About Zhanna
Zhanna Murphy is a counsellor practising in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience. She holds NCPS and has worked in both agency settings and independent practice. Zhanna speaks English and Russian and supports people who are anxious, stressed, or struggling with mood and motivation.
Her day-to-day style is straightforward and warm. She listens without judgement and helps people find practical steps they can try between sessions. Conversations focus on what is happening now and what small changes might reduce worry or lift mood.
Background and approach
Zhanna uses a blend of approaches to meet different needs. She draws on client-centred work to follow each person's lead and cognitive behavioural ideas to spot unhelpful thinking patterns. Attachment-based and emotionally-focused elements are also used when relationship patterns are central to the problem.
Typical issues she addresses include anxiety, depression, grief, sleep problems and relationship concerns. She also supports people coping with trauma, addiction, low self-esteem, parenting strain and compassion fatigue. Sessions aim to build clearer perspective and stronger coping skills.
People new to therapy are guided through straightforward steps to begin. Zhanna helps set goals and agrees on simple tasks to practise between sessions. Her approach is collaborative and paced to each person's needs and readiness.
How therapeutic approaches translate to online work
Attachment-based work focuses on patterns in close relationships and how they shape feelings and reactions. Online sessions can help people spot those patterns and practise different ways of connecting and responding in everyday life.Client-centred therapy prioritises the person in the room and their experience. It involves reflective listening and supporting clients to find their own solutions, which transfers well to video or phone conversations where dialogue is central.
Finding the right approach is part of the collaborative process. The therapist will talk through goals and preferences and adapt methods based on what helps most. That conversation may lead to using one main approach or a blend tailored to the person’s needs.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is good for fuller conversation and visual cues. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and messaging allow quick check-ins and flexible exchanges between scheduled meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and other commitments.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Licensed
- Languages
- English, Russian
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