About Edgars
Edgars Semenovs is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom who works with people coping with anxiety and stress. He speaks English, Latvian and Russian. Edgars has six years of practice and is a BACP member, and he aims to offer a calm, steady space where someone can talk through painful memories, difficult feelings and unhelpful behaviours at their own pace.
He draws on an integrative mix of approaches to meet each person's needs.
Background and approach
That includes attachment-informed ideas, client-centred ways of listening, cognitive behavioural techniques and mindfulness practices. Sessions focus on noticing patterns in thinking and behaviour, learning ways to manage strong feelings, and building small, practical steps forward. Edgars describes his own recovery from trauma and addictions as personal motivation for counselling work.
That experience shapes his emphasis on acceptance, self-compassion and noticing one’s worth. In practice he helps clients find ways to pause, reflect and respond rather than react when life feels overwhelming. His background includes work with addiction services, mental health recovery teams, crisis teams and time as an NHS staff counsellor.
He also combines embodiment practices such as yoga, meditation and Qigong into sessions when useful to a client’s aims. People often come for help with anxiety, depression, relationship strain, grief, trauma and compulsive behaviours. Edgars invites potential clients to start with a short matching questionnaire and then schedule a first session to see if the approach feels right.
Practical therapy approaches for online work
Edgars uses client-centred listening to prioritise what matters most to the person in front of him. This approach focuses on empathic listening, helping people feel heard and guiding them to find their own answers. Cognitive behavioural therapy offers clear, hands-on techniques for spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new behaviours to reduce anxiety and improve mood.Finding the right approach is part of the work. He collaborates with clients to decide which methods fit their needs and goals. That might mean trying mindfulness exercises for calm, using CBT tools for anxious thinking, or drawing on attachment ideas to understand relationship patterns. The plan is reviewed and adjusted together as therapy progresses.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, phone sessions can be simpler when bandwidth is low, live chat suits shorter check-ins and text messaging works for ongoing reflection between sessions. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and to maintain continuity when travel or work makes in-person visits difficult.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Latvian, Russian
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