Dr Natalia Solovieva, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
“Therapy serves as a refuge, allowing you to improve your relationship with yourself and others, while also fostering a sense of freedom and choice in your life and relationships.”
Natalia Solovieva, Chartered Counselling Psychologist and Psychodynamic Psychotherapist registered with BPS and BACP. She is an accredited psychotherapist registered with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) and holds a Doctorate in Counselling Psychology.
Natalia specialises in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis. She has over 20 years’ experience working in the NHS, voluntary and private sectors, and practicing in the UK and abroad. She has worked extensively with people presenting with moderate and severe mental health conditions.
Natalia has devoted her professional life to specialising in psychoanalytic/psychodynamic psychotherapy. She has completed several formal trainings in this approach and dedicated 25 years of her work to building expertise in this way of working with individuals and couples.
“Psychoanalytical or psychodynamic psychotherapy helps people understand themselves and others better. The underlying premise of this approach is that we become who we are in relationships with others. I believe this approach is powerful in addressing relationship issues with oneself, loved ones, friends, colleagues, and people in general. Individuals who benefit from this approach often seek therapy when they feel stuck in their lives, are not fulfilling what they believe is their potential, or experience a sense of emptiness and inability to move forward. This therapeutic method assists in overcoming relationship problems, career blocks, and feelings of directionlessness. Although psychodynamic work requires mid to long-term engagement in therapy, it ultimately fosters freedom from maladaptive behaviours, enhances flexibility, and improves relationships with oneself and others over time.” Dr Natalia Sovlieva
Some of the issues Natalia specialises with are as follows:
- relationship difficulties
- eating disorders
- depression
- anxiety
- sexuality
- infertility
- trauma / PTSD
- sexual and emotional abuse
- personality disorders and psychosis (schizophrenia)
- obsessive compulsive disorder
- identity
- sleep disorders or concerns
- addiction
Couples therapy:
Couples who benefit from this therapy typically present with similar difficulties. They can also seek help with volatile and insensate arguing, feeling distant, not being able to communicate their thoughts and feelings in a helpful and productive way, having shared traumatic experiences like affairs, loss of job, going through transitional periods in life like moving countries, trying to have children, changing jobs, retiring or becoming unwell. Psychodynamic couple therapy can help to think together about what is going on and to make links to patterns of relating that will have started when both partners were very young, perhaps replicating or rejecting aspects of life in their families of origin. It can help to clarify why partners feel under stress or why communication has broken down and develop or restore ways of understanding and appreciating each other.
Natalia has carried out and published several research projects into areas of borderline personality disorder, sexual deviations, complexities of the therapeutic relationships and issues of female infertility. Her doctorate thesis was dedicated to group psychotherapy for patients suffering from psychosis. Following a completion of Diploma in Reflective Practice in Organisations she currently offers reflective practice and consultancy to teams and organisations in business, voluntary and NHS sectors.
Membership and Accreditations:
She works with health insurances:
Chartered Psychologist Bloomsbury Central London
HARVEST THERAPY
44 Russell Square,
London WC1B 4JP
United Kingdom
Phone Number:
020 8962 6247
email: info@harvest-therapy.co.uk
