About Ivana
Ivana Sharp is a counsellor with ten years' experience based in the United Kingdom. She works with people who are struggling with stress, anxiety, trauma, grief, depression and big life changes. Her manner is warm and responsive, aiming to help clients feel more centred, alive and able to make choices that suit them.
Ivana offers one-to-one work in a independent practice setting. She uses an integrative style that adapts to what each person brings.
Background and approach
Sessions can focus on a clear problem, such as anxiety, or on a more vague sense that something feels off in life. Her training blends humanistic and psychodynamic ideas with elements of cognitive behavioural work and mindfulness. Ivana also draws on body-oriented ways of noticing how physical sensations link with emotions.
This mix lets her shift the focus depending on practical needs and personal preference. She describes therapy as a collaborative process. The client’s experience and knowledge matter, and sessions are a place to try things out, reflect, and notice what changes.
Ivana keeps a steady, predictable framework for sessions so the work can go deeper when needed. Ivana has experience in grief work and in short-term counselling at a mental health charity. Her background in teaching and working with children with special educational needs informs her understanding of neurodiversity and communication differences.
She also maintains regular mindfulness practice that she brings into sessions as a tool for grounding.
How integrative approaches translate to online therapy
Ivana often combines humanistic-relational work with elements of cognitive-focused practice and mindfulness. Humanistic-relational work centres on building a genuine, attuned relationship in which a person can be heard, reflected and noticed; it helps with loneliness, grief and feeling disconnected. Cognitive techniques focus on practical skills to manage unhelpful thoughts and anxious patterns, useful for stress and anxiety. Mindfulness practices train gentle attention to breath and bodily sensations to reduce reactivity and increase calm.Finding the right combination of approaches is something she does together with each client. The therapist and client explore goals, preferences and how different techniques feel in practice, then adjust the plan as the work progresses. This collaborative process helps match methods to real needs rather than using a one-size-fits-all model.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to make therapy more flexible. Video suits deeper conversational work and exercises that use visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for those who prefer not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging are useful for brief check-ins, processing between sessions, or when typing helps someone express themselves. These options help fit therapy into busy lives and varied circumstances.
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Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hearing impaired
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Women's issues
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English
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