Slavena Nikodimova
Gentle, relationship-focused counselling
About Slavena
Slavena Nikodimova helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, relationship strain or life changes. She is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with 15 years of professional experience. Her approach aims to make it easier to talk about difficult feelings and find manageable steps forward.
She offers a calm, non-judgemental space where clients can name what is troubling them. Conversations focus on what matters to each person, whether that is grief, trauma, addiction, self-esteem or issues around intimacy and body image.
Background and approach
Sessions move at a pace that suits the client and give practical ways to cope day to day. Slavena draws on attachment-based ideas and emotionally-focused work to help people understand patterns in relationships. She also uses a client-centred stance that puts the person’s own goals at the heart of therapy.
These approaches are used to help with communication problems, abandonment concerns, codependency and blended family difficulties among other areas. She has worked with people facing career uncertainty, caregiver stress, bipolar mood challenges and the practical pressures that come with serious illness. Slavena accepts international clients and runs sessions in English.
Her practice offers several session lengths and formats to fit different needs. To begin, a short matching questionnaire is used to connect a person with her, and appointments are arranged around existing commitments. Slavena encourages questions about session length or timing and will respond to enquiries about availability.
What Slavena works with
How Slavena works
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Sessions & fees
How her approaches translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationship patterns affect current bonds. Online sessions can help people recognise these patterns and practise different ways of relating to partners or family members. Client-centred counselling focuses on the person's experience and pace, offering space to be heard and make decisions about what matters most. Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT) helps people name and work with strong feelings to improve connections and reduce distress.Choosing the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to identify which methods fit a person's needs, goals and preferences. That choice can change as therapy progresses, and decisions are made together in conversation.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging to increase flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation across distance, phone sessions can use less bandwidth and suit quick check-ins, and messaging or chat can help people who prefer writing or need shorter, more frequent contact. These options make it easier to fit therapy around work, family and travel commitments while still working with registered or accredited professionals.
| 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
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating disorders
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 15 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English
