Edgars Semenovs
Compassionate counsellor for trauma and addiction recovery
About Edgars
Edgars Semenovs makes space for people who feel overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, addiction, grief or life changes. He welcomes honest talk about difficult memories, painful relationships and struggles with mood or self-worth. Sessions are simple and steady, paced to what someone can manage right now.
Edgars speaks English, Latvian and Russian and works with people in the United Kingdom and internationally. He uses a mix of practical and reflective methods to help people notice how patterns affect their daily life.
Background and approach
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy helps spot unhelpful thoughts and change routine reactions. Client-centred work focuses on listening and acceptance so a person can find their own solutions. Attachment-based ideas look at how early relationships shape current trust and closeness.
Edgars draws on six years of direct counselling experience and holds a BACP membership. He has worked in mental health recovery services, hospitals and crisis teams, and has experience supporting people with alcohol, drug and pornography addictions. He has also worked as an NHS staff counsellor.
His personal experience with trauma and addiction informs his approach. That background shapes a belief in the healing capacity everyone holds when the right conditions are present. He uses mindfulness, gentle body awareness and acceptance practices alongside talking therapy.
Practical details are straightforward. Sessions can happen by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Costs vary by location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
To begin, select the Start Therapy button, complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a session according to the therapist's availability.
What Edgars works with
How Edgars works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that translate well to online therapy
Edgars uses Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to help people notice and change thoughts and habits that keep problems going. CBT often focuses on small, practical steps and can be well suited to video or messaging work where homework and tracking are easy to share.He also works in a client-centred way that places the person’s experience at the heart of sessions. This means the focus is on listening, acceptance and helping someone find their own answers rather than following a fixed plan. Attachment-based ideas are used to understand how early relationships affect current trust and closeness and to build steadier ways of relating.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the person about goals, preferences and what feels most helpful, and they will adjust methods as the work progresses. People often begin with one way of working and shift as their needs change.
Online therapy offers flexibility and practical advantages. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation when that matters, phone sessions are useful when bandwidth is limited, and live chat or text messaging can fit short check-ins or times when writing feels easier. These options make it simpler to keep therapy going around work, family or travel commitments and to try different session lengths and formats to suit everyday life.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
|---|---|
| Client ages | Adults, 18 and over |
| Fees | Subscription via BetterHelp, cancel anytime |
| Insurance | Not billed directly |
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Areas of focus
What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Addictions
- Relationship issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Family conflicts
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Phobias
- Post-traumatic stress
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 6 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Latvian, Russian
