Petra Alena Todorov
Insightful psychodynamic and trauma-informed counsellor
About Petra
Petra Alena Todorov uses psychodynamic, trauma-focused and systemic approaches to help people navigate stress and relationship strain. She aims to make therapy straightforward and practical. Petra speaks English and Romanian and works from the United Kingdom.
She holds BACP, which reflects a professional counselling accreditation. Petra focuses on anxiety, stress, grief, self-esteem and relationship concerns. She also supports people dealing with abandonment, attachment issues, infidelity and separation.
Other areas she helps with include codependency, caregiver stress, communication problems and feelings of emptiness or isolation.
Background and approach
In sessions Petra listens for patterns that repeat across relationships and life stages. She uses psychodynamic ideas to help people understand how past experiences shape present feelings. Trauma-focused tools are drawn on when past hurts continue to affect daily life.
Systemic thinking helps Petra map how family dynamics, blended family situations or immigration experiences influence current problems. She keeps language plain and works collaboratively to set practical goals. Sessions can include short coaching-style tasks when helpful.
Her eight years of clinical experience inform a direct yet empathetic style. Petra adapts her approach to each person’s needs and combines talking, reflection and manageable exercises. The aim is to reduce worry, improve communication and increase emotional resilience.
People who prefer therapy in Romanian can work with her in that language. Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. The process begins with a short matching questionnaire and scheduling according to availability.
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Sessions & fees
How psychodynamic, trauma-focused and systemic work online
Psychodynamic therapy looks at patterns that repeat across relationships and time. Online sessions can help people notice how childhood or past relationships affect current feelings and choices. This approach is useful for persistent anxiety, low self-esteem and recurring relationship problems.Trauma-focused therapy concentrates on the impact of past hurt on present reactions. In an online setting this can involve paced conversations and grounding techniques to reduce overwhelming responses. It is often chosen for people who find past events still influencing daily life.
Systemic therapy examines how interactions with others shape problems. It helps map family dynamics, blended family challenges and the ripple effects of immigration or caregiving stress. Working this way can clarify where change is most helpful.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. Petra will discuss goals, preferences and how symptoms show up to decide what to try first. She treats the choice as collaborative and may combine elements from different approaches as therapy progresses.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversational work while phone sessions use less bandwidth. Live chat and text messaging offer brief check-ins or ongoing reflection between calls, making therapy easier to fit around work and family commitments.
| 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
- Grief
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Dependent personality
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 8 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Romanian
