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Adjustment difficulties
Alcohol misuse
Alexithymia
Anger Management
Anorexia nervosa (AN) - purging subtype
Anorexia nervosa (AN) - restrictive subtype
Anxiety
Anxious personality disorder
Bipolar spectrum disorders
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
Bulimia nervosa (BN)
Career development
Chronic fatigue
Chronic pain
Coaching
Complex PTSD
Compulsive sexual behaviour
Confidence
Coping with a long-term health condition
Coping with an acute health condition
Dependent personality disorder
Depression
Dissocial (antisocial) personality disorder
Emetophobia (vomit phobia)
Emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD)
End of relationship difficulties
Family difficulties
Gaming disorder
General wellness
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
Grief
Health anxiety
Histrionic personality disorder
Insomnia
Job challenges
Maternity
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Neurodiversity
Obsessive compulsive (anankastic) personality disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Opioid misuse
Other addiction
Other eating disorder
Other perinatal mental health condition
Other substance use disorder
Panic disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Parenting
Perinatal OCD
Perinatal anxiety
Perinatal depression
Perinatal mood disorders
Personality disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Prolonged grief
Psychosexual difficulties
Relationships
Schizoid personality disorder
Sedative or anxiolytic misuse
Self-esteem
Sexual health
Sleep difficulties
Social phobia
Stress
Stress management
Tic disorders
Tourette syndrome
Trauma (general)
Women's health
Ms
Olga Garmas
 
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Counselling Psychologist
BSc, MSCP, PG Dip CBT

Olga is a Counselling Psychologist, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapist and EMDR Therapist. She has over 10 years' experience counselling patients with a wide range of psychological difficulties.

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Axa
BUPA Global
BUPA
Aviva
Vitality
WPA
Cigna
Allianz
Zurich
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About me

Olga gets a great deal of satisfaction from working with the entire range of much varied presenting problems, assessing the different individual needs and providing alternative ways to help discover the most suitable paths for clients to take, in order to help them overcome their difficulties and to achieve their potential. Olga has over 10 years' experience of working in a variety of mental health settings such as educational, voluntary, private and NHS. This has involved short, medium and long-term CBT and counselling for a wide range of psychological problems. Most recently, Olga has worked as a CBT Therapist and Supervisor within a Primary Care Psychological Therapy service (NHS) in London, assessing and treating patients with various emotional difficulties including depression and anxiety disorders. Olga’s areas of interest include anxiety disorders such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder, generalised anxiety disorder, social anxiety, phobias, health anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder and also eating disorders. Olga also has a special interest in working with trauma and self-esteem/confidence issues helping clients to change their self-defeating behavioural patterns and thinking styles. Other psychological and emotional difficulties that Olga has worked extensively are low mood, stress, loss of direction, life transitions, bereavement, substance misuse and trichotillomania.

Area I can help with

Adjustment difficulties
Alcohol misuse
Alexithymia
Anger Management
Anorexia nervosa (AN) - purging subtype
Anorexia nervosa (AN) - restrictive subtype
Anxiety
Anxious personality disorder
Bipolar spectrum disorders
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
Bulimia nervosa (BN)
Career development
Chronic fatigue
Chronic pain
Coaching
Complex PTSD
Compulsive sexual behaviour
Confidence
Coping with a long-term health condition
Coping with an acute health condition
Dependent personality disorder
Depression
Dissocial (antisocial) personality disorder
Emetophobia (vomit phobia)
Emotionally unstable personality disorder (EUPD)
End of relationship difficulties
Family difficulties
Gaming disorder
General wellness
Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
Grief
Health anxiety
Histrionic personality disorder
Insomnia
Job challenges
Maternity
Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Neurodiversity
Obsessive compulsive (anankastic) personality disorder
Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
Opioid misuse
Other addiction
Other eating disorder
Other perinatal mental health condition
Other substance use disorder
Panic disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Parenting
Perinatal OCD
Perinatal anxiety
Perinatal depression
Perinatal mood disorders
Personality disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Prolonged grief
Psychosexual difficulties
Relationships
Schizoid personality disorder
Sedative or anxiolytic misuse
Self-esteem
Sexual health
Sleep difficulties
Social phobia
Stress
Stress management
Tic disorders
Tourette syndrome
Trauma (general)
Women's health

Types of therapy I offer

Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

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