Krassimir Kirtchev
Short, practical support for stress and relationships
About Krassimir
Krassimir Kirtchev is an NCPS counsellor who helps people facing stress, anxiety, low self-esteem, anger and depression. He also supports those dealing with relationship strain and the ripple effects of emotional distress on everyday life. Krassimir uses a down-to-earth, practical style in sessions.
He listens carefully and aims to help people name what feels hard. He offers gentle challenge when needed and works at a pace that suits each person.
Background and approach
His background blends talking therapies with body-focused work. He holds a diploma in Counselling and Psychotherapy and a diploma in CBT/REBT, and he trained in Chrysalis UK, where he adopted an integrative approach. He combines client-centred, psychodynamic and CBT/REBT methods to respond to the person in front of him.
Alongside counselling, Krassimir is a qualified Shiatsu practitioner and remedial massage therapist. That experience means he is familiar with psychosomatic and somatopsychic issues where physical pain and emotional difficulties interact. He also has training related to back pain and musculoskeletal problems.
His professional life includes diverse work before counselling, such as military service in Bulgaria, engineering and safety-critical work in the UK. Those roles shaped his practical problem-solving and his ability to work with people from different backgrounds. Krassimir brings about 12 years of professional experience to his independent practice in the United Kingdom.
He offers sessions in English and Bulgarian and works with people who prefer a blended approach that addresses both feelings and bodily experience.
What Krassimir works with
Sessions & fees
Approaches that help with emotions and the body
Krassimir uses a blend of talking therapies to meet different needs. Client-centred work focuses on listening and building trust so people can say what matters to them and start to see options. CBT/REBT, taught as a structured way to notice and change unhelpful thoughts, is used to tackle anxiety, low mood and patterns that keep problems going.He also draws on psychodynamic ideas to look at recurring feelings and relationship patterns that cause distress. That kind of work helps when worries or anger come up again and again without an obvious trigger. The therapist will discuss which approaches seem most useful and adapt them as the work unfolds in collaboration with the client.
Online therapy here can be done by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video lets people use visual cues and fuller conversation; phone work can be easier when bandwidth is limited or for a quick check-in. Live chat and messaging suit brief updates, reflection between sessions or people who prefer not to be on camera. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit around work, caring duties and daily 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
- Relationship issues
- Anger management
Also listed
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Attachment issues
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Guilt and shame
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexual dysfunction
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Experience
- 12 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Bulgarian
