About Petra
Petra Alena Todorov draws on psychodynamic, trauma-focused and systemic approaches to help people manage anxiety and stress. She works with adults on relationship strains, grief, self-esteem and life transitions. Petra speaks English and Romanian and brings eight years of clinical experience to her work.
Petra keeps sessions grounded and practical. She listens for patterns that repeat in relationships and in how people relate to themselves. This helps to name unhelpful cycles so clients can try new ways of responding.
Background and approach
Sessions may include reflecting on past experiences, noticing present feelings, and practising different choices. Her trauma-focused work offers ways to slow down when memories or strong emotions feel overwhelming. This can make intense feelings easier to sit with and to understand.
Systemic ideas help map how family history, culture, and current relationships shape what someone notices and how they cope. Petra also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, caregiver stress, codependency and communication problems. She works with separation, infidelity, immigration-related strain, and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
The aim is to build stronger emotional awareness and more effective ways of connecting. Sessions are delivered online through video, phone, live chat or text messaging. Petra helps clients set practical goals and looks for steps that fit each person’s life.
She uses a collaborative style so people feel involved in planning their next steps.
How Petra’s approaches work online
Psychodynamic work focuses on recurring patterns and feelings that come from earlier relationships. Online sessions use conversation to notice these patterns and to try different ways of relating in daily life. This approach can help with anxiety, relationship struggles and repeated emotional responses.Trauma-focused work offers ways to manage strong memories and overwhelming emotions. In practical online sessions this can mean slowing the pace, learning grounding skills and making safe, gradual changes so difficult memories feel less disruptive.
Systemic ideas look at how family, culture and current relationships shape experience. Even in single-person sessions the therapist maps interaction patterns and helps people test different responses with those around them.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Petra collaborates with clients to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. She checks in about what is helpful and adapts the approach as therapy progresses.
Online formats offer flexibility and practical benefits. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and work well for short check-ins. Live chat or text messaging suit people who prefer typing, need brief daily support, or want more flexibility during busy days. Together these options make it easier to fit therapy into everyday life.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Romanian
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