Yana Valcheva

Yana Valcheva is a counsellor who supports people facing relationship strain, grief, depression and separation. She also helps with trauma and abuse, parenting stress, intimacy questions, eating and body-image concerns, and addictions. Sessions aim to help people build confidence and draw on their own inner resources.

She keeps sessions client-led and uses creativity and body awareness as part of the work. Conversations are practical and grounded, with space for creative exercises when they feel useful. Yana encourages people to find ways of being with themselves that feel kinder and more centred.

Yana trained initially in fine art and theatre and has worked in several countries as a holistic therapist and meditation teacher since 2001. Her professional counselling qualification is a Diploma in Therapeutic Counselling and she holds BACP registration. She has experience supporting people through bereavement, pregnancy and child loss, infertility, self-harm, anxiety and eating difficulties.

Her practice includes body-informed approaches such as breath, movement and massage-based methods alongside talking therapies. She explains techniques simply and helps people notice how bodily feelings relate to choices and emotions. Creative tasks, symbolic images and movement can be used to release tension and gain fresh perspective.

Yana also offers work focused on fertility and women’s embodied experiences, including abdominal massage and group work. She combines these interests with counselling to support decision-making, mourning, recovery and rebuilding a sense of safety after distress.

Sessions are offered in English, Bulgarian and French and she works with adults and young people who want to explore change and healing.

How client-centred and body-aware approaches work online

Client-Centred Therapy focuses on listening, empathy and helping people find their own answers. The counsellor offers a non-judgemental presence and reflects what you say so you can notice choices and feelings more clearly. This approach is useful for relationship issues, low mood and coping with life changes.

Yana also brings a body-aware emphasis into sessions, inviting attention to sensations, breath and movement as information. These simple practices help people connect feeling and thought, which can aid decisions and reduce overwhelm. Creative exercises can be adapted to a reflective, talk-based format when needed.

Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The counsellor will discuss goals and preferences and try different ways of working to see what fits. This is collaborative so you can shape what happens and pause or change direction as needed.

The biography does not list specific online session formats, so please confirm the available options before booking. Online work can make it easier to fit sessions into a busy life, save travel time and allow shorter check-ins when schedules demand. It can also let people use creative tasks in ways that suit them, such as drawing or guided movement between sessions.