Yana Valcheva
Gentle creative counselling with body awareness
About Yana
Yana Valcheva helps people facing relationship strain, trauma and abuse, grief and parenting challenges. She also supports those dealing with depression, addictions, intimacy concerns, eating and body-image issues, anger, low self-esteem and major life changes. Yana works in English, Bulgarian and French and practices in the United Kingdom.
Her style is gentle and creative. Sessions centre on what the person brings and follow their pace. She encourages people to notice sensations in the body and to use simple creative tools when words are not enough.
Background and approach
Conversations aim to help someone find their own resources and build confidence. Yana trained in therapeutic counselling and holds a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling. She is registered with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, BACP.
Before counselling she studied fine art and theatre and later trained in a range of body-based practices including yoga, dance and bioenergetics. Her background includes work as a holistic therapist, meditation teacher and doula across Bulgaria, India, France and the UK. She has supported people with anxiety, pregnancy and child loss, infertility, bereavement, self-harm and eating disorders among other issues.
Her varied experience shapes a practical, embodied approach. In sessions people can expect a mix of talking, guided body-oriented noticing and creative tasks when helpful. She offers space to explore feelings, make sense of painful events and try new ways of coping.
The focus is on small, manageable steps toward feeling steadier and more grounded.
What Yana works with
How Yana works
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Sessions & fees
Client-centred and body-aware approaches for online care
Client-Centred Therapy places the person and their experience at the centre of sessions. It focuses on listening, empathy and responding to what the client needs in the moment, which can help with relationship problems, low self-esteem and life changes.Yana also brings body-oriented work into sessions by inviting people to notice sensations and movement. This kind of approach can support those dealing with trauma, panic and grief by offering another way to process feelings when words alone do not feel enough.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. She will discuss what feels most useful and adapt methods to match each person's goals and preferences. This collaboration helps shape a plan that fits the individual's pace and needs.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls allow face-to-face conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth or a shorter check-in is needed. Live chat and text-based messaging suit people who prefer writing, need to fit sessions around busy days, or want a less direct format. These options make it easier to keep continuity and access support from different locations.
| 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
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Grief
Also listed
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Eating and food-related issues
- Eating disorders
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- LGBT
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Registered with
- BACP
- Languages
- English, Bulgarian, French
