About Krassimir
Krassimir Kirtchev is a counsellor who helps people manage stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger and depression. He works with clients who are coping with relationship strains and related life pressures. Krassimir speaks English and Bulgarian and practises from the United Kingdom.
He trained in counselling and psychotherapy at Chrysalis in the UK and holds a Diploma in Counselling & Psychotherapy. He also gained a Diploma in CBT/REBT from the College of Cognitive Behavioural Therapies and lists NCPS as a credential.
Background and approach
Krassimir combines a few therapeutic ideas to respond to each person's situation. Krassimir uses a mix of client-centred listening, psychodynamic thinking and cognitive approaches. That mix is used to notice feelings, patterns and unhelpful thoughts.
Sessions aim to make small, practical changes people can use between meetings. Alongside talking therapy, he has training in Shiatsu and remedial massage and works with people who have psychosomatic or somatopsychic symptoms. He also has experience helping with musculoskeletal and back pain related to physical strain, when those physical problems are tied up with emotional stress.
Before counselling he spent many years in practical roles including military service, engineering and safety-critical work. He draws on that varied background to relate to people from different walks of life. His style is down-to-earth and focused on finding what helps someone feel steadier and more able to cope.
Approaches that can help online
Krassimir draws on cognitive methods and client-centred listening to help people understand and shift patterns that feed anxiety and low mood. Cognitive approaches focus on spotting unhelpful thoughts and testing new ways of thinking and behaving to reduce worry and improve daily functioning. Client-centred work puts the person's experience at the heart of the session and aims to build calm through attentive listening and reflection.He also brings psychodynamic ideas into online meetings to look at repeating relationship patterns and early influences that affect current responses. That work can help people make sense of why they react in particular ways and choose different responses over time. Together the therapist and client decide which approach to emphasise based on needs, goals and preferences in a collaborative way.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls are useful for a face-to-face feel and fuller interaction. Phone sessions can be shorter check-ins or better when bandwidth is limited. Live chat and text-based messaging suit quick updates, daytime check-ins or people who prefer not to use video. These options make it easier to fit sessions into work, travel or busy family life while keeping the focus on progress and workable change.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Bulgarian
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