Svetlana Hodge
Person-centred counsellor for stress and life change
About Svetlana
Svetlana Hodge offers a calm, accepting space for people feeling overwhelmed by stress or anxiety. She meets each person with warmth and listens without judgement. Sessions move at the client's pace so they can speak about what matters most to them.
Svetlana follows a person-centred approach, which means she pays close attention to what a client says and reflects it back with empathy. This helps people reconnect with their own strengths and make clearer choices during hard times.
Background and approach
She uses plain language and a relational style rather than clinical labels. She commonly supports people facing depression, life changes, and parenting or family-related strains. Other areas Svetlana focuses on include abandonment and attachment issues, communication and control problems, codependency, body image, and chronic illness or pain.
She also works with concerns such as divorce and separation, domestic violence, eating and food-related issues, and blended family matters. Working relationally means Svetlana aims to build trust through honest, genuine contact. Clients can expect a steady presence and responses that reflect what they have actually said.
The work often involves talking things through, noticing patterns, and gradually trying different ways to cope. Svetlana has three years' experience and is a BACP member, practising in the United Kingdom. She speaks English, Russian and Ukrainian, and is able to work with people across different countries through online sessions.
To begin, clients complete a short questionnaire and schedule a session based on availability.
What Svetlana works with
How Svetlana works
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Sessions & fees
Person-centred approaches for online counselling
Svetlana works using a person-centred model that places the client's experience at the heart of therapy. This approach involves open listening, reflecting feelings and understanding what matters to the client, and it can help with anxiety, depression, self-worth and life transitions.In practice she aims to be relational and empathic, offering a steady presence while people talk through difficult feelings. That style supports work on attachment concerns, abandonment issues and communication problems by helping clients notice patterns and their own responses.
Deciding which approach fits best is a collaborative process. Svetlana will discuss goals and preferences with each person and adapt sessions as needed, so the therapy style aligns with what the client wants to address and how they prefer to work.
Online sessions are available by video call, phone, live chat or text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for face-to-face conversation, phone sessions are helpful when bandwidth is low, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and messaging allows ongoing reflection between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life and to choose the format that feels most comfortable.
| 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
- Family conflicts
- Parenting issues
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Post-traumatic stress
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Self-harm
- Self-love
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 3 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Russian, Ukrainian
