About Dmitri
Dmitri Shirobokov is a counsellor who helps people facing anxiety, stress and problems with addiction. He offers straightforward, goal-focused sessions aimed at finding practical steps forward. Dmitri speaks English and Russian and works with clients across the United Kingdom and internationally.
He brings 14 years of experience, much of it in rehabilitation settings. That background means he is used to working with strong emotions and practical recovery challenges. He focuses on identifying a person’s needs and strengths rather than only naming problems.
Background and approach
Dmitri’s style is collaborative and down-to-earth. Sessions tend to be goal-oriented and built around what the person wants to change. He uses conversation to help people make small, manageable shifts in thinking and behaviour.
His approach draws on several methods, including client-centred work that follows the person’s pace, cognitive behavioural techniques to spot unhelpful thinking, and motivational interviewing to support change. He also uses mindfulness and existential ideas to help with meaning and coping.
People come to him for a range of concerns such as relationship strain, grief, sleep and eating issues, anger, low self-esteem, trauma, and career or life changes. Dmitri aims to create clear next steps each week so progress can be tracked. He combines practical suggestions with time to talk through feelings and choices.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Client-Centred Therapy is built around the person’s own priorities. The counsellor listens, follows what matters to the client and helps them find their own solutions; this suits people who need a space to make sense of feelings. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them with small, practical experiments; it can help with anxiety, sleep and mood by teaching clear skills and steps.Finding the right approach is part of the therapy process. Dmitri will work collaboratively to decide which methods suit a person’s needs, goals and preferences. That may mean blending techniques or adapting the pace so the work feels manageable and relevant.
Online therapy offers practical benefits for many people. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when a longer discussion is needed. Phone sessions use less bandwidth and can fit into a short break. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins or ongoing support between sessions. These options make it easier to keep continuity of care and fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Relationship issues
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Stress, Anxiety
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 14 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Russian
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