About Tatyana
Tatyana Sibthorpe is a counsellor with 16 years of professional experience in the United Kingdom. She works in English and Russian and supports people who are dealing with anxiety alongside other concerns. Her practice begins with listening to what matters most to each person and shaping conversations around their goals.
She has helped people facing addictions, relationship worries, trauma and abuse, career challenges, depression and stress. Tatyana also supports those coping with grief, changes in intimacy, eating and sleeping problems, parenting strains and low self-esteem.
Background and approach
She pays attention to how past losses or attachment experiences can shape present struggles. Her approach draws on several well-known therapies so she can adapt to what each client needs. She uses practical skills from cognitive behavioural approaches and emotion-focused methods to help people notice patterns and try small changes.
She also works from an acceptance and values-based perspective to help people clarify what matters and take steps towards it. Sessions are shaped around the individual rather than a single method. Tatyana explains options clearly and together they agree a plan that fits the person’s life and pace.
She aims for straightforward conversations and realistic steps people can practise between meetings. Clients can expect a respectful and compassionate tone in sessions. Tatyana frames therapy as a collaborative process and encourages people to take gradual, manageable steps towards feeling better.
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice painful thoughts without fighting them and then focus on actions that match their values. It is useful for anxiety, stress and life transitions because it encourages small committed steps rather than asking for quick fixes. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy looks at the links between thoughts, feelings and behaviours and offers practical exercises to test and change unhelpful patterns; this is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleep or eating difficulties. Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and what has or has not helped before. Together they pick methods and pace that feel manageable and useful, then review progress and adapt as needed. Online formats make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters. Phone sessions can be a simpler option if bandwidth is an issue or if someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text-based messaging are helpful for shorter check-ins, quick coping tips, or when writing feels easier than speaking. These options give flexibility while keeping the focus on practical skills and steady progress.Questions people ask
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- HIV / AIDS
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Stress, Anxiety
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Hypnotherapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Russian
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