Counsellor profile
Yana Valcheva, BACP
United Kingdom
BACP counsellor - relationships and anger
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- CredentialsBACP
- RegistrationBACP, United Kingdom / 393519
- Experience5 years
- LanguagesEnglish, Bulgarian, French
- LocationUnited Kingdom
About
- Client-Centred Therapy
- Creative expression
- Body-focused practices
About Yana
Yana Valcheva is a BACP counsellor based in the United Kingdom with five years of professional practice. She supports adults with concerns such as relationship strain, grief, parenting stress, depression, addictions, eating and body image worries, and anger. Sessions are offered in English, Bulgarian and French.
Yana uses a client-centred way of working that keeps the client’s experience central. She blends talking with creative and body-based practices drawn from her background in fine art, theatre, yoga and movement. This can help people notice how emotions show up in the body and in everyday reactions.
Her approach invites people to explore difficult feelings and old patterns without pressure. Creative exercises, breath work and simple movement can be used to express things that feel hard to put into words. These practices are described as ways to reduce tension and gain new insight.
She has experience supporting people through pregnancy and child loss, fertility challenges, postpartum depression, bereavement, self-harm, panic attacks and trauma-related issues. Yana also works with attachment and control issues, isolation, life changes and midlife concerns.
Her background includes work across Bulgaria, India, France and the UK, and she brings a mix of counselling skills and body-focused methods to sessions. People who prefer a creative frame or a focus on bodily experience may find this style helpful when dealing with anger, grief or relationship stress.
How sessions work
How her client-centred and creative methods work online
Yana works from a client-centred foundation, which means sessions focus on the client’s perspective and priorities. In practice this means setting goals together, listening closely to what matters to the person, and shaping sessions around their experience and pace. This approach helps with concerns like relationship tension, grief and low mood.She also brings creative and body-focused methods into counselling. Creative expression can help people name feelings that are hard to put into words, and simple movement or breathing practices can highlight how anger and stress show up in the body. These methods can be useful for issues linked to trauma, fertility-related distress, and eating or body image concerns.
Finding the right mix of talking, creative work and body-awareness is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to choose methods that match a client’s needs, goals and preferences, and review what is or isn’t helpful over time.
Confirm the exact session formats before booking, as options are not listed here. Online work can make it easier to fit appointments into a busy life, reduce travel time, allow shorter check-ins during a break at work, or avoid being on camera when that feels difficult. Registered or accredited professionals can adapt exercises so they work in a remote setting and to help clients manage anger and emotional overwhelm in practical ways.
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Experience
5+ years
Listed in
United Kingdom
Languages
English, Bulgarian, French
Questions
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of problems does she support?
She supports relationship issues, grief, parenting stress, depression, addictions, eating and body image concerns, anger and related difficulties such as attachment problems and control issues.
How would she approach anger in sessions?
She uses a client-centred approach that combines talking with creative and body-based practices. The focus is on noticing bodily signals, expressing frustration safely and finding practical ways to respond differently.
How much experience does she have?
She has five years of professional counselling experience and a background working in several countries, including Bulgaria, India, France and the UK.
What credentials and location are listed?
She is registered with the BACP and is based in the United Kingdom.
Which languages are supported in sessions?
Sessions are offered in English, Bulgarian and French.
Can people outside the UK work with her?
She accepts international clients.
How are sessions paid for and what does it cost?
Cost varies with location and sessions use a subscription that can be cancelled at any time.
What do I do to start a session?
Select the See online therapy options button, complete a short matching questionnaire, and schedule a first session.
Details come from information the counsellor supplied to BetterHelp. A registration can be checked with the body that issued it.
Online talk therapy is not emergency care. If anyone is unsafe, use the crisis numbers.