Client-centred therapy focuses on listening and understanding; the counsellor follows the person's lead and helps them find their own solutions. Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) notices the links between thoughts, feelings and actions and offers simple steps to test and change unhelpful patterns.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. Zhanna will discuss goals and preferences and the two of you will choose methods that feel useful. She adapts methods over time, so initial sessions can be a chance to try what fits best.

The profile does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm which options are available before booking. Many people find online work helps fit therapy into busy lives - it can save travel time, make short check-ins easier to schedule and allow sessions from a quieter space. Online work can also make it simpler to use practical tools between sessions, such as written exercises, behavioural experiments and mindfulness practices guided by the counsellor.