Yana Valcheva , BACP

Yana Valcheva is a fully qualified counsellor whose practice is guided by the people she works with and by a strong belief in creative expression and the wisdom of the body. She creates a space for adults and young people to talk, explore and develop a kinder relationship with themselves, using talk alongside a range of creative and body-centered techniques to help clients access inner resources and build confidence.

She brings experience supporting clients with anxiety, pregnancy and child loss, infertility, depression, bereavement, self-harm and eating disorders, among other concerns. Her background in fine art and theatre informs an approach that values symbolic expression, art and play as ways to name feelings that may not fit easily into words. Creative methods are presented as tools for insight, tension release and emotional processing that can benefit both young people and adults.

Yana trained and worked internationally as a holistic therapist and meditation teacher in Bulgaria, India, France and the United Kingdom. Her training includes body-based disciplines such as dance, yoga, active meditation, bioenergetics and massage, which inform a practice that attends to felt experience and bodily sensation as part of therapeutic work. She also works with women around fertility, pregnancy and postnatal issues, offering doula-informed support, women circles and abdominal sacral massage to help clients reconnect with their bodies and reproductive experiences.

Her formal qualifications include a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and an MA in Fine Arts, and she holds membership of the BACP - the professional body for counsellors and psychotherapists in the UK. This combination of counselling training, creative arts and body-based modalities shapes a client-centered practice focused on gentle exploration and practical support.

Client-centered and body-focused approaches for online support

Client-centered therapy places the client's experience at the heart of the work. In this approach the therapist offers empathic listening, acceptance and collaborative reflection so clients can explore values, choices and emotional responses - a method that is helpful for relationship issues, low mood and life transitions.

Creative and body-focused techniques draw on art, movement and somatic awareness to help people express feelings that are hard to put into words and to reconnect with bodily signals. These approaches can be especially useful when working with trauma, grief, fertility-related concerns and difficulties tied to body image or chronic stress.

Choosing an approach is part of the therapeutic process rather than a fixed decision. Yana works collaboratively with each person to identify which combination of client-centered conversation, creative work and gentle body-based practices will best match their needs, goals and preferences.

Online therapy using video calls, phone sessions, live chat or text messaging brings this blend of approaches into a flexible, accessible format. It allows appointments to fit around work, family and travel, makes cross-border work with licensed professionals possible, and supports ongoing momentum through a mix of synchronous and asynchronous contact with therapists.