What I can help with
- Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
- Body Dysmorphic Disorder
- Social Anxiety
- Panic
- Anxiety
- Health Anxiety
- Sleep
- Trauma/PTSD
- Depression
- Self-esteem
- Perfectionism
- Personality disorders
- Relationships
- Anger
- ADHD
- Autism spectrum disorder
- Adjustment Disorder
- Long term health conditions
- Medically Unexplained Symptoms
- Women's Health
- Parenting
- Perinatal mental health
- Stress
- Grief and Bereavement
- Professional Burnout
- Coaching
Therapies offered
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
- Mindfulness Stress Reduction
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy
- Compassion Focused Therapy
- Person Centred Therapy
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Schema Therapy
- Narrative Therapy
- Solution Focused Therapy
Approach
Daria is warm and compassionate Cognitive Behaviour/ Interpersonal therapist skilled in building trusting therapeutic relationships vital for long lasting change. She works creatively and collaboratively with clients to enable them to understand the nature and persistence of their difficulties. Daria believes that effective therapy is based on clients curiosity and strengths even in strongest moments of hopelessness when she offers supportive guidance in finding a way forward and working on achieving and sustaining their goals.
Experience
With over 10 years of experience of working with adults from diverse backgrounds suffering from different types of anxiety disorders and depression, Daria has worked in different clinical settings; both as a therapist and supervisor working with complex and long standing presentations. Within the NHS she currently works as a Specialist CBT Therapist and provides consultation and supervision to peers and therapists in training. She has an in depth knowledge of assessment and treatment of: trauma (PTSD), OCD, low self esteem, health/social anxiety, adjustment disorders, stress/burn out, ADHD, perfectionism, excessive worrying, phobias and habit reversal. As an interpersonal therapist Daria is skilled in working through depression caused by losses, conflicts, transitions and changing unhelpful patterns in relating to others. She specialises in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and is trained in Metacognitive Therapy, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) and has experience in Mindfulness based approaches including Coaching.