Zhanna Murphy
Practical, adaptable counselling for emotional strain
About Zhanna
Zhanna Murphy is a counsellor based in the United Kingdom with four years of professional experience. She works in English and Russian and has worked in both agency settings and independent practice. Zhanna helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, low mood or changes in their relationships.
She supports people facing grief, difficulties with emotional regulation, and the impact of childhood trauma. Zhanna also addresses concerns such as addictions, body image, sleeping problems, parenting strain and compassion fatigue.
Background and approach
She often helps with communication problems, feeling empty or struggling after separation. Her work draws on a few main approaches so sessions are practical and tailored. Zhanna uses attachment-based ideas to look at patterns in close relationships and how early connections shape current worries.
She also uses client-centred methods that place the person’s experience at the heart of the conversation. Cognitive behavioural techniques are used when people want tools to manage upsetting thoughts and behaviours. Mindfulness strategies are offered to help with stress, sleep and calming intense feelings.
Emotionally-focused ideas are brought in when relationship patterns and intimacy issues are the main concern. Zhanna describes her practice as adaptable. She aims to find what works for each person rather than using one fixed method.
To begin, a simple matching process helps pair someone with her for appointments that suit their schedule.
What Zhanna works with
How Zhanna works
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Sessions & fees
Approaches that translate to online therapy
Attachment-based work looks at how early relationships shape patterns today. It helps people who notice repeating problems in close relationships and want to understand why those patterns keep happening. Client-centred therapy focuses on the person's experience in the room and aims to build acceptance, empathy and clearer self-understanding. This approach can be helpful when someone needs space to talk and be heard without pressure. Cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT, teaches practical skills to change unhelpful thoughts and behaviours and is often used for anxiety, low mood and sleeping difficulties.Finding the right approach is something to do together. Zhanna will discuss goals, preferences and what feels most useful, then adjust methods over time. That collaborative process helps pick techniques that match the issue and the person's style of working.
Online sessions offer a range of formats including video calls, phone sessions, live chat and text-based messaging. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and seeing non-verbal cues, phone sessions can fit into a short break and use less bandwidth, live chat is handy for quick check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect between sessions. These options make it easier to schedule therapy around work, family and daily life while keeping therapy focused on practical change and emotional understanding.
| Session length | Typically 50 minutes |
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| 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
- Self esteem
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Codependency
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Emptiness
- Family conflicts
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 4 years
- Registered with
- NCPS
- Languages
- English, Russian
